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,”...
Unprovoked attack
On August 3, 1964, one day after receiving word of a possible attack on the U.S.S. Maddox, the State Department in Washington, DC, sent these instructions to...
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...
Vietnam, 1975
This telegram—the last message from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam—was sent on April 29, 1975. President Gerald R. Ford had ordered the evacuation of...