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John B. Lang

A Final Valiant Act

The Story of Doug Dickey, Medal of Honor

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This Vietnam War biography recounts the story of an American soldier who heroically gave his life to save his comrades. Private 1st Class Douglas E. Dickey was just twenty years old when he dove onto a grenade, saving the lives of four men, including his platoon leader. The young Marine's actions on Easter Sunday 1967 won him a posthumous Medal of Honor. Dickey grew up in Ohio and enlisted in the Marine Corps with four of his high school friends. After he was deployed to Vietnam, he took part in Operation Deckhouse VI, a landing in Quang Ngai, then Operation Beacon Hill, which led him and his comrades into a devastating ambush. During the… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5040-6355-5
  • EAN: 9781504063555
  • Produktnummer: 33896738
  • Verlag: Casemate Publishers
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 333 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 28'317 KB

Über den Autor


Lt. Col. John B. Lang is a native of Monterey, California, and a graduate of the US Naval Academy. He spent most of his adult life in the Marine Corps, and is a veteran of three combat operations. Lang retired from the Marine Corps in 2004 with more than twenty-two years of commissioned service. He has more than twenty-seven military awards and decorations, and was the Marine Corps intelligence officer of the year in 1996.

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