In Afghanistan in 2010, he single-handedly fought off 30 Taliban soldiers.
As Pun was keeping guard on the roof of a checkpoint, the attackers came from all sides with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s. It took less than an hour for Pun to kill them all.
By September 1944 German troops in Italy had pinned their hopes on the line of fortifications in the north of the country known as the Gothic Line. Breaking this line was essential.
He and his section commander stormed an enemy strongpoint. Having overcome a machine gun post, he continued to engage the enemy and despite suggestions to seek cover, he lay in the open under a hail of bullets firing his gun, silencing further enemy machine guns and keeping the Germans from advancing. After two hours of severe fighting he was ordered to retire with his Company. He covered their withdrawal alone until his ammunition was exhausted. Then, before retiring, he ran out in the face of accurate small arms and mortar fire to rescue two wounded comrades who were between him and the Germans.
Best known for "Gurkha who took on 200 Japanese soldiers with only one hand in WWII".
Measured less than 5 foot, Lachhiman Gurung was manning the most forward post which bore the brunt of an attack by at least 200 of the Japanese enemy for 3 days. He hurled back two hand grenades which had fallen on his trench, but the third exploded in his right hand after he attempted to throw it back, blowing off his fingers, shattering his arm and severely wounding him in the face, body, and right leg. His two comrades were also badly wounded but the rifleman, now alone and disregarding his wounds, loaded and fired his rifle with his left hand for four hours killing over 30 enemy soldiers.
During the WWII in Burma. Rai and his men, who had already taken heavy casualties, were able to re-capture 2 key outposts from the Japanese, area covered by the murderous fire of two machinegun posts, 200 yards apart, and an artillery position.
When the first position had been taken, however they now came under heavy fire from the other strong point, as well as from the 37mm gun concealed in the jungle. Agansing Rai led his section towards the gun. Half the men were killed on the way, but Rai reached the gun and personally killed three of the five-man crew; his section killed the other two. He subsequently tackled an isolated bunker single-handed, killing all four occupants. The remaining Japanese, thoroughly demoralised, fled into the jungle, leaving these two vital positions in the hands of the Gurkhas.
In 2011, he fought 40 train robbers in India and saved a girl from rape.
With his his khukri knife, the Gurkha took on the robbers armed with knives, swords, and pistols. The family of the girl, whom he saved also offered him a cash reward, but our brave soldier refused it. He said, 'Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier. Taking on the thugs on the train was my duty as a human being.'
Captain Rambahadur Limbu made 3 trips into enemy territory in Borneo confrontation in 1965.
On the first trip, facing heavy gunfire, two of Limbu's men were shot-one killed and another severely wounded. Before the enemy could advance, Limbu pushed them back with grenades. He then crawled 100 yards across the battlefield back into Gurkha territory to alert his comrades of what had happened. Limbu then went back to the wounded soldier, still under fire, and carried the man back across the same 100 yards to safety. With the battle still raging, Limbu returned to the field a third time to retrieve his dead comrade.As gunfire flew above his head in Burma, Rifleman Ganju Lama withstood a broken left wrist and wounds to his right hand and leg to take on three Japanese tanks in World War II. He crawled in the middle of the battlefield, destroyed each tank one-by-one with anti-tank guns, and defeated the men fleeing from the tanks, allowing none of them to escape.
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