SCREAMING EAGLES: MEET THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
May 10, 2023Mac Caltrider
101st Airborne
US Army Pfc. Kevin Todd, an automatic rifleman assigned to Alpha Company, 1-26 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division provides support-by-fire for an assault team during a live fire training scenario at the Hurso Training Field, Ethiopia, for Justified Accord on June 26, 2019. US Air Force photo by Airman First Class Brennen Lege.
On the afternoon of May 10, 1970, US Army Spc. Leslie Sabo Jr. and a company of paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division were on a routine reconnaissance patrol in Cambodia when they were caught in a U-shaped ambush.
Enemy fire raked the American formation, inflicting heavy casualties. Sabo immediately assaulted the nearest enemy position, killing several North Vietnamese Army soldiers. With complete disregard for his own safety, Sabo attacked another group of enemy soldiers attempting to flank the patrol. He killed them, too, expending all of his ammunition in the process.
Sabo returned to the ambush site to retrieve ammunition from his dead platoon mates. He found one of his fellow soldiers wounded but alive and began rendering aid. When an enemy grenade landed nearby, Sabo grabbed the deadly device and threw it back. He covered his wounded comrade with his body just as the grenade exploded. It riddled Sabo’s body with shrapnel.
https://coffeeordie.com/101st-airborne
