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While leading his squad in an assault against a strongly entrenched enemy force, Sergeant O'Malley's unit came under intense small-arms fire. With complete disregard for his personal safety, he raced across an open rice paddy to a trench line where the enemy forces were located. Jumping into it he attacked with his rifle and grenades, and single-handedly killed eight of the enemy. He then led his squad to the assistance of an adjacent Marine unit which was suffering heavy casualties. He fired with telling effect into the enemy emplacement and personally assisted in the evacuation of several wounded Marines. Again regrouping the remnants of his squad, he returned to the point of the heaviest fighting. Ordered to an evacuation point, he gathered his badly wounded squad, and boldly led them under fire to a helicopter for withdrawal. Although three times wounded in this encounter, and facing imminent death from a determined enemy, he steadfastly refused evacuation and continued to cover his squad's boarding of the helicopters while, from an exposed position, he delivered fire against the enemy until his men were evacuated. Only then, with his last mission accomplished, did he permit himself to be removed from the battlefield. |
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