Robert Howard: A one man army.

05/02/23 • 43 min

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Author Ben Thompson and Professor of History Dr. Pat Larash discuss the most-decorated American soldier of the Vietnam War, First Sergeant Robert Howard, a one-man army who survived 14 wounds and was nominated for the Medal of Honor three different times. His story might not be as well known as those of Sergeant York or Audie Murphy, but his unbelievable exploits battling for his life deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia are no less heroic.

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Badass of the Week - Robert Howard: A one man army.

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Badass of the Week is an iHeartRadio podcast produced by High five Content. Sergeant Bob Howard is wounded. He's tired, He's surrounded. It is the dead of night, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and Sergeant Howard's Special Forces unit is in trouble. Bullets zipped through the dark brush around him from every direction, the pops and cracks of AK forty seven snapping from unseen positions lit only by the moon, and the occasional red orange burst o