Medal of Honor Netflix Series Trailer

For a split second I thought it was going to be a show based on the video game - especially when they opened with that live action WWII footage.

But this looks awesome. I can't wait to see it.

“The Medal of Honor represents the worst day of your life”.

Wow, I’ve really never thought about it that way until I just heard the guy say it.

"Fix bayonets and follow me!” shouted Captain Lewis Millett as he led Company E, 2nd Battalion, 27th U.S. Infantry Regiment, in a Feb. 7, 1951, charge against entrenched Chinese positions atop Hill 180 during the Korean War.

Millet received a Medal of Honor for the action, which U.S. Army historian S.L.A. Marshall called “the most complete bayonet charge by American troops since [the 1864 Battle of] Cold Harbor.”

Lewis Lee Millett Sr. (December 15, 1920 – November 14, 2009) was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor during the Korean War for leading the last major American bayonet charge.

In the ferocious fighting of early 1951, Millett recalled reading a document that said the Chinese believed American soldiers dreaded hand-to-hand combat, and were fearful of “cold steel.”

“We’ll see about that, you sons of bitches,” he muttered. At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.

Millett led the way and routed the Chinese. His Medal of Honor citation reads: “His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.”

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This is now available on Netflix.

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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

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