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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 ...
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, 97, American Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient. [207] Victor Riley, 49, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs, New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans). [208] Christiane Scrivener, 98, French politician, MEP (1979–1989). [209] Ilie Șerbănescu, 81, Romanian economist. [210] Lubert Stryer, 86, American academic. [211]
Puckett is a surname of French Huguenot origin, an anglicized form of French surnames such as Pouquette or Pouquet [1] meaning "the son of Pouque" or Puck. It is found mostly in North America and the British Isles with the mass emigration of Huguenot families following the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre .
The Lovin' Spoonful is an American folk-rock band formed in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1964.The band were among the most popular groups in the United States for a short period in the mid-1960s and their music and image influenced many of the contemporary rock acts of their era.