United States Army Corporal served as medical aidman with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 5th Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division He was killed in action in Gia Dinh, South Vietnam and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force. His infantry platoon was conducting a reconnaissance-in-force operation near Hoc Mon when it was subjected to intense small arms from a North Vietnamese Army battalion in well fortified positions. One squad was pinned down and Private Loback crawled forward through the battle treating five wounded troops and assisted them to a position of relative safety. He race across to another wounded soldier and skillfully treated him who then hit again by gunfire and was treated a second time by Private Loback. While pulling him to safety, Loback was killed by enemy automatic weapons fire abandoning his lifesaving mission placing the welfare of a fellow soldier above his own in the heat of battle.
United States Army Corporal served as medical aidman with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 5th Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division He was killed in action in Gia Dinh, South Vietnam and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force. His infantry platoon was conducting a reconnaissance-in-force operation near Hoc Mon when it was subjected to intense small arms from a North Vietnamese Army battalion in well fortified positions. One squad was pinned down and Private Loback crawled forward through the battle treating five wounded troops and assisted them to a position of relative safety. He race across to another wounded soldier and skillfully treated him who then hit again by gunfire and was treated a second time by Private Loback. While pulling him to safety, Loback was killed by enemy automatic weapons fire abandoning his lifesaving mission placing the welfare of a fellow soldier above his own in the heat of battle.
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THOMAS J
LOBACK
NEW YORK
PFC HHC 1 BN
5 INF 25 INF DIV
VIETNAM
APRIL 8 1946
FEBRUARY 19 1968
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