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Alfred V. Rascon
Medal of Honor recipient Alfred Velazquez Rascon is one of few American soldiers to earn the Combat Medical Badge and the Combat Infantryman Badge in the same war. He earned a second Combat Medical Badge in a subsequent war. Rascon was born in Chihua
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Burning The Enemy Out
The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong used the vast forests of South Vietnam as a shield, which American commanders wanted to strip away to destroy their troop formations, bases, supply depots, and training facilities within. As American involv
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Ra-5c Vigilante Reconnaissance Aircraft
On Dec. 28, 1972, a low-flying North Vietnamese MiG-21 turned to intercept an RA-5C Vigilante piloted by Lt. Cdr. Alfred H. Agnew of the U.S. Navy. He was flying a low-level post-strike reconnaissance mission to avoid anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) an

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