MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE · 4th Division Honors I.ts Fallen Comrades Camp Enari - The 4th in South Vietnam are here To me it means my · uncle mountains of Burma anCi and that each of us, in our Infantry Division conducted to · deter another form of who gave his ll(e in Europe China in World War II. own way, dedicate himself · a Memorial Day service in communism .. Here I refer to Jn World. War I in· assisting The division commander to. the freedom and security honor of its fallen comrades to :Hanoi's- communism and out British and Fr~hch al.lies concluded by saying, of our own· people as well Tuesday morning in front of its- intent to deprive the in maintaininl) their.:....and "Collectively, we, in the 4th as that of other free p'eople division headquarters. people of South Vietnam of our-freedom. , '?,:.-; '. . Infantry Division have an . throughout the world." With both the American their liberty and their right "It ·also means my. ·ve,ry obligation to uphold. It is ·a Lieutenant Colonel Herbert a~d Vietnamese flags flying· of free expression. In this debt which we owe to those A. Robimon, division adjutant at half-staff, Major General sense each of you is a cru close high school ·and college friend who gave his life il1 of this division who have general, and: Major H9ward - William R. Peers, 4th Divi sader-a crusader of the op fought and have died here M. Hupe, assistant adjutant sion commander, addressed pressed and a protector of the U.S. Army Air Corps in South Vietnam. ' general, then read a rosier tl).e assembled soldiers. those who would be taken over Berlin in World War· II. "It is our obligation to of soldiers from · the 4.th · The general pointed out, over by aggression. And it further includes those insure that their loss_ was Division's · I st · and 2 h d "Those of us in the 4th In "Memorial Day," continu with whom I fought and who not. in. vain; that we ·will Brigades and . th~ 25th.Infantry fantry Division and all other . ed General Peers, "means gave their live~ in the Amer continue our efforts in behalf · Division's 3rd Brigade .who American military personnel many things to many people. ican c~use in the jung l ~s and of the Vietnamese people; were killed in Vietnam: ~JJWYll!JJ:jjj w .FAMOUS FOURT VOJ,. I, No. 30 PLEIKU, VIETNAM JUNE 2, 1967 1st Brigade Companies Kill 133. Enemy In Two Battles Saigon- The heavy fight arms, mortar and approxi Ccmpany B in the same area i,ng of the past week in the mately 70 rounds of rocket reported taking enemy mortar Central. Hjg!1lands. !ias t~per- · fire. · . fire ·from . the -." sou.th ·of· its ed off;. The ·battalion's Company position. Units of the 4th Infantry C linked up with Company B Artillery and.. air strikes Division's I st and 2nd Bri after a long march through were called in as tl1e U.S. gades now report, only light, thick jungle and steep hills. 0 infantrymen linked their sporadic contact ' With the The two companies, along defensive perimeters ·to hold enemy as they continue to with artillery, gunship heli back repeate.d· charges. by the conduct Operation Francis copters and air. strikes, turn enemy. 'The enemy broke , Marion. ed back th e North Viet contact at 12: 12 p.m. Ivy troops from the I st namese ground attack after The results were 96 NVA Brigade battled enemy forces the enemy bad assaulted their and Ip t.J:s. personnel killed, May 24 and last Friday perimeter; The enemy broke . 54 . U.S. soldirrs wounded PIGGY-BACK STYLE before contact . ea~ed off. A contact at 5:50 p.m. and 20 individual and IO Specialist 4 Donald Van Hook {Manchester, Ga.), an total of 133 enemy were U.S. · troops · fom;id 35 · crew-served Y{tapons seized. advisor. from the Military Assistance Command; Vietnam, killed in the two battles. enemy bodies and captured working with the 4th Division, helps a disabled .Montagnard At 4: 12 p.m. May 24, Com six rifles, two B-40 rocket villager 'to an awaiting helicopter from the 52nd Aviation pany B of the 3rd )3attalipn, launchers and five B-40 3rd . Brigade. rocket r.ounds. Five infantry Battalion, as the villagers . mov~ from one of thei'r' villages 12th Infantry, . lQc ated ·56 to the Government of Vietnam-protected Edap E11ang kilometers west·southwest of men were killed and 14 Units Begin resettlef'!ent · grea. (USA Photo by PFC Steve Frye)_ · Pleiku, took heavy small wounded. A muiti-company force Diamond Head CIVIC ACTION IN RE.VERSE from the 3rd l:lattalion, 8th Irifantry battled an unknown Saigon - Uuits of the 3rd size force of NV A regulars Brigade, 4th Infantry Divi last Friday. sion are conducting Oper Monta.gnards .Landsc·ap~ Area For Engineers Company C, sweeping ation Diamond Head in Tay By Sp4 James E., Brunko · and flowers have been plant hands." Hill 521 just to the west of Ninh Province, it was an Camp Enari - Fifteen ed so as to form two engineer Second Lieutenant Marion Chu Coungot Mountain, 53 nounced Sunday by the U.S. Montagnards from the village castles and two 4th Division E. Dickerhoof (Trinidad, kilometer's southwest of Pleiku Military Assistance Com of La Son recently volun patches. The '_ enthusiastic . Colo.), the battalion civil af City, engaged the enemy at mand. teered to landscape the area villagers worked . for two. fairs of.ficer, added, "The 8:55 a.m. No major contact bas been in front of the 4th Engineer days on the project. · officers and men of the 4th From 9:50 to I 0:25 a.m. reported in the multi-bat Batta,lion Headquarters to E11gineer Battalion were talion operation which was The Montagn:ird "civil show their appreciation for -honored to have the people initiated May 16' in an area affairs'" team was led by Mr. the civil affair11 activities and: of La Son show their feelings 26 kilometers.north-northwest Le Unn, mayor of La Son; The "Ivy Leaf," which projects carried out in their 1 i.n such a pleasant and color of Tay Ninh City. · · village by tlie men of the 4th Mr. Vo Hua, chief. of police, ful way. has been published in an!f Sergeant an Army Two enemy and 14 U.S. Engineer Battalion. Ic~s, "The growth _of the plants Saigon, is In the pro of the Republic ' of Vietnam · infantrymen have been killed and flowers can be likened The villagers landscap~d a soldier and · the: battalion's cess of moving to a . and nine U.S. soldiers wound 1,700 square-foot area, sup interpreter. to : th e friendship exis.ting printing plant In .Tokyo. ed. Ivy troops have captured plying all th~ plants, flowers, between the people of La It was obvious that; as The next Issue Is three individu.~I weapons and and shrubbery necessary for San and the soldiers of the detained three suspects. the project. Sergeant Ichs · put it, "The 4th ·Engineer Battalion :which tenatlvely scheduled ta villagers were pleased to has and will continue to appear June I I. Diamond Head is under The actual landscaping show us how skillful they grow and blossom,'" said "the the or1erational control of the is unique in that the plants were with their tools and lieutenant. · 25th Infantry Division. Page 2 IVY LEAF June 2, 1967
COMMANDER'S NOTE.: Stop That Thief STEADFAST 1 ca11 reca"ll fro111 111y earliest days of service lhal·old barrllck's adage ilia/ if you can't trust .your bud_dy AND with your wallet, you can'I trust flim wilfl your life. [Jere i11 Viel11a111 l/1is adage has been brouglil /iome agai11 be cause we are in a situation where each day LOYA·L you 11111 sl lrusl your budd!J with your life. )Jul there is still the q11eslio11, ca11 1 lrusl hi111 with my Iva/lei? l' m sorry lb say that the division has experienced .fi111111l1111111111111111111mu111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111nu111111111111111111111111 1111111111111,111111111K111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~ a si,q11ifica11t number of larcenies of private property Silver Star Capt. Ronald H. Thornquist-Co B, 4th. Avn Bn and 1ito11ay. fo mast cases the larceny occurred wherein Capt. Norman J. Dzingleski.:...co B, 4tb Avn Bn an in HIT iT!- During a probe of.enemy. terrain; Private WHISPERING DIRECTIONS - The Long First Class Leon N. Roberts {San Anto11io}, left, Range Reconnaissance Patrol team of the 4th Div( GERONIMO!- Private First Class Rich- and Private First Class john Hyers {Massopeq11a, . ard IVright (Streator, Ill.) of the ·4th Divi- . sion's I st Brigade lays and 11/aits in the jungle of N. Y.) head for cover after they were spotted by the Central Highlands for artillery fire to blast a sion's fst Brigade Long Range Reco1mais North Vietnamese in the area who gave chase. The sance Patrol-leaps from a "slick" helicopier North Vietnamese position. Private First Class primary job of the men of the 4th Division's /st Thomas Lara .II I {San Francisco), :right foreground, as thz . re:on team .prepares to enter the Brigade . Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol is to directs the artillery fire by · field phone during -eneiny's lair. Tilt action took plaet duririg recon and not engage ·the enemy unless absolutely Operation Francis Marion. Operation Fra1c.is ,' Marion. · necessary. EXTRACTION UNDER FIRE-While 4th Division gunships and artillery fire zero in on KEEP IN' LOW-Specialist 4 Donald Rinehardt (B11rling- the enemy's position, a "slick" helicopter hovers to extract members of the I st Brigade 1on, N.J.) of the Ivy Division's fst Brigade Long Range Longe Range Re~onnaissance Patrol after they had located an enemy element patrolling an Reconnaissance Patrol calls into his command post abo11t enemy activity in the jungle north of Pleifiu. The recon area 11orth of Pleiku. Private First Class Thomas Lara III lends a helping hand to his team was porticipating in Operation Francis Marion in the comrade, Private First Class Richard Wright, as Private First Class Willimn Campos {San Central Highlands. · Francisco) keeps a sharp watch for the onrushing enemy. Page 6 IVY LEAF June: 2, 1'96 i 3/12th Companies Withstand Attack By North Vietnamese By PFC Jerry Redding gear, and getting ready to only _15 to 20 meters away. 0 Le Thanh - Company A, tear down their bunkers. Sud- We could see them, creeping 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry denly, according to Specialist up through the grass, hurling was· expecting something to Dixon, "We heard them drop- grenades at our positions, We break all night. ping mortars down the tubes. were fo,tunate in our bun- The I vym en had been sud "! took off for my foxhole ker, we just kept firing . and denly diverted to join Com as fast as I could go. I didn't no_bne got close enough to pany B wh ich had already bother to pick up my' pictures; hurt us, " Specialist Dixon received heavy sniper fire ·just got out of the open and recalled. while setting up a perimeter started firing as fast as I saw As s6on as the rain stop- for the night. a target.'' ped, the jets came in, spray- Upon arriving they imme Specialist Dixon, a· grenadier , . ing the area with bullets and diately set about digging in with the !st Platoon, con- b~mbs . The NVA began to for the nlght. Since Com tinued, "I carry 60 grenades pull back, their taste for battle pany B had al ready established with me; there hours later, · 'dtilled by the tenacity of the a perimeter, the men of when the_fighting stopped, I 3/! 2th infantrymen and the Company A merely extended had only 25 left.'' jets, Skyraiders, an"d gun- it by constructing their own Soon after the attiick started circular perimeter attached shi ~ s. the rain begai\ 'to. fall. The infantrymen Com to Bravo, forming a figure ;';rhe ~f ; low cloud-"'. ce"iling · which · pany A began to breath easier. eight. . . brought the rain made air "Yes, I even had time to · The night and · w ~·~¥lear support· impossible. But, the retrieve my plctures from the warm. Hardly -'ilWrecze stir men of the 3rd Battalion, 12th · other side of the· perimeter," . red the elephant where · -g'ia ~ s Infantry fought doggedly, added the smiling Specialist the men lay wait!_hg "'in their holding their positions for Dixon. "Then it was back . bunkers. A smal! strtam ran two hours. to · work, moppi~g ·up, just through _the gently sloping 1 valley in front of them. ' They were close, at times l_ik e after ·every . battle." Years of erosion had turn ed the streain bed into. a WHAT LIES AHEAD? small gully. Beyond that, 5 0 The · ·engineers of_ Companies D and Hea:Iquarters, 4th meters away, the treeline Engineer Battali6n conduct a sweep for mines on a road cast dark shadows in the leading from the Special Forces camp of Plei Me to the moonlight. · 4th Division'! Camp Enari. In an operation that took fit•e All night long they waited. days, the engineers leveled and graded the road, making it With the light of morning ready for passage d11ring the coming monsoon season. (USA would come inaudible sighs, Photo by Sp4 Richard Obermaier) at least they could see what they were, shooting at, if the occasion presented itself. And 1/22nd 'Regulars' Rest it would, if not tod~y, then · tomorrow or the next day. Specialist 4 Wayne E. At Division Base Camp Dixon (West Collingswood Camp Enari - Elements evening entertainment. Heights, N.J.) wandered of the · I st Battalion, 22nd Post exchange personnel across the perimeter to the Infantry returned to-. the 4th cooperated with the program Company B portion of the Division's Camp Enari for by admitting only 1st Bat line. He had finished his the first time in more than . talion, 22nd Infantry person breakfast of C-rations and was five months recently for a nel d u r i n g pre designated looking for a buddy. seven-day perjod of rest and hours. In his pockets were sev refitting. "The purpose of the rest eral new pictures from home. Beginning with Company and refitting period was Specialist Dixon pulled the C the units flew individually obvious," commented Captain ·pictures out of his wallet as from their isolated forw ard J~mes B. Stapleton Jr., Ccm he sat down, propped against fire support base to begin pany C commander. "Morale his buddy's bunker. their week of refaxation on a has gone up immeasureably. Elsewhere men were still rotation basis, It's almost like having a new eating, savoring the last drops unit." · of hot coffee, packing their Inspections were scheduled during ·the morning hours for both men and equipment. Worn or missing articles Mail The · IVY LEAF Home were r e p I a c e d . Vehicles, weapons and radios received FROM:------~-- a thorough preventive main Postage tenance check. 3rd Class 4 cents Comm and information -----·-·------·-················· classes pertaining to t h e Air Mail 8 cents Uniform Code of Military Ju~tice, income tax require ments and piaster control TO= ------~- WASHDAY MIRACLE were given. ·Specialist 4 john S. Ashworth . (Largent, Tenn.), 8/mm ------~------T h e ''Regu1 ars" .w e re mortar sq 11 ad leader with th e Ivy Division's Company' A , extended all possible priv _I st Battalion, I 2th Inf art try finds time during a lull ·at ileges during the week. Passes Fold paper th ree times and secure edge s the batt alion's fire support base to wash his fatigues.· Scenes were issued as frequently as with staple o r tape b e fore mailing. Doe s such as this are common thro11ghout the forward area wh ere possible. Company ·· parties not meet. requirements for " free" mail. the 4th Division . is w esently enp,nged in Operation Fr11nr;is and floor shows provided Mario n. (USA Photo by Maj. ·Daniel R. Zenk) l-..1 'r_J·rf ./ t l_'.t