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TIL L/CPL Roy M. Wheat, A US Marine was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic action that occured on August 11, 1967 in Vietnam when he dived on an exploding mine in a jungle in Quang Nam Province, saving 2 fellow Marines from injury and certain death. He was 20 years old.

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