This WWII sailor stepped in to save a fellow POW from a beating

Courage can take more than one form — and can be recognized as such even by an enemy unaccustomed to such behavior. Such was the case with Dick Antrim of the United States Navy destroyer Pope, who snatched his own sort of victory from the jaws of defeat.

Born in in the landlocked town of Peru, Indiana, on Oct. 17, 1907, Richard Nott Antrim chose a life at sea when he joined the Naval Reserve…