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The three Americans and their British compatriot were made French knights and awarded the Legion of Honor medal, France’s highest decoration.

Sadler is one of the three American men who became instant heroes on Friday when they tackled and subdued a gunman on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

The three Americans and Briton who took down a heavily armed man on a passenger train in France last week were honored Monday.

Mr Stone was joined by friends US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and Sacramento State University student Anthony Sadler at a press conference at the US Embassy in Paris.

The gunman – identified by French authorities using DNA as 25-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani – is detained and being questioned by French counterterrorism police outside Paris.

Fighting a terrorist was probably the last thing student Anthony Sadler, Air Force serviceman Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, a National Guardsman had on their minds as traveled through Europe. He added that he acted out of “survival – and for my friends and...

When a gunman opened fire on a 500-passenger train from Amsterdam to Paris Friday afternoon (August 21), it appeared the scene would end in a bloodbath. All three of us started punching him and grabbed him again and put him unconscious while Alek was hitting him.

The French President will present France’s top honour for bravery to three Americans and a British man who tackled a gunman on a high-speed train.

Fellow friend Anthony Sadler and British passenger Chris Norman pinned the attacker down and stripped him of his weapons. Norman first thought about hiding but then said to himself that the suspect would kill him anyways so he joined in. When the suspect appeared with a gun on...

“So were we”.

While passengers on Eurostar services between Paris and London must pass through airport-style security before boarding trains, passengers on services between the French capital, Brussels and Amsterdam face no such checks.

United States Air Force serviceman Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and their friend Anthony Sadler, spoke to the press on Sunday at the US embassy in Paris.

Officials didn’t disclose a possible motive for the attack, but Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Spanish authorities had notified French intelligence about the suspect because he belongs to a “radical Islamist movement”.

Three quick-thinking Americans – two of them US servicemen – are being hailed as heroes for preventing an apparent terrorist attack which could have resulted in many causalities aboard a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. US President Barack Obama congratulated...

Reports say Hollande plans to meet at the Elysee Palace on August 24 with the three men, who overpowered an attacker who was armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, an automatic pistol, and a box cutter on the high-speed train just after it crossed from Belgium into northern France.