Army colonel, 94, to receive Medal of Honor
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...