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This is a list of Navy Cross recipients for actions of valor carried out during the Vietnam War, awarded by the United States Department of the Navy. The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [ a ] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
ASA personnel of the 3rd Radio Research Unit were covertly designated as Radio Research and were among the earliest U.S. military personnel in Vietnam. The 3rd later expanded to become the 509th Radio Research Group. The first ASA soldier to be killed on the battlefield in Vietnam was Specialist 4 James T. Davis (from Livingston, Tennessee).
Pages in category "United States Navy personnel of the Vietnam War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 321 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On December 22, 1961, an Army Security Agency soldier, SP4 James T. Davis, was killed in an ambush leading an ARVN squad on one of these direction finding missions. After Johnson became President of the United States several years later, he referred to Davis in a speech as the first American killed in Vietnam; in reality, there had been fifteen ...
During the Vietnam War and in the following twelve months, 235 Medals of Honor were awarded and since 1978 a further 33 awards have been presented. Of the total of 268 awards, 179 were to the US Army, 15 to the US Navy, 58 to the USMC and 14 to the USAF. [3] These totals do not include the award to the Vietnam Unknown Soldier.
A recent Wall Street Journal opinion by Jerry C. Davis, “Vietnam Veterans Deserve an Apology,” alerted me to National Vietnam Veterans Day on March 29. The Paris Peace Accords were expected to ...
Egan, James T: Captain: USMC: 3rd Battalion 12th Marines: South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi Province: Missing in an ambush while acting as forward observer on a reconnaissance patrol [12] Presumptive finding of death [3] January 22: Forman, William S: Captain: US Navy: VS-35, USS Hornet: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin
South Vietnam, Quảng Trị Province: Pilot of a UH-1H #68-16330 that crashed in heavy cloud flying from Marble Mountain Air Facility to Quảng Trị [31] Presumptive finding of death [3] until October 2022 when he was accounted for [32] April 3: Muren, Thomas R: Fireman Apprentice: US Navy: USS John R. Craig: North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin ...