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Major Dunagan was leading an attack to relieve pressure on the battalion's forward support base when his company came under intense fire from a well-entrenched enemy battalion. Despite hostile fire from a numerically superior force, he repeatedly exposed himself in order to locate enemy positions, directed friendly artillery, and positioned the men of his company. In the evening, while directing an element into perimeter guard, he was wounded during an enemy mortar attack, but refused to leave the battlefield and continued to supervise evacuation of dead and wounded. He risked heavy fire on two occasions to rescue critically wounded men and was again himself seriously wounded. Having maneuvered his command into contact with an adjacent friendly unit, he learned that a six-man party from his company was under fire and had not reached the new perimeter. Major Dunagan unhesitatingly went back and searched for his men. Finding one soldier critically wounded, ignoring his wounds he lifted the man to his shoulders and carried him to the comparative safety of the friendly perimeter. Before permitting himself to be evacuated, he insured all of his wounded received emergency treatment and were removed from the area. |
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