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ADVERTISEMENT Puckett is broadly known for his service in the Korean War, when Chinese forces launched a wave of assaults on Hill 205. The withdrawal from North Korea back to South Korea is one of the longest in U.S. military history and cost the lives of thousands of U.S. troops. During the retreat, Puckett, then the commander of the Eighth Army Ranger Company, was wounded by a hand grenade in the first attack but kept at his post. He is also credited with ordering “danger close” artillery strikes near his own position to blunt the Chinese soldiers’ advances. “I had been wounded three times by then, and I was lying there in my foxhole unable to do anything,” Puckett later said for an oral history project. “I could see three Chinese [soldiers] about 15 yards away from me, and they were bayoneting or shooting some of my wounded Rangers who were in the foxholes.” 

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