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Company C, 75th Infantry (Ranger) 1 February 1969: 25 October 1971: Company E (LRP), 20th Infantry: I Field Force (Vietnam) Company D (Ranger), 151st Infantry Company D, 75th Infantry (Ranger) 1 February 1969 20 November 1969: 20 November 1969 10 April 1970: Company F (LRP), 51st Infantry: II Field Force (Vietnam) Company E, 75th Infantry ...
David Henry Ohle [1] [2] (born October 16, 1944) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as Deputy Chief of Staff G-1 Personnel of The United States Army from 1998 to 2000. [ 3 ]
Company H, 75th Infantry, also lost the last two Rangers of the Vietnam War: Sgt. Elvis Weldon Osborne, Jr., and Cpl. Jeffery Alan Maurer, both killed in action June 9, 1972. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] In all, approximately 1,000 men served in this unit of whom 45 were killed in Vietnam and Cambodia and approximately 400 were wounded or injured on patrol, a ...
Team 52, H Company, 75th Ranger Regiment: Cambodian Campaign: Cambodia, Mondulkiri Province: Team leader killed in an ambush while on a reconnaissance mission [89] Presumptive finding of death [3] June 17: Laker, Carl J: Specialist 4: US Army: Team 52, H Company, 75th Ranger Regiment: Cambodian Campaign: Cambodia, Mondulkiri Province
[34] [35] [10] [36] On 9 June 1972, H Company (Ranger) lost SGT Elvis Weldon Osborne Jr. and CPL Jeffrey Alan Maurer to enemy action. Three other US soldiers were killed by non-hostile action that day, but SGT Osborne and CPL Maurer were the last US Army infantrymen killed on the ground, as well as the last Rangers killed in the Vietnam War. [37]
The 75th Ranger Regiment has been awarded numerous honors and decorations from its campaigns, beginning in World War II. In World War II, they participated in 16 major campaigns, spearheading the campaigns in Morocco, Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Anzio and Leyte.
The 2nd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment traces its lineage to two units; Company H, 475th Infantry Regiment (previously known as the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), or "Merrill's Marauders") and Company A, 2nd Ranger Battalion. The units originally had separate lineages, but were then consolidated in 1986.
The other World War II unit that 3rd Ranger Battalion draws lineage from is the 5307 Provisional Unit, also called Merrill's Marauders.This unit was consolidated 10 August 1944 with Company F, 475th Infantry Regiment (Long Range Penetration, Special) (constituted 25 May 1944 in the Army of the United States), and consolidated unit designated as Company F, 475th Infantry Regiment.