Vietnam Hero to be Awarded Medal of Honor

Major Bruce P. Crandall
Vietnam Hero to be Awarded Medal of Honor
By Donna Miles
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2007 (AFPS) -- More than 40 years after demonstrating the heroism immortalized in the bestselling book and movie, “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young,” retired Army Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall will receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced yesterday.

Crandall will receive the nation’s highest military award for actions during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in November 1965. The battle, at Landing Zone X-Ray near the Ia Drang River, was the first major ground battle of the war. Read it.

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