Nebraskan Medal of Honor Hopeful Fights to Save Soldiers
Sp4 Charles Hagemiester, a 20 year old Nebraska University soil conservation student and medic from Lincoln, is recommended for the Medal of Honor for six hours of heroic action on March 20 near Bong Son. He treated and evacuated wounded under heavy fire, saved comrades, and even after a morphine syrette was blasted from his hand, continued aiding the First Cavalry division in a fierce engagement with the 22nd North Vietnamese regiment.
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Bong Son
Vietnam
UPI
Charles Hagemiester
Hagemiester
University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Here
1St Cavalry Division
Alpha Company
Coe Musicians to Join MAIB Event at Buena Vista
Seven Coe College students named to participate in the Mid-American Intercollegiate Band activities at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake. The group includes clarinetists Tom Worden Mary Eby and David Clauss and nurses Roberta Dorr and Mary Zimmerman playing bass saxophone and saxophone respectively. Others are Marie Williams trombone and Sandra McMeekin percussion. Massed band performs Saturday under Dr William Revell of Michigan.
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Coe College
Buena Vista College
Storm Lake
Tom Worden
Yonkers
N. Y
Mary Eby
Woodbine
David Clauss
Chicago
St. Luke's School of Nursing
Roberta Dorr
Sanborn
Mary Zimmerman
Olin
Draftee Medic's Six Hours of Heroism in Battle
Private Hagemiester earned praise after a six hour infantry action in which he evacuated the wounded, aided in radio calls, carried a rear radio, and killed four enemies with a grenade launcher. He and six men faced heavy fire, Alpha company suffered three KIA and 14 WIA, and a captured prisoner reported fifty killed in the enemy trench line. The medic, initially hoping for forestry work, is undecided about a future army career.
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Hagemiester
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