Fort Hood was renamed in honor of him on May 9, 2023. After an armed helicopter crashed during the Vietnam War on June 5, ...

An Army captain who grew up in North Carolina and died while saving three fellow soldiers in a downed helicopter in Vietnam in 1966 was one of seven servicemen awarded the Medal of Honor Friday in a ...

Hugh Nelson Jr. received the Congressional Medal ... while serving as a member of the 114th Aviation Company near South Vietnam, when they were struck by enemy gunfire. "Their helicopter got ...

After an armed helicopter crashed during the Vietnam War on June 5, 1966, Army Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, pulled two specialists from the aircraft, shielding one of ...

President Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to seven U.S. Army soldiers, most of whom received it posthumously for ...

Cavazos, who served in Korea and then went on to serve for over 30 years, attaining the rank of four-star general before he ...

Newcastle Knights enforcer Leo Thompson has signed with the Canterbury Bulldogs for the 2026 season and beyond. The club confirmed on Friday that it will be a four-year deal, with Thompson to play for ...

Captain Hugh Reavis Nelson, a 1959 graduate of The Citadel, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on Friday for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War, according to school ...

Hugh R. Nelson Jr., who was killed by gunfire while helping another specialist in Vietnam; and Pfc ... and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who served as chair and vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee.

Captain Hugh R. Nelson, Jr., who was killed by gun fire while helping another specialist in Vietnam; and Private First Class Kenneth J. David, who drew fire on himself in Vietnam to protect the ...

Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and former Wyoming Republican ... Biden will bestow the Medal of Honor on five Korean War veterans and two Vietnam War veterans Friday. Each man, six of whom will receive ...