This Special Forces Officer Was the Vietnam War’s First Medal of Honor Recipient
Roger Donlon Medal of Honor
(AUSA)
23 Sep 2021
Military.com | By James Barber
Roger Donlon joined the U.S. Army’s Green Berets in 1963 and was sent to Vietnam long before the majority of folks back home realized that we were getting involved in the conflict in Southeast Asia.
Special Forces were tasked with training South Vietnamese civilians and paramilitaries to fight the insurgent Viet Cong. Capt. Donlon was part of a group that set up camp at Nam Dong near the border with Laos.
On July 6, 1964, the Viet Cong attacked. There were 12 Americans in the camp and a few hundred locals when two battalions of North Vietnamese tried to overrun the base.
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