It was after midnight on June 19, 1968, when U.S. Navy Lt. Clyde Lassen and his helicopter crew flew into the jungle of North Vietnam to rescue two Navy aviators whose fighter jet had been shot down.

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Soledad National Veterans Memorial to honor the heroism of Vietnam ... the call of duty” during a rescue mission during the Vietnam War. On the night of June 19, 1968, Lassen, then a lieutenant ...