October 26, 1942. Henderson Field, Guadalcanal.
Thirty-three Marines held a ridge south of the airfield. On the other side of that ridge, twenty-seven hundred Japanese soldiers from the Sendai Division were about to charge straight through their position. What happened over the next few hours became one of the most extraordinary stands in Marine Corps history.
Every Marine in the platoon was killed or wounded. Every single one. But the position never fell. One sergeant refused to let it. What he did alone on that ridge — how he held it, how he fought, and how he ended it — earned him the Medal of Honor.
His name was Mitchell Paige.
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