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(Bernard Carmichael/Stars and Stripes)

South Vietnam, July 1965: A fire mission caught Sgt. Homer Charnock of Bravo Battery, 319th Artillery, in the middle of shaving, so he dropped his razor and rushed into position to man his gunsight.

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