The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia, 1961 - 1973, page 261. This USAF sentry dog, NEMO, returned to the United States from Vietnam in July 1967 to a hero's welcome.  The previous December, while on patrol at Tan Son Nhut, he detected four Viet Cong infiltrators, who opened fire and hit both the dog and his handler, A1C Robert A. Throneburg.  Throneburg commanded NEMO to charge.  The powerful Ferman shepherd, despite a head wound, killed to of the intruders.

                                                                                

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