"Where do we get such men?"
That's the closing line in the movie, The Bridges of Toko-ri, made from the novel of the same name by James Michener. A senior naval officer says it in wonder at the self-sacrificial heroism of several naval aviators, killed fighting in rice paddies of Korea after their aircraft went down.

Now read this post about one of the men who died in the recent crash of the medevac helicopter in Iraq:

One of the victims of the downing of a medevac helicopter was Chief Warrant Officer Aaron Weaver. Weaver was Ranger Sergeant in Somalia and was one of the men who volunteered to lead a unit towards the downed Black Hawk helicopters. He was briefly in the film and book "Black Hawk Down".

Later, he became a OH-58 (Kiowa) pilot. Recently, he had testicular cancer and experienced complications from it, and had convinced his doctors to let him go to Iraq with his unit, the 82nd Airborne Division. The medevac helicopter was taking him back to Baghdad for a check to ensure his cancer remained in remission.