THE WORST AND HORRIBLE STORY OF "SERGEANT OLIVER FUGERE" HOW STOLE ENEMIES WEAPON FOR TEAM.
At the horrific battle of Ap Nha Mat on 5 December 1965, Sergeant Oliver Fugere and soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, fought off a Viet Cong force four times greater than their own.
Leave your comment below, in the comment section.Over a six-hour period, Sgt Fugere directed his platoon in the fight, personally slayed numerous VC, and assisted in the evacuation of his wounded. When the platoon ran out of ammo, he made trip after trip stealing weapons off the dead Vietnamese for his soldiers to use.
When snipers wreaked havoc on the Americans, Fugere walked back and forth down a trail, waiting for the shots that would reveal the snipers’ positions. He wiped them out one by one. By the following morning, Fugere’s company had taken 50% casualties.
His platoon was reduced from 50 men down to 7. Fugere made every effort to retrieve the bodies of all his dead before he was forced to board a chopper and evacuate the battlefield. The photo with this post was taken after the battle, with countless dead Americans waiting their turn for evacuation from Ap Nha Mat.
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For his incredible courage and selfless heroism, Oliver Fugere was nominated for the Medal of Honor. The award was inexplicably downgraded to the Distinguished Service Cross.
In 1996, his fellow soldiers unsuccessfully petitioned President Bill Clinton to have his award upgraded. Fugere died in December that same year at 64 years old.
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On Sept. 29, 1943, the 292 Jewish inmates of the Syrets concentration camp, located in the Ukrainian SSR, rose up against their German captors as their work assignment drew to a close.
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For six weeks, the prisoners had been directed to destroy the evidence of the massacre at Babi Yar, when the Germans murdered nearly 34,000 people over two days, on September 29 and 30, 1941.
The group had labored at excavating and burning the victims' bodies, then grinding and scattering the cremains. As it became clear that they would be executed when the work was finished, the inmates, led by Vladimir Davydov, staged a mass race to the prison walls at dawn.
The German guards, who delayed firing their machine guns until they realized what was happening, killed 280 of 292, but Davydov and eleven other men were able to escape and would later reveal what had happened.
Once Nazi control was re-established in the camp, the remaining 311 inmates were executed..
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