- SURNAME
Brucker
- FORENAME
Leslie Lawrence,Jr
- UNIT
5 SF Group (Company B,Det B-20) (2 Mike Force) (201 MSF Company)
- RANK
Staff Sergeant
- NUMBER
23489341
- DATE OF DEATH
25th August 1968
- AGE
29
- GRAVESITE
Forest Cemetery,Circleville,Pickaway County,Ohio
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Circleville,Ohio
born 13.1.1939 Gallia County,Ohio
son of Leslie Lawrence Brucker,Columbus,Ohio and Katherine (nee Wise) Brucker,309 East Franklin Street,Circleville,Ohio
single
graduated Circleville High School 1957
attended Ohio State University (1 year)
12 years service
Ohio National Guard (Staff Sergeant)
entered US Army 1961
graduated SF 1963
medic
award D.S.C.
KIA at A-239,Duc Lap,Quang Duc Province,South Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 46W Line 11
DATE OF DEATH:
25-Aug-1968AWARD:
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/brucker-leslie-l-jr.31173/CITATION:
Distinguished Service Cross : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Staff Sergeant Leslie L. Brucker, Jr. (ASN: RA-23489341), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Detachment B-20, Company B, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces. Staff Sergeant Brucker distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 25 August 1968 as a medic and platoon leader of a mobile strike force company during an assault against fortified positions held by North Vietnamese Army troops inside the Duc Lap Special Forces camp. He was leading his platoon forward under intense enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire when he saw his company commander and a fellow medic felled by the fusillade. Disregarding his safety, Sergeant Brucker rushed across open ground through the withering hail of bullets to reach the fallen aidman. while treating the medic he was asked to help carry his wounded company commander out of the line of enemy fire. Sergeant Brucker moved the officer to safety with the help of another American, whom he then instructed to stop the bleeding unit he returned with his aid kit. Ignoring a heavy concentrations of machine gun fire directed at his position, Sergeant Brucker returned to the injured medic. As he collected his aid kit and prepared to drag his comrade to cover, he was mortally wounded. Staff Sergeant Brucker extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty, at the cost of his life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the Unites States Army.
WEB LINKS:
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/5027
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