Biography Clarence Sasser
Biography of SP5 CLARENCE E. SASSER
Created by: SPC Roche, Paulin
Biography
Born
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: September 12, 1947
Chenango, Texas
Branch/tour
: United States Army (1967 – 1968)
Unit
: 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
Wars / Battle
: Vietnam War
Award / Badges : Medal of Honor
Purple Heart
Combat Medical Badge
Expert Marksmanship Badge
Biography Cont.
Clarence Sasser was drafted into the United States Army after giving up his college
deferment at the University of Houston.
PFC Sasser was attached to A CO, 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment as a Medical
Aidman in Vietnam in late September 1967.
On January 10th, 1967 he was hit by Shrapnel from an exploding rocket; shot in both
legs by machine gun and continue to treat injured soldiers despite his injury.
Presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in
1969.
Medal of Honor Recipient
On March 7th, 1968 President Richard
Nixon presented 21-year-old Sasser with the Congressional Medal of
Honor “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty”. SP5C Clarence Sasser
At the Brazoria County
Courthouse in Angleton, Texas,
Clarence Sasser was honored on
Veterans' Day 2010 for outstanding bravery and was memorialized into the 40−foot
"Ring of Honor" with a life-size portrait bronze sculpture in
Vietnam created by Tom White.
Clarence Sasser Memorialized
On November 7, 2013, Texas A&M thanked Medal of Honor recipient
Clarence Sasser for his military service and unveiled an exhibit area where his medal will be housed in the Memorial Student
Center's Medal of Honor Hall of
Honor alongside seven other medal recipients.
QUESTIONS?
Created by: SPC Roche, Paulin
Biography
Born
•
•
•
•
: September 12, 1947
Chenango, Texas
Branch/tour
: United States Army (1967 – 1968)
Unit
: 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
Wars / Battle
: Vietnam War
Award / Badges : Medal of Honor
Purple Heart
Combat Medical Badge
Expert Marksmanship Badge
Biography Cont.
Clarence Sasser was drafted into the United States Army after giving up his college
deferment at the University of Houston.
PFC Sasser was attached to A CO, 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment as a Medical
Aidman in Vietnam in late September 1967.
On January 10th, 1967 he was hit by Shrapnel from an exploding rocket; shot in both
legs by machine gun and continue to treat injured soldiers despite his injury.
Presented with the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in
1969.
Medal of Honor Recipient
On March 7th, 1968 President Richard
Nixon presented 21-year-old Sasser with the Congressional Medal of
Honor “for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty”. SP5C Clarence Sasser
At the Brazoria County
Courthouse in Angleton, Texas,
Clarence Sasser was honored on
Veterans' Day 2010 for outstanding bravery and was memorialized into the 40−foot
"Ring of Honor" with a life-size portrait bronze sculpture in
Vietnam created by Tom White.
Clarence Sasser Memorialized
On November 7, 2013, Texas A&M thanked Medal of Honor recipient
Clarence Sasser for his military service and unveiled an exhibit area where his medal will be housed in the Memorial Student
Center's Medal of Honor Hall of
Honor alongside seven other medal recipients.
QUESTIONS?