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Notes from The Virtual Wall
"While they were primarily builders and instructors, Seabee Team members were sometimes directly involved in battle. Perhaps the most famous such battle occurred in June 1965 at Dong Xoai, 55 miles northeast of Saigon. When Viet Cong troops overran a Special Forces Camp containing 400 South Vietnamese and allied Asian troops, 11 men of a U.S. Army Special Forces team and nine men of Seabee Team 1104, seven of the Seabees were wounded and two killed. One of the dead was Construction Mechanic 3rd Class Marvin G. Shields, USN, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in carrying a critically wounded man to safety and in destroying a Viet Cong machine gun emplacement at the cost of his life. Not only was Marvin Shields the first Seabee to win the nation's highest award, but he was also the first Navy man to be so decorated for action in Vietnam."
From the Naval Historical Center's
Seabee History: Southeast Asia
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Marvin Glenn Shields (December 30, 1939–June 10, 1965) was the first and only Seabee to receive the Medal of Honor. He was also the first United States Navy Sailor to receive the Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam.
Biography[]
Marvin G. Shields born December 30, 1939, in Port Townsend, Washington, enlisted in the Navy January 8, 1962. Shields graduated from high school in 1958 and had moved to Hyder, Alaska, where he worked the goldmines. After construction training, he served with Mobile Construction Battalion 11, and was with Seabee Team 1104 at Dong Xoai, South Vietnam, June 10, 1965, when a Vietcong regiment attacked. After being wounded, Shields continued to carry up ammunition to the firing line, and after receiving a second wound, insisted on helping a more severely wounded soldier to safety. Refusing to consider himself and now greatly weakened, he again exposed himself to enemy fire, volunteering to help knock out a machine gun which had the entire camp pinned down. Shields died from wounds he received after he and others “succeeded in destroying the enemy ma
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Marvin G. Shields: A selfless hero, remembered
Leader News Staff
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Port Townsend’s local American Legion — Marvin G. Shields Memorial Post No. 26 — is named in memory of one of the areas most notable local heroes.
Namesake Marvin G. Shields was born Dec. 30, 1939 in Port Townsend. “Marv” lived in the family home in Discovery Bay where he also worked at the sawmill. He attended school in Port Townsend, and was a member of the football team. Shields graduated in 1958.
He married his school sweetheart Joan Murray in 1962 and promptly enlisted in the Navy, because, Murray told The Leader in a previous interview, “He was going to get drafted, and he wanted to be a Seabee.”
Shields volunteered for the special Naval Construction Forces, whose members are known as “Seabees.”
Their motto is “We Build, We Fight.”
THE ASSIGNMENT
As a construction mechanic, Petty Officer 3rd Class Shields volunteered for duty in South Vietnam in 1965 with Seabee Team 1104.
The team was assigned