He served 14 months as an Infantryman with the 1 st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, where he received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart. Massacre at Hill 303 is about James Rudd who survived the war crime that took place on August 17, 1950, during the Korean War when 41 U. S. Army prisoners of war were shot and killed by troops of the North Korean Army.