Colonel Harvey C. Barnum: Taking Command in Vietnam

05/01/23 • 4 min

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With his company commander killed in an ambush, and Marines isolated from the rest of the battalion, Colonel Barnum took over the company and defeated the enemy. Barnum used attack helicopters on enemy positions and evacuated his dead and wounded.

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