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TIL in October 1966, a soldier named Nguyen Van Leong, of South Vietnam, had an unexploded motor shell lodge in his chest, he was carried into the U.S. Navy Hospital, utmost precaution was used, the operation was a success, he survived & the bomb did not explode

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