After 32 years, pararescue medic William Pitsenbarger was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. hereandnow
A new film opening Friday tells the story of a long fight to right an old wrong.
Ken Alderson, second in command of the Charlie Company, recalls what he was thinking as he watched Pitsenbarger lower through the thick canopy of trees. Members of Charlie Company, as well as Pitsenbarger’s Air Force comrades, spent years trying to get him a posthumous Medal of Honor. It rarely goes to airmen, and in this case, the Pentagon may not have wanted a reminder of that disastrously planned day.
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