Rodolfo "Rudy" Hernandez, a U.S. Army paratrooper who received the Medal of Honor after single-handedly carrying out a bayonet assault on enemy forces during the Korean War, died Dec. 21 at a hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was 82.
He had been treated for cancer and other ailments, the Fayetteville Observer reported.
Hernandez was a 20-year-old army corporal when, despite being severely wounded, he leapt from his foxhole and ran toward North Korean troops, armed with nothing more than the bayonet on his disabled rifle.