Widow Receives Medal Touring Units As Marines Honor Hero Mrs
Chief of Staff Widow Receives Medal Touring Units As Marines Honor Hero Mrs. Nancy Koelper of Kai- in the cause of peace and liber- For Briefings lua, accepted a Republic of ty, and has earned the undying Viet Nam Honor Medal, First gratitude of the Republic of Col. Regan Fuller, former Southeast Asia Plans and Class, from LtGen. V.H. Vietnam.", Chief, Krulak, FMFPac CG, Monday As a military advisor to Policy Section, Plans Division J-5, at CINCPAC, assumed during ceremonies honoring the Vietnamese, then Capt. the late Maj. D.E. Koelper at Koelper, saw a Vietnamese duties Tuesday as Brigade of Staff. Platt Field. drop a bomb into the lobby of Chief Brigade Marines passed in the Capitol Kinh-Do Theater Col. Fuller succeeds Col. review as jets screamed by in in Saigon. Donald J. Robinson who de- final tribute to Maj. Koelper. He quickly ran into the thea- parted for duty at Marine The Vietnamese medal, ter shouting: "Everyone get Corps Schools, Quantico, Va. one of the Republic's high- down! There's a bomb!" assuming duties as est, was awarded Maj. The warning was credited After Koelper who was killed Feb. with saving the lives of many Chief of Staff Tuesday, Col. POSTHUMOUS AWARD-Mrs. Nancy Koelper accepts the Republic 16 while warning a theater of the 500 persons in the thea- Fuller was briefed on the or- ganization and mission of of Viet Nam's Honor Medal, First Class, posthumously awarded to audience in Saigon of the ter, but the Viet Cong terror- her late husband, Maj.
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