Sentence examples for bravery under fire from inspiring English sources

By war's end, he had distinguished himself in battle and would earn the Medal of Honor for his bravery under fire at the Battle of Chickamauga.

Great fearlessness is required - there is no shortage of awe at McCullin's bravery under fire - and war journalism is a macho world, has an undeniable, macho glamour.

In addition to Mr Purnell and Mr McVeigh, all the officers in the Granada and three of the SPG officers were decorated for their bravery under fire.

And there was something undeniably effective in the way the Convention was militarized, with all those retired generals and comrades-in-arms on the stage to testify to his bravery under fire.

Miles Standish can demonstrate the loading of a musket with a practiced wrist while commenting sardonically on bravery under fire, class structure in the colonial militia and the odds against hitting the soldier you aim at.

The question that now looms over the Pentagon as it moves toward full gender integration is whether female service members like Sergeant Pearsall, for all their bravery under fire, can perform the same dangerous and physically demanding tasks day in and day out, for weeks at a time, as permanent members of ground combat units like the infantry or armored cavalry.

ROSE UNDER FIRE By Elizabeth Wein Hyperion, $17.99.

CONDUCT UNDER FIRE, by John A. Glusman.

He gained a reputation for, in Hemingway's phrase for bravery, showing grace under fire.

Rusk wrote of the Mexican attack: "These men advanced with great coolness and bravery under a destructive fire from our men, preserving ... strict order and exhibiting no confusion".

Do those of us who judge bravery have a comic-book view of what it actually means to be under fire, or one that is so abstract that we think courage can be demonstrated scientifically?