President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor on Tuesday to a Vietnam War Army helicopter pilot who scrambled to perform a daring rescue of four soldiers surrounded by heavy enemy fire and facing almost certain death.
That heroism, more than 55 years ago by then-1st Lt. Larry Taylor landed him at the White House where he was awarded the nation’s highest military honor. Of the 40 million who served in the Army, only 3,500 soldiers have received the Medal of Honor.Mr. Biden said when he called Mr. Taylor to tell him he would be receiving the award, Mr. Taylor replied, “I thought you had to do something to receive the Medal of Honor.
Lt. Taylor and his copilot were providing cover fire on the night of June 18, 1968, in their two-seater Cobra helicopter for a surrounded four-man patrol trapped in the jungle below when they learned the rescue helicopter sent to pick the men up had been canceled because of the enemy fire. While they were firing, the patrol team headed toward an extraction point picked by Mr. Taylor, who landed in the middle of the firefight and, in an unprecedented maneuver, had the four men clamber aboard the craft’s skids and rocket pods before flying them out to safety.
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