America’s Newest Medal of Honor Recipients

This week on Veterans Radio, we will be talking with America’s newest Medal of Honor recipients.

LTC Donald “Don” Long’s helicopter was shot down in the landing zone that day and was finally rescued when Kettles came back with additional aircraft borrowed from the 161st Aviation Company(Pelicans). During the early morning hours of May 15, 1967, personnel of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, were ambushed in the Song Tra Cau riverbed by an estimated battalion-sized force of the North Vietnamese army with numerous automatic weapon ...