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Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient Army SSG Drew Dix.
Episode 2795 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about U.S. Army SSG Drew Dix and his Congressional Medal of Honor award honors. The featured story comes from the taraross website and was titled: Medal of Honor Monday: Drew Dix. It was submitted by Tara Ross. She is a retired lawyer and the author of several books about the Electoral College.
Ross reported that during this week in 1944, a hero is born. Drew Dennis Dix is currently one of four Medal of Honor recipients to hail from Pueblo, Colorado. The city has been called the “Home of Heroes.”
Dix’s heroism came in Vietnam on January 31, 1968, just as the Tet Offensive was beginning. He was then a Staff Sergeant coordinating intelligence gathering and working as a Special Forces advisor near the Cambodian border.
But now the provincial capital of Chau Phu had been overrun by the Viet Cong. Dix was to return to the city, along with his patrol of Vietnamese soldiers and some Navy SEALs. Together, they would assist in the defense of the city and rescue trapped civilians.
The men were in SEAL riverboats as they approached the city. The landing was difficult, “like a little Normandy,” as one of the men would later say, yet it was just the beginning of the long, grueling effort to follow.
“Once we got into the city, we could see it was a major offensive,” Dix later explained. “No help was coming, and things were really bad. They were worse than I thought. The city was totally under the control of the VC.”
One major concern was an American civilian nurse who’d been volunteering in the area. Dix went in for her, not knowing if she was still alive.
Listen to episode 2795 and discover more about U.S. Army SSG Drew Dix and his Congressional Medal of Honor award.
