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173D Photo of the Month ~ November-December 2019, Issue 89 See all issues to date at the 503rd Heritage Battalion website: Contact: [email protected] http://corregidor.org/VN2-503/newsletter/issue_index.htm ~ 173d Photo of the Month ~ 52 Years Ago, The Taking of Hill 875 “Denuded of vegetation by the constant bombardment by U.S. planes and artillery, the top of Hill 875 shows the scars of the 21 day battle. 287 Americans lost their lives in the fierce struggle for the hill.” See The Taking of Hill 875, Pages 15-24. 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2019 – Issue 89 Page 1 of 90 We Dedicate this Issue of Our Newsletter in Memory and Honor of the Young Men of the 173d Airborne Brigade & Attached Units We Lost 50 Years Ago In the Months of November and December 1969 “He was in Vietnam because he chose to serve his country, putting the interests of his nation before interests of his own.” Tribute by George W. Jessop III, USMC, RVN 1966-1967, to his fallen buddy Sky Soldier Ricky Buccille, and can be said about all these men. Jerry Tauri Barrett, 27 John Austin “Doc” Bossom, 20 (Birth name Herehere) CPL, E/2/503, 11/30/69 SPR, V4 Co. RNZE, 11/24/69 5/16/15: “A BROTHER REMEMBERED. “Killed in action, 24 November 1969 – John was so devoted to his Army ‘buddies’ claymore mine explosion. Herehere (Jerry) that he had signed up for a longer time was brought up in the Waitomo Caves area there. When he was home for our father's and was a member of the military cadets at school, death in March of 69 he spoke with great feeling and attending camps at Waiouru and Papakura. He joined sadness about his time in Vietnam. He struggled with the Army at aged 17 and completed a plumbing his hatred of war and his care for his fellow soldiers. He apprenticeship with the Corps of Royal New Zealand had nightmares when he was home but worried the Engineers. Posted to Malaysia, he joined V4 Company in whole time about how the rest of the guys were doing. I Vietnam on 8 May 1969. On 24 November 1969 he and still see him in the vets that I talk with in the course of a three other members of V4 were on patrol with an day. We all need to do whatever we can for John's ARVN platoon when they were ambushed. In the ‘buddies’". Joyce Bossom Parmeter ensuing contact, Jerry was killed and Peter Rauhihi mortally wounded. Two other New Zealanders – Ray Allen Roy Brown, 21 Davidson and Patrick Smith – were wounded.” PTE, 6RAR, 12/18/69 “Bendigo VIC. Brown was killed in Arthur Vicary Bermingham, 21 Action at Nui May Tao on 18th December PTE, RNZIR, 11/20/69 1969. Buried Springvale Crematorium “Wounded in action, 12 August 1969 – Melbourne VIC.” mine. Shrapnel wounds to groin and body. Died of wounds in Australia, 20 November Richard Gary Buccille, 22 1969, as a result of wounds suffered 12 SP4, E/20th LRP, 12/20/69 August 1969.” (Virtual Wall states C/75th Rgr) “My friend Ricky was killed in action in James Clark Beaver, 22 Vietnam. He was in Vietnam because he CPL, E/17th Cav, 11/4/69 chose to serve his country, putting the 9/9/16: “BRO. Big Brother, 46 years interests of his nation before interests of his have passed and I still remember your smile own. You see, Ricky didn’t have to be in Vietnam. Ricky so vividly! And your yelling ‘quit being a didn’t have to be in the Army. Ricky was a smart kid baby’, you should know I have tried. Know with a scholarship to play football in college. And Ricky that my karma has not changed, if I do was very good at football. And Ricky went to college something wrong I still get caught - not as much fun and Ricky played football. He could have said it wasn’t without you. Keep watching over me, I find it his war. He could have said he had a future and hid comforting. I still miss you terribly. Love,” Darlene behind that. He could have done a lot of things. But he didn’t. He quit school and enlisted in the Army and went Marten Bink, 25 to Vietnam. Because it was the right thing to do…. L/CPL, 9RAR, 5/11/69 “From Weidum Holland. Bink was killed (Tributes continued….) by a Claymore mine in Phuoc Tuy on 5th November 1969. Eight days before he was due to come home. Buried Canberra 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2019 – Issue 89 Cemetery ACT.” Page 2 of 90 ….I wish I could see Ricky playing for the Steelers this Anthony William Dean, 20 weekend and cheer like an idiot and watch the little SGT, C/4/503, 12/9/69 locomotive plow his way through the defense and say ‘I 11/11/10: “WE REMEMBER. knew him when...’ I wish I could run into him in the Anthony is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Giant Eagle or at the VFW. But I can’t. All I can say is Evansville, IN. BSM ARCOM PH.” Ricky Buccille was my friend and I miss him and I’m very Robert Page proud to have known a man of his stature.” SEMPER FIDELIS Barry Creig Donald, 29 George W. Jessop III, CPT, 161 I.R. Flt, 12/3/69 USMC, RVN 1966-1967 “Sydney NSW. Donald was killed when he was shot down by the enemy during a Robert Buchan, 22 training flight in Phuoc Tuy, 10:30pm 3rd PTE, 5RAR, 12/11/69 December 1969. Buried Ipswich Cemetery “Dundee Scotland. Buchan was shot QLD.” during enemy contact with the enemy just before midday on 11th December 1969 in Roy Allen Epperson, 19 Phuoc Tuy. His ashes were returned to CPL, A/2/503, 11/29/69 Scotland.” 8/13/03: “THANK YOU ROY. Dear Roy, I just wanted to thank you for serving our Walter Guy Burkhart, 21 country and for making such a big CPL, E/20th LRP, 11/11/69 sacrifice. You helped defend our country's (Virtual Wall states C/75th Rgr) freedom and for that I am truly thankful. Your help has 5/25/15: “HEY, BUTCH .. I still helped make a difference for our country. Thank you remember .. how can I not?!!! I'm all again and may God bless you and your family. grown up from that teenage girl .. hell, Sincerely”, Kelsey Zehr I'm an old woman now (can you believe [See newspaper report about Roy on Page 76] that?) .. BUT .. I still remember!! Dena Taylor Thomas Arthur Evans, 21 Nicola “Nick” John Cassano, 22 PTE, HQ 1 ATF (RAINF), 12/25/69 PTE, 5RAR, 12/7/69 “St Albans VIC. Accidentally killed in “Italy. Cassano was killed in action in Phuoc Tuy province when a Land Rover he Bien Hoa Province 7th December 1969. was driving on Christmas Day, 1969 was Buried Karrakatta Cemetery WA.” involved in a single vehicle accident. Buried Woronora Crematorium NSW.” Robert Tom Convery, 22 Bryan Francis Fitzpatrick, 36 LT, 9RAR, 11/23/69 CPL, 2nd Sqd RAAF, 12/3/69 “England. Convery was murdered by a “He was killed in an motor vehicle grenade being placed next to him in his accident on 3rd December 1969. Near tent at Nui Dat around midnight, five days Phan Rang Air Base. Buried Fawkner before he was due to return home on 23rd cemetery NSW.” November 1969. The grenade was placed so that another soldier in the tent was not hurt by the Vivian Albert French, 19 explosion. A soldier was imprisoned for life for his TPR, 3 Cav Regt, 12/8/69 murder. Buried Fawkner Cemetery VIC.” “Brisbane QLD. French was killed in Phuoc Tuy 8th December 1969 when his David Richard Cook, 19 APC hit a mine. Buried Mt Gravett CPL, B/3/319, 11/7/69 Cemetery QLD.” 12/16/14: “TO MY WAR BUDDY CPL COOK. Rest in peace my brother airborne (Tributes continued….) all the way.” Otis Mocan 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Nov.-Dec. 2019 – Issue 89 Page 3 of 90 James Fitzroy Ghee, 20 Everett Ralph Jorens, Jr., 21 CPL, A/4/503, 12/10/69 SGT, B/3/319, 11/15/69 10/5/01: “I MISS YOU. Skeet, I miss 11/20/07: “MY BROTHER. i still miss you. Love always, your brother,” you and if i could have one more day I'd Pee Wee jump for the chance -- you have a lot of nieces and nephews and they have all been told of you -- you have never been Eric George Gould, 22 forgotten -- love as always,” Janet PTE, 8RAR, 12/21/69 “Stratford-on-Avon England. Gould John Henry Kalma, 22 was killed in action in Long Khan Province L/CPL, 1RAR, 12/19/69 on 21st December 1969. The Battalion's “Qeanbeyan ACT. Kalma did two tours first casualty. Buried Ashes sent to U.K.” of Vietnam with 1RAR, in 65-66 and as a Lance Corporal rifleman in 1968 when he John G. Greene, 21 was killed by an enemy Claymore mine in SPR, 1 Fld Sqn, 12/18/69 Bien Hoa on 19th December 1968. Buried Canberra “Paddington NSW. Greene was killed Cemetery ACT.” when an APC hit a mine in Phuoc Tuy on 8th December 1969. Buried Canberra Casimir Kulik, 21 Cemetery ACT.” SGT, B/4/503, 12/12/69 13 Nov 2006: “Sergeant Kulik was John Robert Hagood, 24 killed in action while serving on a three 1LT, C/1/503, 11/1/69 man killer team in the village of Tuy Ahn 12/1/99: “A FRIEND.
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