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50 Years Ago….When They Were Young & Paratroopers January-February 2016, Issue 65 See all issues at the 503rd PRCT Heritage Battalion website: Contact: [email protected] http://corregidor.org/VN2-503/newsletter/issue_index.htm 50 Years Ago….When They Were Young & Paratroopers ABOVE, Đồng Tháp Mười, THE PLAIN OF REEDS: Fifty years ago on 2 January 1966, the 2/503d conducted an aerial assault onto hot LZ Wine in the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta to commence their role in Operations Marauder & Crimp. A year later on 22 February 1967, the 2nd Battalion along with Sky Soldiers from attached units would make their historic combat jump during Operation Junction City. Airborne, All The Way! (Web photos) 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Jan.-Feb. 2016 – Issue 65 Page 1 of 83 We Dedicate this Issue of Our Newsletter in Memory of the Men of the 173d We Lost 50 Years Ago in January & February 1966 “It is our job to remember.” Mark Carter, 173d LRRP/E-17th Wallace Edwin Baker Ruben Cleveland Alston Jerry Nelson Hughes 1/2/66 B/2/503 1/2/66 HHC/2/503 1/10/66 E-Troop Gerald Levy Walter Edwin McIntire John William Thomas 1/2/66 B/2/503 1/2/66 B/2/503 1/10/66 C/1/503 Gary Franklin Lewis Johnny H. Leake Jose Gotera Birco 1/2/66 B/2/503 1/2/66 A/2/503 1/11/66 A/1/503 Arthur Cavanagh Larry Joseph Nadeau Robert George Smith 1/11/66 A/1/503 1/2/66, HHC.2.503 1/2/66 A/2/503 (Virtual Wall states (Virtual Wall states Charlie) C/1/503) Juvencio Torres-Acevedo Jerry Wayne Morton 1/2/66 B/2/503 Richard C. Amato 1/2/66 B/2/503 (Virtual Wall states Alpha) 1/11/66 A/1/503 (Virtual Wall states 3/319) Joseph Earnest Hipp Elliott Lynn Merkle Noel Michael Bartolf 1/11/66 A/1/503 1/2/66 B/2/503 1/2/66 B/2/503 (Virtual Wall states (Virtual Wall states HHC) C/1/503) Jack Denton Bixby George E. Geoghagen Noble D. McGehee 1/2/66 B/2/503 1/2/66 C/2/503 1/11/66 A/1/503 Raynald Jimenz Amador Jack Elsworth Locke Lamar D. Frederick 1/11/66 D/16th 1/26/66 A/2/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 Willie James Robinson 1/11/66 A/1/503 Simmie Bellamy, Jr. Irvin Clarke, Jr. & 2/26/66 A/2/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 William E. Jordan, III 1/11/66 A/1/503 Marvin Bonney Smith, Jr. Robert L. Hoskins, Jr. Johnson Francis Frank 1/11/66 A/1/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 (Virtual Wall states C/1/503) Gerald Lee Dailey Clarence Mitchell Thomas C. Brewer, Jr. 1/11/66, A/1/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 (Virtual Wall states HHC) Richard Earl Harper William M. Tarbell Charlie Daniels 1/12/66 B/2/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 (Virtual Wall states C/1/503) Anderson Harold Key Elmer Eugene Berry Edward Stephen Graves 1/12/66 B/1/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 2/27/66 A/2/503 Laurence Nelson Sousa Jack Landen Himes Joseph John Reilly 1/15/66 D/16th 2/26/66 A/2/503 2/27/66 A/2/503 Raymond L. Bowen, Jr. Ronald C. Cavinee Timothy Wayne Aikey 1/24/66 HHC/2/503 2/26/66 A/2/503 1/2/66 B/2/503 (Virtual Wall states A/Bde Admin) Sources: 173d Society KIA List & Virtual Wall Five of the new guys were in my squad. Three of the Thirty Days Left five were: PFC Gary Wright; PFC Chambers (I hate to admit it but I can't remember Chamber's first name); by Craig Thompson | Permalink and Corporal "Dickie Bird" Byrd. They all came into the December 15, 1996 company mid-April. Before they got there, my squad had been reduced to basically a fire team. With the ome of the details have replacements, we went up to a full-sized rifle squad. become clouded with Byrd, being a Corporal, became one of my team Stime. But this is how I leaders. He was on his second tour of RVN. Almost a remember it. Not for the year earlier (May 6, 1968) as part of B/2/503d 173d squeamish. ABN BDE, he had been wounded when a 750 lb. bomb On May 3, 1969, I had 30 fell 300 meters from the intended target onto Bravo's days left on my tour. When I position. Byrd had been evacuated to Japan and then first got in-country, infantry- Recent photo of Craig transferred to the 82nd at Fort Bragg. Now he was back men were pulled out of the with Bravo. field and given an assignment in the rear when they had Chambers and Wright had taken the traditional route 30 days left on their tour. This was "short." That had to 1st tour service with the Herd -- Basic, AIT, Jump changed, at least in our unit, though by the time my School, 30 days leave and then "Good Morning Viet turn came around in 1969, we stayed in the field until Nam." their last week or so. On the morning of May 3, our three platoons (Lima, That morning I was just one day closer to home. Mike, November) were taking different routes towards Late April and early May of '69 had not been a good a rendezvous point several klicks to the east. time for B/2/503d 173d Airborne Brigade. Not that Well, Mike Platoon hadn't gone very far when they anytime was good. came into contact with a small VC unit (one BAR and We had a lot of turn-over in April -- guys rotating maybe 3-4 SKS/AK). No one was hit by small arms fire home and of course casualties. From April 27th (when but during fire-and-maneuver one of our guys tripped a Rodger Koefod was killed in an ambush) through May wired frag left behind by the VC and Mike Platoon had 3d, I think we took casualties every day. By May 3d two guys hit (though not especially seriously). probably one third (maybe more) of our company was November (my platoon) went about a half klick past made up of guys with less than 30 days in country. Mike to the left with a tree line for cover and then got on line and attempted to flush the VC towards Mike. Rodger Magnus Koefod Didn't work. The VC had gone farther than we thought Corporal and weren't caught between the two platoons. So the CO decides we should keep moving east with Mike trailing us. A few hours later, Lima reaches the rendezvous point (the east end of a small village) before the rest of us, and reports that they have found an empty ammo can (the kind that M-60 ammo came in) sitting on the side of the road (more of a path really) at the west end of the village. I remember groaning when I heard that. If they knew it was empty, it meant that someone had been stupid enough to have looked inside -- and was damn lucky not to have blown to bits by a booby-trap. B CO, 2ND BN, 503RD INFANTRY After a short break, we move out as a company with 173RD ABN BDE, USARV Lima taking lead. They hadn't gone very far (probably Army of the United States only a few feet past where the ammo can was found) Moscow, Idaho when their pointman sets off a mine and has both legs July 07, 1948 to April 27, 1969 blown off below the knees. (continued…) 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Jan.-Feb. 2016 – Issue 65 Page 4 of 83 After Dust-off, November takes point and headed shot of what must have been morphine and moves on southeast. to Chambers. About noon the company stops in place and breaks I don't know if morphine is something to give a guy for lunch. Mike Platoon (with the CO) is just south of going into shock (I suspect not) but Doc probably saw the road about 300 meters to the north. Lima is about a that Byrd was dead even if he hadn't yet drawn his last hundred meters behind us to the west. November had breath. been moving in line with 1st squad on point and 2nd One of the guys starts to patch up Byrd anyways. squad trail. About 75 meters or so to the south, across Chambers is in better shape. He's not conscious at a dry paddy, there is a creek bed. I tell Byrd to send an least, but his guts are torn up as well and he has a OP out to a clump of trees along the creek bed. He sucking chest wound. decides to go himself and takes Wright and Chambers The medivac chopper arrives and I stand out in the (who carries a radio). Everyone else drops their ruck paddy directing him in; but he won't come to where we and starts to eat (actually half ate while the others kept are. The pilot's afraid that we are in a minefield and he watch, etc.). won't even hover over it.
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