The 2nd squad
In this eyewitness statement, seven members of Staff Sergeant Clifford Sims’s squad describe how he saved their lives by sacrificing his own. Sims threw himself...
The General concurs
U.S. Air Force General George S. Brown, commanding the U.S. 7th Air Force, sent this memorandum to the Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam on October...
"They were magnificent"
Technical Sergeant Morton J. Freedman submitted this statement of his rescue from Kham Duc, Republic of Vietnam. Freedman and the other two members of the Combat...
Touching down
The Flight Deck Chief of the U.S.S Princeton guides a Sikorsky H04S helicopter to a landing in March, 1955. The U.S.S. Princeton spent 1955, and several...
Transcript of report of heroism
First Lieutenant Jack E. Deichman’s report of Captain Manuel “Jay” S. Vargas’s heroism during the Vietnam War supported awarding him the Medal of Honor. This...
Unfaltering devotion to duty
First Lieutenant Jack E. Deichman recalled the “outstanding leadership, calm presence of mind, unfaltering devotion to duty, and disregard for his own safety,”...
Valor second to none
Lieutenant Colonel Richard P. Schumann describes in detail the rescue of three Combat Controllers by the pilots of "a slow, un-armed, highly vulnerable transport...