Eyewitness Statement of Virgil Meyers, Danny Gipson, and James Noe Regarding SSG Clifford C. Sims

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Description

In this eyewitness statement, three radio telephone operators describe how Staff Sergeant Clifford Sims saved the lives of all the soldiers in the area. Sims was fatally wounded when he threw himself on an exploding booby trap outside of Hue, South Vietnam, on February 21, 1968.

As a result of this and other statements, Staff Sergeant Sims was awarded posthumously the Congressional Medal of Honor. In an extraordinary occurrence, SSG Joe Hooper of the same company earned the Congressional Medal of Honor on the same day.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Forces in Southeast Asia.

National Archives Identifier: 305388

Full Citation: Eyewitness Statement of Virgil Meyers, Danny Gipson, and James Noe, Company D, Second Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry, 101st Airborne Division Regarding SSG Clifford C. Sims; 2/21/1968; Clifford Sims; Medal of Honor Awards Case Files, 1965–ca. 1972; Records of the U.S. Forces in Southeast Asia, Record Group 472; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/eyewitness-statement-virgil-meyers-et-al-about-clifford-sims/, April 12, 2026]

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