In today’s video, retired Army Major General James H. Mukoyama, Jr., shares the story of his Vietnam experience as a company commander with the 9th Division in the Mekong Delta, and later as G-3 plans adviser for the ARVN II Corps in the Central Highlands, 1969-1970. https://www.vietnamwar50th.com/history_and_legacy/oral_history/mukoyama,-james/ #ThankVietnamVets @topfans | The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration

He Landed on an Enemy Bunker to Save 90 Soldiers 🇺🇸 | Vietnam War Hero January 25, 1969 — Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Ninety American soldiers were trapped in an open rice paddy under deadly machine gun fire. Five were already dead. Airstrikes couldn’t hit the bunker without killing their own men. Then Lt. Allan “Ace” Kazalo did the impossible. He flew his tiny OH-6 Loach helicopter to just 10 feet above the enemy bunker… and landed directly on top of it. Under heavy fire, his crew dropped a grenad