Random Real Life Soldiers That Were Like Captain America (15 items)

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  (#1) Audie Murphy

  • Dec. at 46 (1925-1971)

  Audie Murphy was a dude with some serious anger issues, thank Jebus there was a war on. First, in 1944, he and a friend were blindsided by a German machine gun crew and he killed literally everyone in the crew after they shot his friend. Then, at the battle of Colmar Pocket, he took to an M-10 tank that was on fire to defend a trench with a .50 caliber machine gun. He was quickly awarded ALL the medals. 
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  (#2) Ben L. Salomon

  • Dec. at 30 (1914-1944)

  After rising to the rank of Captain as an Army dentist, Salomon was sent to Saipan in the Pacific Theater, where he served as an impromptu regimental surgeon to the troops. While treating the wounded, his camp was invaded by Japanese troops. Salomon shot two of the soldiers outright, kicked a knife out of another's hands, and headbutted the last into submission. He then ordered all of the wounded out of the tent and covered them with suppressive fire from a machine gun that he found. His body was found the next day surrounded by 100 Japanese troops!!!
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  (#3) Henry Lincoln Johnson

  • Dec. at 32 (1897-1929)

  On the night of May 14, 1918, Johnson and fellow soldier were on the midnight to 4 a.m. patrol on the front lines when they were bombarded by a German raiding party. When his friend was wounded by the raiding party, and his gun jammed, he fended off the Jerries with his bolo knife for nearly an hour before reinforcements arrived - earning him the name "The Black Death."
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  (#4) Alvin York

  Alvin York was a pacifist from rural Tennessee when he was drafted in WWI. On a patrol of a fortified machine gun guarding a German railroad he singlehandedly killed close to 20 men before shooting four more with a hand gun and taking the next 133 men (!!) hostage.
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  (#5) Corporal Samuel Toloza

  On a routine mission in Iraq, Corporal Toloza and his buddies were surrounded by Iraqi gunmen and they quickly ran out of ammunition. It was at that point that Toloza decided that he might as well charge the gunmen with his pocket knife and FIGHT THEM OFF until a counterattack could rescue Toloza and his men. 
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  (#6) Michael J. Fitzmaurice

  A specialist fourth class in the US Army, he'd just returned from guard duty and was settling in to his bunker when the base came under heavy artillery and mortar fire. As his base was being blown to bits by Vietnamese Suicide Bombers, three grenades landed in his bunker. He grabbed two of the grenades and tossed them back outside, and jumped on the third one and covered it with his flak jacket. Suffering only partial blindness and deafness, he took out the rage of still being alive by beating the Vietnamese to death with his bare hands. 
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  (#7) Jay Zeamer, Jr.

  • Dec. at 89 (1918-2007)

  Jay Zeamer was the pilot for the crew of the Old 666, a B-17 that was loaded to the teeth with machine guns. On a recon mission over Japan, the 666 encountered 17 Japanese fighter planes and what ensued was a 45 minute dog fight that would make George Lucas foam at the mouth. Zeamer ended up taking shrapnel through his arms, legs, and wrists (all of the things he needed for flying) before flying the 666 another 600 miles and landing it safely. 
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  (#8) Anthony Kaho'ohanohano

  Kaho'ohanohano was fighting in the Korean War when his platoon began retreating and he decided to stop an entire army from chasing them down. Obvi he decided to use ALL THE GUNS, but eventually he settled on his trusty shovel. Eventually his body was found surrounded by the 13 men that he beat to death before finally succumbing to his fatal wounds. 
   
  Umm...you guys, why isn't there a movie about Anthony Kaho'ohanohano starring The Rock? Are you even reading this, Hollywood?
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  (#9) Stephen "Turbo" Toboz

  Navy SEALS are notoriously tough with capital TUFF so it's no surprise that one of them ended up on this list. While on a mission to rescue a soldier behind enemy lines, Turbo's helicopter was shot down and he took a bullet to the leg before spending the next 18 hours covering his teammates in NEGATIVE 20 DEGREE WEATHER. The only reason he survived was because the temperature froze his wounds. If that's not a sign of an overactive healing factor we don't know what is. 
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  (#10) Benjamin F. Wilson

  • Dec. at 66 (1922-1988)

  During the Korean War, Ben Wilson was a WWII vet who wanted so badly to get back to action that he re-enlisted as a private. He quickly rose through the ranks again to lead a charge of a battle called Hell Hill that was probably very laid back. He sustained a wound to his leg and after he  was carted away to a medic he ran back up the hill as everyone was retreating. After the enemy wrestled his knife from his hand, he started attacking them with a shovel. It was then that the enemies retreated.
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  (#11) Brian Chontosh

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  In the early days of the Iraq War, Chontosh and his squad were patrolling an enemy perimeter when their Humvee drove into a trench and was set upon by all manner of enemies. Chontosh did what every red blooded, video game playing American would do and he started shooting everything in sight, and when his M16 jammed he just grabbed whatever gun or ROCKET LAUNCHER he could find. In the end he took out 20 enemy combatants while wounding several others.
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  (#12) Ernest E. Evans

  • Dec. at 36 (1908-1944)

  The commander of the USS Johnston was in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, which was almost a huge disaster but thanks to American maniac Ernest Evans and his suicidal bombardment of an entire Japanese fleet, the Japanese called off their assault and even saluted Evans as the battle came to an end. 
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  (#13) Lewis Millett

  • Dec. at 89 (1920-2009)

  The man, the myth, the mustache. In 1940, Lewis Millett couldn't wait to windmill kick Hitler in the face, so he went AWOL from the Army Air Corps and joined the Canadian Army, since they were already on the fast train to war town. After Pearl Harbor, he rejoined the American Military and he was fined $52 for desertion, this was after he drove an ammunition truck that was on fire away from his comrades only to jump out at the last moment before it exploded... Bad Boys style.
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  (#14) Eric James Brindley Nicolson

  On August 16, 1940, Nicolson was part of an attack against German bombers that were trying to blow Britain into the next century. After being almost shot down, set on fire, and blinded by the blood pouring from his forehead, he gave fiery chase to a German plane, and shot it down. It was only then that he ejected from the plane and after a brief stint in the hospital WENT BACK TO GIVING JERRY HECK!
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  (#15) Richard Marcinko

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  Marcinko's awesomeness began when he was a Navy SEAL in Vietname, where there was a 50,000 piaster bounty on his head. After that, he was put into an elite wrecking crew who was used to attack and infiltrate the U.S. military's own bases. It turned out he was too good at being at attacking bases and was kicked out of the military before being sentenced to a year at a minimum security prison where he wrote his memoirs, Rogue Warrior.

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