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Jimmy Nakayama was a US soldier in Vietnam, 1965. After being hit in a friendly fire airstrike, Nakayama was rescued by reporter Joe Galloway who described how Jimmy's skin peeled off his legs when he tried to lift him. Nakayama died that week two days shy of 22 and the same week his wife gave birth

by /u/Creepy-Strain-803 in /r/USHistory

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