October - December 2020, Issue 94 See all issues to date at the 503rd Heritage Battalion website: Contact:
[email protected] http://corregidor.org/VN2-503/newsletter/issue_index.htm ~ Sky Soldier Photo of the Month ~ ~ Soldiers resting at a Bunker atop Hill 875 in South Vietnam ~ “Rests Exhausted Body. Dak To, South Vietnam: An exhausted U.S. soldier, rifle in hand and ammunition case within reach, sits on a bunker with his head draped between his knees in this recent photo. A moment of quiet atop the much fought-for Hill 875 afforded the GI a moment's rest.” See Page 15 for Presidential Unit Citation, and Issue 47 of November 2012 for detailed 125-page report on Operation MacArthur and the battles at Dak To in November ‘67. 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Oct. – Dec. 2020 – Issue 94 Page 1 of 53 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 October thru December 1970 “The time has come for me to change, from what I am to what I will be, and from thereafter, the world will see me.” Leonard Allan Lanzarin, 20, SP4, A/2/503, KIA 11/4/70 Ralph Wood Basnight, 22 Thomas Cooper, 22 SGT, B/4/503, 11/20/70 PTE, RNZIR, 10/11/70 1/8/09: “Rest in Peace. So sorry to “Taupiri Mountain, Ngāruawāhia. lose a friend and neighbor. We grew up Wounded in action, 10 October 1970 – together, played together, went to school gunshot wound in friendly fire incident.