First person to earn Air Force-designed Medal of Honor dies

Col. Bernard Fisher, the first person to earn the Air Force designed Medal of Honor, has passed away.

Fisher was awarded the Medal of Honor for risking his life to save a fellow pilot by landing his A-1E on an airfield controlled by the enemy during 1966 in Vietnam.

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