AR-1 Members of 1st Platoon, posing just after receiving Purple Hearts are: Sgt. Sherwin Hall (CA), squad leader, Sgt. Finnis McCleery (TX), platoon sergeant, Lt. Jim Love (IL), platoon leader, and Alan Rinehart (UT), rifleman; sitting are John 'Chunky' Carlson (NJ), rifleman, Tony Cordia, rifleman, and Mahlon Fegley (DE), rifleman. This photo was taken several days before Hill 352 (Nui Hoac Ridge), where McCleery won the Medal of Honor. Fegley says he was wounded on 4/29/68, and again on 5/14/68, after which he was medevaced to Japan for a month. That means he would not have been around after Hill 352 to pose for a picture, and he doesn't remember ever having his second PH pinned on him.

AR-1 Members of 1st Platoon, posing just after receiving Purple Hearts are: Sgt. Sherwin Hall (CA), squad leader, Sgt. Finnis McCleery (TX), platoon sergeant, Lt. Jim Love (IL), platoon leader, and Alan Rinehart (UT), rifleman; sitting are John 'Chunky' Carlson (NJ), rifleman, Tony Cordia, rifleman, and Mahlon Fegley (DE), rifleman. This photo was taken several days before Hill 352 (Nui Hoac Ridge), where McCleery won the Medal of Honor. Fegley says he was wounded on 4/29/68, and again on 5/14/68, after which he was medevaced to Japan for a month. That means he would not have been around after Hill 352 to pose for a picture, and he doesn't remember ever having his second PH pinned on him.
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