10 Athletes Who Served Their Nation In War Time

BANGALORE: Athletics is a gentleman’s sports; a lot of people today are building their careers in it. But there are certain athletes in the world that had to put aside their career and risk their lives to serve their nations during the war time. 

They are the real heroes who showed heroism both on sports and battle fields. Some of them demonstrated their patriotism with their open eyes while some of them got salute when their eyes were closed. Here is the list of 10 strongest athletes who risked their career to serve their countries on war grounds as compiled by listverse.com.

# Chuck Bednarik

Chuck Bednarik is a former professional American football player, known as one of the most devastating tacklers in the history of football and the last two-way player in the National Football League.

But a very few people know that soon after completing his high school, he entered the United States Army Air Forces and served as a B-24 waist-gunner with the Eighth Air Force. Bednarik flew on 30 combat missions over Germany, for which he was awarded the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters, the European Theater Operations Medal and four Battle Stars.

In 1999, he was ranked number 54 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. This made him the highest-ranking player to have spent his entire career with the Eagles, the highest-ranking offensive center and the eighth-ranked linebacker in all of professional football.

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