Lyndon Baines Johnson13 May 1965
The Viet Cong attack the U.S. special forces camp in Phuoc Long
United States of America · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Viet Cong attack the U.S. special forces camp in Phuoc Long
Earns the Congressional Medal of Honor by knocking out a Viet Cong machine-gun then guiding rescue helicopters, while wounded four times
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