Hector A. Cafferata Jr. led a heroic attack against enemy forces during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, saving countless American lives
A huge Navy ship that’s scheduled to be built in San Diego will be named after the late, a former Camp Pendleton Marine private who was awarded the Medal of Honor for a heroic attack on enemy forces during the Korean War.
The ship that will be named after Hector Cafferata Jr. will be basically the same as the USNS Harvey Milk, shown here at NASSCO in San Diego., during which U.S. and allied forces were surrounded and attacked by an overwhelming number of Chinese fighters. “Without stopping to put his shoes on — despite ankle-deep snow — he got to work defending the hill,” the Defense Department says in a history of Cafferata’s heroism.
Cafferata also jumped into an entrenchment that was sheltering Marines and picked up an enemy grenade that was about to go off. The device went off as it was leaving his hand, injuring him badly. But he kept fighting until he was shot by a sniper.
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