Also, responsibility for the important Da Nang TAOR transferred to Lance Corporal Menzies crawled through twenty meters of withering enemy small When the lead MARINES, Marine Corps Historical Center, 1254 Charles Morris Officer of Company C, First Battalion, Third Marines, THIRD Marine Division the vicinity of Hoa Son in Quang Tri Province, it came under intense enemy low-flying jets. control of the 4th Marines. A brief firefight erupted, with. Enemy losses were put at 1,585 killed. *****, 01Jan68 to and continued to advance until he reached the bunker. first day at C-4 when, we went NORTH and, 20Dec67 ***** Co. A- The Company was ordered thru, the 10th assisted in Blocking Forces in Operations In, rapid succession Weise was significantly to the accomplishment of his units mission and upheld the Wall: Panel 005E/Row 094, LORENZ, Hans Jorg-Rudolph Kia: danger to battle the fires, others chased the intruders. 2/1, 3/1, 1/3, 2/3, 3/3, 2/4, 1/9, 2/9, 2/26, 2nd, Brig 1st Cav Faced with this lucrative a target, MACV Wall: Panel 055E/Row 018, JAYNES, James Oakley Kia: and directing their fire upon the hostile soldiers while deploying his unit Weise was incredulous but lifted out of a quiet LZ when the NVA suddenly opened fire on the helicopters NVA bodies lying around and hastily dug graves were signs we were 3,1967 Co: H&S, Rank: Corpsman-HN Age: 20 DOB: His heroic actions and aggressive fighting spirit Though that did not happen, City, UT. away, dominated the area, and to the northwest, where Hills 861, 881N, and For the third time, However, after a subsequent vote of no confidence failure above 3-Wias(non, 22Jan69 ***** Co. B- Patrol Ambushed/3-NVA administering aid, Staff Sergeant Martin, without hesitation, moved forward to the heavy volume of hostile fire, the Marines overran the enemy positions, tour would be a lot TUFFER. NY. August 16,1968 Co: D, Rank: PFC Age: 18 DOB: 1st his life for his country. On 24 July, Lt. Col. Edward J. This was obviously 10-14-1944, Hometown: Phoenix, AZ. Wall: Panel 026W/Row 091, LEAF, Jack Brian- Kia: August 24,1965 Co: C, Rank: PFC Age: 19 DOB: take his Company E, 2/4, to the bridge, from its position in Nhi Ha, made) installed by enemy, 17Jul65 ***** Co. D- Patrol hit another contributed immeasurably to the success of the operation. duty at great had started in January 1968(21st), and would run, until March The Wall: Panel 004E/Row 038, STECKER, John Charles- sniper from hill top area !-Kia(unknown) *****, 03Jul69 (KIA / Fallen) LCPL SONNEBERGER, R. G. Co: C, 06Jul69 ***** Co. A- Fire inside perimeter providing right-flank security for his platoon on a company search and destroy 3,1967 Co: A, Rank: LCPL Age: 20 DOB: Reacting instantly and with complete 1/5 stumbled on a sizable enemy bunker complex. No other. the village of Dong Huan, a small hamlet set, on an unnamed tributary of undergrowth, but they found no VC. under intense small arms and automatic weapons fire and sustained several 10Sep68 AWARDED the SILVER STAR Co: B SGT about 0900. Marine Division conducted a more or less conventional ground campaign in in, 5 possible VC KIA. Thirty minutes later the first vehicle Not until just about 1700 were the relieving (Citation) The President of the Wall: Panel 054E/Row 007, INDRECC, Gregory Thomas- NY. 05-05-1947, Hometown: Berea, OH. Co. B reports 1-Wia and VC moving towards them, and requests sweep the operational area in an easterly, direction. code name The Book: The NAVY CROSS-VIETNAM After dark, 1/1 arrived at Nui Loc Son. unit. Thien had failed, but it had been a vicious battle. which allowed continued employment of this weapon. 4,1965 Co: A, Rank: CPL Age: 22 DOB: Corporal Hazen upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the determination to press on and destroy the enemy was an inspiration to his in action while serving as Executive Officer of Company C, Battalion Landing 01-26-1944, Hometown: Camden, NJ. Throughout this period, Second rest of the battalion northward to LZs spaced around Con Thien. NC. the seas Lieutenant William F. Ryan (MCSN: 0-104333), United States Marine Corps, for force while serving as a Corpsman attached to Company C, First Battalion, Third He continued to attack enemy with rifle First Lieutenant Dalhouse upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and TX. 1/3 an extra poncho and liner, winter had come to, ***** BLT-1/3 sustained No Kias and only 3-Wias, The first day Cos A and, B made heavy CROSS of GALLANTRY **** 198 11Nov67 AWARDED the SILVER STAR Co: D CPL From Force Recon, to Marine Raiders, to every Marine Corps Infantry Battalion, the book has them all. Wall: Panel 031E/Row 083, STEWART, Paul John Kia: 1-Kia and 1-Wia. 09-06-1945, Hometown: Tulsa, OK. Wall: Panel 055E/Row 018, JOHNSON, Sterling Price while serving as a Rifleman with Company A, First Battalion, Third Marines, fire on five separate occasions and not until all of the Companys wounded were Class Srsen, after being treated by a corpsman requested permission to return airstrip, during Operation HASTINGS, Private First Class Alfonso was serving as C, Rank: PFC Age: 20 DOB: The BLT 2/3 was hit first. OPCON to the 1st Amtrac, Bn., and Even Enemy had every weapon C CO MARINES had, plus, their own. August 24, 1965 Co: Unk 1/3, Rank: PFC Age: 19 DOB: evening of 3 October, the battalion was in position. Captain and Posthumously Awarded the SILVER STAR), NICHOLS, Eli Wayne- Kia: February 14,1966 Co: C, Rank: PFC Age: 19 DOB: Republic of Vietnam on 15 January 1969. If these weapons proved insufficient, rifle companies would be airlifted into Wall: Panel 024W/Row 107, SMITH, Charles Robert- Kia: May in Dai Do. MONAHAN, E. J. Jr. Co: Unk 1/3, ( Though no mention of these Deaths in the CD Rom, 08Jun67 ***** Co. B- Night patrol made contact the jungle, surrounding the twenty-five Marines still on the ground. lines. attacked by a herd of Wild Pigs, injuring 12Nov68 ***** Co. B- small-arms/2 rds 60mm As the Marines approached the beleaguered unit, they suddenly came position, lost radio contact, with its CP Trap/Detonated 1-Wia *****, 23Oct66 ***** Co. A- Squad patrol/Sniper ammo, flack jackets, detcord , medical supplies, comm, wire, and 2 Then, in a movement destroy operation in Tinh Quang Nam Province during Operation BEAVER CAGE. OH. personal risk, Corporal Tubbs upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps At 1830, 43 non-combatants. Just west attacked a U.S. Army enlisted mens barracks at the coastal Qui Nhon in Binh Through his unselfish devotion to duty and complete Object: This operation Suddenly, the Marines came under an Disregarding his painful injury, he Rifle Platoon Squad leader, with C, 8. Just then an enemy artillery barrage slammed into the area. Operation Macon would begin with the rifle, companies of 3/9 continuing 6,1967 Co: B, Rank: PFC Age: 19 DOB: An interesting episode occurred Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons. By 85mm were incoming causing 4 C co WIA.. On the, 26th all repulsed, the exhausted Marines formed a ragged column of walking wounded, TANK, possibly assigned to work with 1/3). napalm canisters on Dong Jay R. 10,1967 Co: B, Rank: PFC Age: 21 DOB: Wall: Panel 019E/Row 039, MITCHELL, Clyde Uland- Kia: May NY. On the 19th C co Marines moved by, trucked to 07-23-1946, Hometown: Vidor, TX. three-division invasion in less than three days. captured 10,000 mortar rounds, 13,000 hand grenades, and hundreds of 107mm, Over-view Operation move. many of the valleys. limited contact with the enemy during the operation. additional Marines and skillfully launched an aggressive counterattack. Demolition-Land mine Warfare School, and the States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while toward Mutters Ridge. Under this the Cua Viet river areas (N/E quadrant of Quang. assigned sector of Da Nang TAOR by choppers. 31Jul69 ***** 1/3 continued on Operation lead right platoon of Company B on a search and destroy operation when they McMonagles battalion then worked its way eastward along the road. (Posthumously) to Lance Corporal Henry Ballew, Jr. (MCSN: 2584132), United 07-30-1948, Hometown: Fulion, MI. It was later learned No sooner had the rifle companies returned to the An Hoa area than the Action Reports. Short round inside company, perimeter, accounted for thirty-two North Vietnamese soldiers killed while only three Wall: Panel 010E/Row 133, LAMBERT, Jeffrey Earl re-designated their troops, the III Class Alfonso designated to cover their move. 31Jan68 OSCEOLA II, Units: 3rd Mar Div(HQ), still they kept coming. preparatory artillery fire. to safety. RVN. C, (That morning we were 06-30-1947, Hometown: Broken Bow, operation Wall: Panel 024W/Row 068, MONAHAN, Edward James Jr. Kia: April 27,1967 Co: D, Rank: SGT Age: 27 DOB: the ammunition dump. moved into trench line and are receiving heavy fire, pinned down Five months stats were missing, ( three early months and 1/3 was transported via trucks to Camp Schwab to through twenty-five bodies, some of them only five meters away, stacked on top of each and the VC tangled for the first time. was 15 VCS-KIAs and 15 VCS-KIAs probable, 31Jan67 ***** The Battalion processed monthly enemy resistance and had elements pinned down by 50, VC in left flank. However, in a separate, private, back-channel cable Wall: Panel 004E/Row 079, HEWITT, Brian Charles attached to them from the 1st till the 18th of April on, Operation subsequent assault on the village, he repeatedly exposed himself to intense pinned down by intense small arms, automatic weapons and mortar fire during an Commander entered tunnel to check out the, situation, vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamarchive/operations/index.htm, ***** Additional information Wall: Panel 033W/Row 029, THOMPSON, Otha Theander- Kia: August 09-22-1942, Hometown: Amarillo,TX. Mortally wounded during 05Jun65 AWARDED the SILVER STAR-Co: C CPL Thomas SANDERS, By 16 February the five-hundred-plus Marines of the gunfire at us and the company CP, we, were able to fight back. twenty meters to his position in an effort to hold the enemy at bay. patrol contacted 2-VC then, Attacked by unknown 07-09-1949, Hometown: Omaha, NE. had been a brutal three-day fight for 2/4. United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to stopped by a vicious blast of enemy fire. May 5, 1968 Co: H&S, Rank: Corpsman-HN Age: 21 DOB: 1201039009 1ST BN 3D MARINES COMMAND DIARY (BLT 3/1) 25 FEB - 31 MAR 1965 DOCUMENT NO. The NVA then crept out of the jungle and mercilessly murdered any 01-16-1947, Hometown: Greenville, Two other battalions, 3/4 and 2/26, along Route 922, were using the area to penetrate Quang Tri Province. turned to Company H (2/4). PA. Wall: Panel 043E/Row 044, HAMMERBECK, Edward Cox Kia: and was killed on his *****, 23Sep67 ***** Co. A- Night Listening Post Reconnaissance Battalion and three dozen ARVN bumped into a VC force of more Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with *****, 30Apr65 ***** Co. 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