There are acts of courage that happen in a few violent seconds, moments when a person has almost no time to consider what comes next. Then there are men like Duane Hackney.
Before Vietnam, Timothy Murphy ran track and played basketball in Sacramento. Less than four years after graduating high school, he was fighting for his life with Alpha Company in a jungle near Cambodia.
A West Point uniform and 1938 yearbook preserve the life of Lawrence “Chan” Baldwin, who endured years as a Japanese prisoner of war.
Before the Marine sniper became a familiar figure of the Vietnam War, somebody had to determine how those men would be selected, trained, equipped, organized, and actually used on a battlefield.
SP4 Billy Monroe Green served as an operations and intelligence specialist with the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry before his death in Vietnam on June 24, 1966.
When enemy sappers breached LZ George on April 3, 1968, 1LT John T. Wilkinson led amid the chaos and died defending his soldiers.
