IN REMEMBRANCE OF THIS BRAVE YOUNG UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS HERO WHOSE NAME SHALL LIVE FOREVER MORE <><><><> CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR <><><><>
Posted for: ALFRED MAC WILSON:

PRIVATE FIRST CLASS

ALFRED MAC WILSON


<><><><> CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR <><><><>


COMPANY M

3rd BATTALION

9th MARINES

3rd MARINE DIVISION


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The following is a newspaper account
of the battle in which

PRIVATE FIRST CLASS

ALFRED MAC WILSON

became a posthumous recipient of the

CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR


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MARINES BEAT BACK ASSAULT

ON BASE NEAR THE DMZ


SAIGON, South Vietnam - March 3 -


About 500 United States Marines fought off a strong North Vietnamese
attack today on an artillery base three miles south of the DMZ.

The enemy's drive was the fourth in that area since the spring offensive
of the foe opened on February 23.

Thirteen Marines were killed and 22 were wounded in the defense of
the artillery base against repeated charges by scores of North Vietnamese
infantrymen. The bodies of 20 North Vietnamese were found on the
field, about 15 miles west of Dong Ha, after the fighting ended in the
late afternoon, the United States command said.


Enemy Struck Early


The North Vietnamese force struck in the early morning hours with
machine-gun and small-arms fire, and the Marines fought back with
machine-guns, rifles and artillery.

Reports from Da Nang said that a Marine patrol operating outside the
base became involved in the initial fighting and apparently suffered
many of the casualties. These reports said that there had been no
penetration of the base itself. Officers at Marine Headquarters in
Da Nang declined to speculate whether the attacks on the bases
near the DMZ signalled a new outburst of sustained fighting along
the once neutral buffer zone.
Posted by: CLAY MARSTON
Email: cmarston@interlog.com
Relationship: BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCHER - CMH
Friday, January 28, 2000
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