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"He feared no man, he feared no situation and he feared no enemy."

More than 70 years later, Puckett, 94, will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor in combat, for his actions.

By DAN LAMOTHE | The Washington Post | Published: April 30, 2021 WASHINGTON — Shivering in freezing temperatures, about 50 U.S. soldiers braced for the worst. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were about to launch a series of bloody attacks on the hill the Americans had just taken under fire, and no reinforcements were within a mile. The clash that then-1st Lt. Ralph Puckett and his soldiers experienced that night on "Hill 205" came at the outset of the Battle of the Chongchon River, a pivotal moment in which senior U.S. commanders were surprised by China's full-scale entry into the Korean War...

Puckett, then a first lieutenant, was wounded multiple times during the battle fought at Hill 205 during the outset of the Battle of the Chongchon River, which occurred during the Korean War. He had told soldiers to leave him behind once he was incapacitated, but two privates first class, Billy Walls and David Pollock, got him to safety. “I had been wounded three times by then, and I was lying there in my foxhole unable to do anything,” Puckett would later say for an oral history project. “I could see three Chinese about 15 yards away from me, and they were bayoneting or shooting some o...