Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Sergeant John A. Pittman, 22, Company C, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, a farmer's son from backwoods Talulla, Miss. On November 26, near Hamhung, Sergeant Pittman volunteered to lead his squad in a counterattack against an enemy-held hill. The Chinese poured down mortar fire, burp guns began their deadly whinny. Pittman went down with a mortar-fragment wound, got up, pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl...
...Pittman is the third to win the medal in Korea for smothering a grenade, and the only survivor. In World War II, 13 Army men won the medal for the same courageous deed; only one lived...