People Who Changed History by Disregarding Orders

If you are in the military and decide not to obey an order from a superior, you'd better be pretty darn sure you are right, or else are willing to pay the price for insubordination. In most cases, you'd be punished and no one back home would ever know about it. But some famous cases of disregarding orders made a real difference in battle, or even for the survival of the planet. Those cases where disobedience turned out to be the right decision left the soldier a hero and the story might even be made into a movie. Sometime it led to disaster. And sometimes the soldier got away with it because the person issuing the orders was on his last legs anyway. Weird History tells us eleven stories of disobedient members of their nation's military forces that left a mark on the world, in one way or another.