Army dentist, killed 98 Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Saipan before he was killed – after being shot 76 times
Leona Harriet Woods was the only female member of the team which built the world’s first nuclear reactor …
An army of 1000 Japanese soldiers was decimated by saltwater crocodiles during the Battle of Ramree Island of World War II.
The creators of Curious George, Hans and Margret Ray, managed to escape from Paris just hours before it fell to the Nazis
Dimitar Peshev – the deputy speaker of the Bulgarian parliament that saved around 50,000 Bulgarian Jews
A Bosnian Muslim family that saved a Jewish family during the Holocaust was later saved by the same Jewish family during the genocide in Bosnia
Mamoru Shinozaki, the “Japanese Oskar Schindler” saved thousands of Chinese during the Japanese occupation of Singapore