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Toby Braveboy from Coward, SC

A Vietnam Combat Vet

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Evacuating a wounded soldier from the Ia Drang Valley, November 1965. Joseph L. Galloway photo via Stripes.

On November 17, 1965, PFC Toby Braveboy, a 24-year old Native American infantryman from Coward, South Carolina, was leading his platoon along the edge of a helicopter landing zone in the Ia Drang Valley of South Vietnam.

There had been heavy fightin…

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