Bravery Honored Janesville Man to Get Belated Medal for Korean War Heroics
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › April 21, 2009
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Bob Larsen was ordered to take a hill, so he did.
It was November 1952. The hill -- dubbed Jackson Heights -- was solid rock. That meant nowhere to dig in for cover, a critical fact Larsen did not know when he and his platoon were ordered to defend the forward position; on the other side were heavily armed North Korean troops who kept coming in waves.See the full content of this document
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Bravery Honored Janesville Man to Get Belated Medal for Korean War Heroics
By the time the battle was over, the Janesville man, who enlisted in the Army one week before the Korean War broke out, had spent hours in the darkness under heavy enemy fire, repeatedly check...
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