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Obituary - Dr. Paul McNeary,
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List of Bravo KIA Soldiers by year.
Click for 1/20 KIAs by company.
Click here
for 1st Plt B-1/20's SSG Lester R. Stone's Memorial and Medal of Honor Citation
KIA 03 March 69.
The Sgt. Lester Stone, JR.VFW Post is in Windsor, NY and American Legion Post
1596 telephone No. (607)693-1944 in his hometown of Harpursville, NY (both near
Binghamton, NY) have memorials dedicated to him.
Click here for link to Cpl. Larry J. White's Memorial on Virtual Wall (KIA 30 June 69).
B-1/20 group photo (June '69?) from SGT Al Curtis, and I will post more from him about the 31 Dec 68 and 30 June 69 WIA/KIAs shortly. I have his phone No. and email if anyone wants to contact him.
SGT Vin Anyzeski and Mike White (Larry White's brother who wants to contact anyone there for photos, maps, etc.) write that Bravo had many casualties on 30 June 69: KIAs Jerome Ernie Tucker, James Walter Jones (medic and second killed helping Larry White), Ronald Edward Robertson, Glen Ervin Poteet, Robert Joseph Coleman, John Dennis Morrissey, SSG Michael Edward Fowler; WIAs Louis Denfee, David VanBuskirk, James Adams, Donnie Black, Willian McMann, John Brayley, Carlos Archuleta, James Scott, Edwin Badillo, Terry Ward, Gerald Whitehead, Keith Kolozie, Joaquin Garcia, Jerry Allen, Larry Sterns, Wayne Nordell, Bill Vanhorn, Robert Hughes, Jim Timmerman, Larry Hunziker, WIlliam Cantrell, Robert Stevens. The Co Co's were John Hill and Cpt Newbury was CO on night of 30 June 69. I plot the grid as "Nui Dat" a hilltop 1 1/2 klicks northeast of NVAs L 17 Bn marked on a map setforth below. In my opinion, if I were the NVA commander, I would have mined it to prevent someone setting up a mortar position there.
Click here for Sgt Moehring's DSC citation.
Click here Cpt Power's DSC citation.
CLICK HERE for Doc Illingworth's rememberance of CPT Powers.
CLICK HERE for CPT Glover's rememberance of CPT Powers.
01 Apr 71: time 1235 following heat casualities: Braziel, Dynon, (new man?), Brown, Mace. time 1800 another casualty name(H.?).
B-1/20s MIA. On 26 Dec 69 at 2130 B's 24 ele ambushed a VC/NVA element with US casualties of Mathieson WIA and Manchester MIA. Search recovered damaged M16 and PRC 25 radio and unidentifiable body parts; drew many VIP visits from Bde and Division. Maj. Honjiyo convened an investigation board. One month later, his body was found in a river and id'd by the dogtag in his boot.
12 Oct 68 Bravo took 7 KIAs on Batangan Peninsula as follows:
Sgt Gary Culbertson, SSG Joe Cardenas, Cpl Robert Faccio, Sgt Drew Fiedler,
PFC Walter Golembiewski, Sgt Juan Martines, Sgt Robert Sanchez (all dead by
BT mines-said to be set in 1967 by ROK Marines, but the ROK's map was lost at
Division. The background is that Bravo relieved Alpha after Alpha took many
casualties there i.e., Alpha down to 60 men. Then, Bravo was sent to take the
high ground and ran into the minefield.).
Click here for map of 12 Oct 68 fight
on Batangan Peninsula (South of Chu Lai on S. China Sea) at grid approx 664048.
Click here for MACV Tm-17 SOIC journal 27 Oct 70 and killings of 2 Japanese and one lady at Quang Ngai (can anyone decipher it?) I note that Japanese photo-journalist Kyoichi Sawada and UPI bureau chief J. Frank Frosch are listed as captured and KIA 26-28 Oct 70 in Cambodia. Gloria Emerson, NY Times reporter wrote "Winners and Losers".
Sgt. Lupe Velasquez received the Silver Star Award in 2008 - 34 years after it was earned.
CLICK HERE to view the article that appeared in the Fort Lupton Press, Colorado, on November 19th, 2008.
CLICK HERE to view the Silver Star Award for Sgt. Lupe Velasquez.
LTC "DOC" Illingworth is being put in for the Silver Star for his actions on 12 Oct 70 after CPT Powers was killed-31 years late-He was seriously wounded on 03 Dec 70 in Song Ve Valley and wants to contact 3rd Plt Bravo personnel.
Statement by Arty F.O. Tom Glover in support
of LTC "Doc" Illingworth's Silver Star.
CLICK HERE for Tom Glover's Ltr to the Editor for Veteran's
Day 2001 in the Lexington, KY newspaper.
CLICK HERE for LTC Illingworth's statement - warning it's graphic in nature.
CLICK HERE for LTC Illingworth's poems "Lobster Six" and "A Silver Star and 50 Cents" (read columns up and down, left to right)
CLICK HERE Col Honjiyo's eyewitness account of 12 Oct 70.
CLICK HERE Col Honjiyo's statement for LTC Illingworth's Silver Star.
CLICK HERE SSG Hank Stewart's statement.
CLICK HERE for map of Song Ve AO
CLICK HERE for S3 journal of 12
Oct 70
CLICK HERE for S3 journal of 13 Oct 70