Second Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry, Draft Citation for Award of Congressional Medal of Honor to Clifford C. Sims
2/21/1968
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This draft describes the actions of SSgt Clifford C. Sims on February 21, 1968, at the battle of Hue, Republic of Vietnam.
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This is the draft of the citation that accompanied the Medal of Honor awarded to Staff Sergeant Clifford Sims’s family. Sims lost his life on February 21, 1968, when he threw himself onto an exploding booby trap to save the soldiers around him.
This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Forces in Southeast Asia.
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305382Full Citation: Second Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry, Draft Citation for Award of Congressional Medal of Honor to Clifford C. Sims; 2/21/1968; Records of the U.S. Forces in Southeast Asia, Record Group 472. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/second-battalion-airborne-501st-infantry-draft-citation-for-award-of-congressional-medal-of-honor-to-clifford-c-sims, May 8, 2024]