Photo of Medal of Honor Recipient Richard Pittman

While Sergeant Pittman's company was conducting an operation along a narrow jungle trail, the leading elements suffered numerous casualties when they came under fire from a well concealed and numerically superior enemy force. Hearing calls for more firepower, Sergeant Pittman exchanged his rifle for a machinegun and several belts of ammunition, left the relative safety of his platoon, and unhesitatingly rushed forward to aid his comrades. Under intense enemy fire at point blank range during his advance, he returned fire, silencing the enemy position. As he continued to forge ahead to aid members of the leading platoon, he again came under fire from two automatic weapons which he promptly destroyed. Learning there were additional wounded Marines 50 yards further along the trail, he braved a withering hail of enemy fire to continue onward. As he reached the position where the leading Marines had fallen, he was confronted with a bold frontal attack by 30 to 40 enemy. He calmly established a position in the middle of the trail and raked the advancing enemy with devastating machinegun fire, then picked up an enemy submachine gun and, together with a pistol seized from a fallen comrade, continued his lethal fire until the enemy force had withdrawn.

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