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Dodge City, Quảng Nam province December 8, 1968: Sacrificed his life to save the lives of several Marines by taking out an enemy bunker Larry Taylor: Army: First Lieutenant: Bình Dương province: June 12, 1969: AH-1 Cobra pilot who rescued four soldiers under enemy fire Brian M. Thacker: Army: First Lieutenant: Kon Tum province: March 31, 1971
Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in Vietnam.It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia.. Historically, this area has been inhabited by the indigenous Ba Na people, which led to the name Kon Tum, meaning "Village by the Lake" in the Ba Na language.
South Vietnam, Kon Tum Province: Crewman on an RB-66B #53-0452 that crashed [133] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] October 22: Weger, John: 1st Lieutenant: USAF: 9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron: South Vietnam, Kon Tum province: Crewman on an RB-66B #53-0452 that crashed [134] Killed in action, body not recovered [112] October 31 ...
Ben Het Camp (also known as Ben Het Special Forces Camp, Ben Het SF/CIDG Camp, Ben Het Ranger Camp, FSB Ben Het and Firebase 12) is a former U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in western Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
Kon Tum Province: Feb 1 – May 6: Operation Greene Queen [1] 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment clear and search operation: Darlac Province: Feb 1 – Nov 17 1970: Operation Hines [1] 4th Infantry Division operations. Subordinate operations were the Wayne series (1st Brigade), the Putnam series (2d Brigade) and the Greene series (3d Brigade ...
Dr. Jonathan Shay, in his book Achilles in Vietnam The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay . In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam , he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of ...
Thao’s main combat force, the 1st Division, contained three strong regiments, the 32nd, the 66th, and the 174th, and was commanded by a veteran officer, Colonel Nguyễn Hữu An. The B3 Front commander also controlled three independent regiments, the 24th Regiment based in Kontum Province, the 95B Regiment in Pleiku Province and the 33rd ...
And it worries people like Marsha Four, who was a combat nurse in Vietnam and knows war trauma intimately. She eventually found purpose and solace running a veterans center in Philadelphia, before she retired last year to work with the Vietnam Veterans of America. Vietnam veterans like Four have their own struggles. But most of them served only ...