Chief Petty Officer George Ajdukovich, 1969

On 7 October 1969, with a two river patrol boat station on the Muo Hai Canal in Vietnam, an enemy grenade landed on his craft.  He immediately seized the grenade, clasping it to his body in an attempt to protect his crewmen.  When it failed to detonate, he cast it into the water, where it did explode.   During the subsequent heavy weapons firefight, he extricated his patrol, and illuminated and mortared the hostile area until air attacks could be made on the entrenched enemy.  He was awarded the Navy Cross.

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