Oxnard house troops dismounted and cleared

1st Marines was loaded onto trucks and sent to reinforce United States and South Vietnamese forces under siege in Hu. As the convoy approached the southern suburbs of the city, they began to come under increased sniper fire. In one village, the troops dismounted and cleared the houses on either side of the main street before proceeding. The Marine convoy stopped several times to eliminate resistance in heavy house-to-house and street-to-street fighting before proceeding again.

During this fighting the Company commander, Captain Gordon Batchellor was wounded and Gunnery Sergeant Canley assumed command of the company and he and Sergeant Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez led the Marines in the defense of the convoy, actions for which Gonzalez would later be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. At about 1515 after bloody fighting the Marines managed to make their way toward the besieged Military Assistance Command Vietnam MACV compound Canley was awarded the Navy Cross.

Defense Jim Mattis recommended the upgrade to President Donald Trump, who approved the award in July 2018. On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Major John L. Canley, United States Marine Corps Retired, for conspicuous gallantry

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