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Ralph Puckett Jr. (December 8, 1926 – April 8, 2024) was a United States Army officer. He led the Eighth Army Ranger Company during the Korean War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions on November 25, 1950, when his company of 51 Rangers was attacked by several hundred Chinese soldiers at the battle for Hill 205.
Second Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, the first commander of the company. In early August as the Battle of Pusan Perimeter was beginning, [8] the Eighth United States Army ordered Lieutenant Colonel John H. McGee, the head of its G-3 Operations Miscellaneous Division, to seek volunteers for a new experimental Army Ranger unit. [5]
Headed by Second Lieutenant Ralph Puckett, the Eighth Army Ranger Company was created in August 1950. [1] It would serve as the role model for the rest of the Ranger units to be formed. Instead of being organized into self-contained battalions, the Ranger units of the Korean and Vietnam eras would be organized into companies and then attached ...
Ralph Puckett Jr., a retired Army colonel awarded the Medal of Honor seven decades after he was wounded leading a company of outnumbered Army Rangers in battle during the Korean War, has died at ...
Retired Col. Ralph Puckett Jr. entered the ceremony in a wheelchair, but he stood on his own for the reading of his citation and to receive the award.
The president gave the nation’s highest military decoration to Ralph Puckett Jr., a 94-year-old Korean War veteran and retired Army colonel who was wounded in a battle against Chinese soldiers ...
Ralph Puckett (1926–2024) – U.S. Army. Last recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in the Korean War. [72] Charles G. Cleveland (1927–2021) – U.S. Air Force.
Ralph Puckett (1926–2024) – United States. Last Medal of Honor recipient. [298] Bill Speakman (1927–2018) – United Kingdom. Last Victoria Cross recipient. Served in the Black Watch, British Army. [299]