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~ 2/503D Photo of the Month ~ 51 Years Ago January-February 2018, Issue 77 See all issues to date at 503rd Heritage Battalion website: Contact: [email protected] http://corregidor.org/VN2-503/newsletter/issue_index.htm ~ 2/503d Photo of the Month ~ 51 Years Ago “Sky Soldiers of the 2/503rd along with troopers from other 173d units make their combat jump in Vietnam, February 22 1967, the first U.S. mass parachute combat jump since the Korean War at that time.” 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Jan.-Feb. 2018 – Issue 77 Page 1 of 87 We Dedicate this Issue of Our Newsletter in Memory and Honor of the Men of the 173d Airborne Brigade & Attached Units We Lost 50 Years Ago in the Months of January & February 1968 ~ For the Fallen ~ “They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them….” Laurence Binyon Marvin Walter Ayres, 23 Lawrence Clifford Bloom, 20 PTE, 7RAR, 2/5/68 SGT, A/Spt, 1/26/68 “Private. Marvin (Mick) Walter Ayres “Memories of Cliff. Having gone to from Sydney NSW. A batman when he High School and worked alongside you was killed in action in Bien Hoa Province and your dad, Al, at the Exeter Inn...I want on 5th February 1968. Rookwood others to know of your great sense of Military Cemetery, NSW.” humor, winning smile and willingness to help others. You entered the service knowing full well George Terrance Baines that you would probably end up in Viet Nam but felt you SGT, RAINF, 2/13/68 had to go for all of us. I think of you often and someday “1 SAS Squadron SASR - Sergeant. the old ‘Inn’ gang will be all together.” George Terrance (Chicka) Baines. From Patricia Daley Edgerly Sydney NSW. On 2nd March 1967 he was the troop Sergeant Patrol James Calvin Bodison, 19 Commander with A Troop. He was PFC, D/4/503, 1/30/68 accidentally killed in the Nui Dat Task Force area on “Memorial Day 2012. In the fall of February 13 1968 when a M26 grenade exploded. 1986 I passed a small, overgrown, little Buried Woronora Crematorium, NSW.” used Black cemetery in Rural Colleton Cnty., SC. A brush fire had burned off the Alex Ernest James Bell, 21 undergrowth revealing a military head- PTE, 7RAR, 1/29/68 stone on the grave of PFC James Calvin Bodison USA KIA “Private Alec Ernest James Bell, from at age 19 in the Republic of Vietnam. Perth WA. Bell died at 24 US Evacuation Over the years Judy and I placed an American flag on Hospital, Long Binh, on 29th January this grave for Memorial Day. Several times my grand- 1968 of wounds received during an son Dustin did the honors. He learned the true meaning enemy contact in Bien Hoa. Buried of Memorial Day. Karrakatta Cemetery, WA.” After Judy passed I was unable Joe Leslie Biffle, Jr., 19 to continue this as my disabilities SP4, C/Spt, 1/21/68 made it difficult to walk in the “We remember. Joe is buried at uneven and overgrown cemetery. Valley View Cemetery, Cooke County, Today my son Pat and I and my TX.” Robert Sage great grandson Christopher went to the cemetery. Christopher, wearing his Cub Scout uniform, Raymond Paul Binning, 21 placed the American flag on the PTE, 2RAR, 1/26/68 grave. He learned the true cost of “Private Raymond Paul Binning from freedom and what the Memorial Day holiday really Adelaide SA. Binning was killed in action means.” LCDR Millard J. Driscoll MSC USN Ret in Bien Hoa Province 26th January 1968, at the height of the Tet Offensive. His (tributes continued….) brother also served in Vietnam with 3RAR. Buried Centennial Park Adelaide, SA.” 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Jan.-Feb. 2018 – Issue 77 Page 2 of 87 Donald Wayne Bornman, 20 defenders that stood between us, Tweety was trapped SGT, B/3/503, 1/5/68 in a crossfire of AK-47 bullets. He died instantly. “Donnie was an amazing funny guy and My platoon got wiped out that day in what came to we all hung out and he and Ronnie and be known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Tweety’s Gary France were in a band called Sonics platoon suffered extensive losses as well. We did and it was fun and a wonderful time. It succeed in routing the enemy by nightfall, but were was so sad to learn of his death. He was forced by darkness to leave our dead comrades where like a brother - my two brothers also played music and they had fallen. The next morning we retrieved his body what a great time everyone had playing pool and music. along with many other exceptional soldiers and listed I know Donnie would have been an amazing man and their official death as February 13th. would have been very successful but he made the most To this day I have not reconciled myself to the reality sacrifice by serving his country and giving his life for of human events that brought me home and allowed each of us. He was a man of honor. I was Pat Michaels Tweety to die in some forsaken land. Nor will I ever and was a friend.” Patricia Michales Hausman Walters forget all of those fine soldiers who perished in that damn jungle. ~ Tweety…the Marine Sky Soldier ~ May our Lord grant him eternal peace, and may his Eugene Michael Campion, 26 soul forever bask in the loving light of our God SGT, A/1/503, 2/13/68 Almighty.” “You are not forgotten. Eugene Scott H. Smith Michael Campion was first platoons A CO., 1ST BN., 503rd Infantry RTO and a damn fine soldier. For years 173rd Airborne Brigade (SEP) after his death I wondered if anyone “Eugene was born at Bottineau, North Dakota in would ever write his eulogy. For very few 1942. After graduating in 1960 from Minneapolis people knew Eugene by his given name, but the whole Central High School in Minnesota, Sgt Campion began a company knew him by his nickname of Tweety. At a 4 year enlistment with the US Marines. In 1965 he Brigade reunion, a friend who served in Tweety’s joined the US Army and served in Vietnam until 1967, platoon finally cleared up the anonymity. when he was transferred to Germany for jump training. Tweety was laid-back, with a constant smile, and an Upon his request Eugene was returned to Vietnam for a infectious laugh that impersonated the cartoon second tour, where he served with Company A, 1st character. He was older than most other troopers in the Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade. company and was well liked by all. He was never at a Eugene was killed in action on February 13, 1968 near loss for words, and practical jokes and pranks were a Pleiku. For the actions resulting in his death, Eugene part of his everyday repertoire. was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with In February 1968, our unit was west of Ban Me Thout "V" Device as well as the Purple Heart.” on a search and destroy mission sweeping towards the His sister Betty Marano Cambodian border. We had been in contact with the NVA for over a week with frequent firefights and sniper Semper Fi and All The Way, Brother! harassment. On February 12, 1968 we had laagered on Robert John Caston, 21 a flat, open area just inside the tree line. Second PTE, 3RAR, 2/4/68 platoon was sent out to recon and soon found a large “Private Robert John Caston, from regimental size NVA unit that had also stopped for the Adelaide, SA. Caston died of wounds in night. We were immediately surrounded and cut off Bien Hoa Province after being wounded from our company. by a sniper on 4th February 1968. He Tweety’s platoon was sent to reinforce what was left had been in Vietnam for 5 weeks. Buried of my platoon and was also surrounded and cut off from Centennial Park, Adelaide, SA.” the main unit. My platoon’s RTO and his radio were shot up and we tried to make contact with first platoon by shouting their call sign. LIMA, LIMA, OVER HERE, TO YOUR SIERRA; which is GI lingo for south. Amazingly, (tributes continued….) some of the North Vietnamese soldiers mimicked our shouting and in the chaos succeeded in diverting and trapping first platoon in a separate killing zone. As our 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / Jan.-Feb. 2018 – Issue 77 platoons were attempting to break through the NVA Page 3 of 87 Edward Eddy Cervantez, 21 James Lee Coker, 20 CPL, D/4/503, 1/30/68 PFC, A/1/503, 2/12/68 (Virtual Wall states HHC/4/503) “I love you. It has been many years “Cpl Edward (Eddy) Cervantez, US since you left us, we love you now as we Army Saint Francis de Sales High School, did them, Mom and Dad.” Billy Hale Bat Boy with the Chicago White Sox, 1962. Rest in peace.” Unsigned John Henry Curtin, 24 Bronze Star Medal Citation (Posthumous): 1LT, C/4/503, 1/2/68 "For heroism in connection with military operations “Lt. Curtin's final resting place is in against a hostile enemy force: Private First Class Ashe Lawn Memorial Cemetery in the Cervantez distinguished himself by exceptionally Good Shepherd section on Highway 221 valorous actions on 30 January 1968 in the Republic of north of Jefferson, North Carolina.” Vietnam.
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