On this day in 1966, Milton Olive III became the first Black soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War.
On this day in 1966 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today April 21, 2024 April 21, 1966 Portrait of Private First Class Milton Lee Olive III of the 2nd Battalion , 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, Phu Cuong, South Vietnam, October 22, 1965. He became the first African-American Medal of Honor winner of the Vietnam War for 'conspicuous gallantry' in sacrificing his life to save others by smothering an enemy grenade with his own body.
22, 1965, helicopters dropped Olive and the 3rd Platoon of Company B into a dense jungle near Saigon. They returned fire on the Viet Cong, who retreated. As the soldiers pursued the enemy, a grenade was thrown into the middle of them. Olive grabbed the grenade and fell on it, absorbing the blast with his body. “It was the most incredible display of selfless bravery I ever witnessed,” the platoon commander said. Olive saved his fellow soldier’s lives. Then-President Lyndon B.
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