Lieutenant General Victor H. Kruliak presents the Bronze Star Medal to Nguyen Van Bon of Combined Action Platoon Coon R-8, Combined Action Company Hotel, Sub Unit #4, Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam. Bon saved an ambush patrol of his unit, as captured in a photograph from 1967.

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