John P. Baca (born January 10, 1949) is a former United States Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" during the Vietnam War.
Medal received from: President Richard M. Nixon, June 15, 1971
John Baca survived severe wounds received during the February 10, 1970 ambush.
In 2002, a park was named in his honor in Huntington Beach, C...
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John P. Baca (born January 10, 1949) is a former United States Army soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" during the Vietnam War.
Medal received from: President Richard M. Nixon, June 15, 1971
John Baca survived severe wounds received during the February 10, 1970 ambush.
In 2002, a park was named in his honor in Huntington Beach, California. In 1990, John Baca returned to Vietnam with a group of ten men from Veterans Vietnam Restoration Project. The group spent eight weeks working alongside Vietnamese building a health clinic in a village north of Hanoi.
John Baca rarely publicly speaks about the events of the February 10, 1970 ambush. He prefers to recount an incident that occurred on Christmas Day 1969. Baca was walking ahead of his unit, acting as "point," when he surprised a young North Vietnamese soldier sitting alone on top of a bunker in the jungle. Baca saw that...
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