Veterans Chronicles · Radio America

PO2 Bob Ingram, U.S. Navy Corpsman, Vietnam, Medal of Honor

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Wounded in the hand and leg, Ingram kept racing to fallen Marines until an enemy shot him through the face.
Bob Ingram, a Navy corpsman in Vietnam, shares his journey from training to receiving the Medal of Honor for actions in 1966, highlighting intense combat, brotherhood with Charlie Company, and the long road to recognition decades later.

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A plainspoken Vietnam survival story that turns combat memory into hard-edged testimony.

Veterans Chronicles gives Bob Ingram room to tell a hard, plain account of duty, improvisation, and getting through the next minute alive for the man beside you.

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A Vietnam War Medal of Honor account told by the Navy corpsman who kept moving under fire.

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