Vietnam War Hero who Killed Sniper and Silenced Machine Gun to Save Wounded Buddies Dies at 74
Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Col. Charles Hagemeister, retired, shows his medal to Currahees with 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, working the night shift during the Warfighter Exercise, Sept. 17, 2012, at Fort Campbell, Ky. (Todd A. Christopherson/U.S. Army)
20 May 2021
An Army medic who received the Medal of Honor for picking up a fallen soldier s rifle and using it to protect his wounded comrades during the Vietnam War has died, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
Charles Hagemeister, 74, died Wednesday in Leavenworth, Kan., the society announced that day. It did not state a cause of death.
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