company of heroes: a forgotten medal of honor and bravo company's war in vietnam

company of heroes: a forgotten medal of honor and bravo company

Leslie Sabo was a grunt, an infantryman at home in that dangerous place called battle. I left Vietnam two years before he arrived. We were in the same unit in different years so I never met Leslie Sabo. This is that story well told by Eric Poole.

They remembered, and they found a way to get Leslie’s family the medal he had earned at the cost of his life. Leslie Sabo was one of those and this is the story of how he won the Medal of Honor and was promptly forgotten.įor what ever reason, Leslie Sabo’s Medal of Honor paperwork was lost and then forgotten by the Army, but not by his brothers in arms. Some of those, a few, really about a third, went to Vietnam and fought. While some were wearing beads, many more answered their country’s call and wore dog tags instead. This is a book about the best America had to offer during the Vietnam War. Company of Heroes, now published in paperback tells the remarkable story of how Sabo earned his medal, as Bravo Company forged bonds of brotherhood in their daily battle for survival. Beginning with their deployment at the height of the blistering Tet Offensive, and using military records and interviews with surviving soldiers, Eric Poole recreates the terror of combat amidst the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam. Sabo and other replacement soldiers in Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry (Currahees), 101st Airborne Division, were involved in intense, bloody engagements such as the battle for Hill 474 and the Mother's Day Ambush. Its focus is the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr., whose brave actions were forgotten for over three decades.

There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a single unit, deep in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia.

This is the remarkable account of Medal of Honor recipient Leslie Sabo Jr, whose brave actions in Vietnam and Cambodia were forgotten for over three decades and Bravo Company of the legendary 101st Airborne.

Company of heroes: a forgotten medal of honor and bravo company's war in vietnam