Picture submitted by Mac Reppert:
On the far left, just barely in the picture, is Dennis Krause, my RTO; I (Mac Reppert) am in the foreground second from the left and to the right of Denny; I don’t know who the guy in the jungle hat is, but I don’t think he was a chu hoi – I think he might have been someone from the BN S-3 shop; and the guy on the far right was our CO Jim Hansard (later KIA). The picture was taken by acting PAO PFC Herb Burdett just after a successful ambush my platoon triggered on a trail at the edge of the Michelin Rubber on an NVA convoy of a dozen ox carts loaded with supplies, just North of the village of Dau Tieng in the first or second week of August 1968. Records recovered from the body of the NVA Commanding Officer indicated an escort force of 150, although there can be no certain knowledge of this.
Charlie Company's men certainly did their part in the defense of this mountain top camp.
Here are a few pictures Ruben Sanchez wanted to share with you. He says: I remember at one of the reunions I saw pictures of C/2/22 (Mechanized) that joined up with C/3/22 in Vietnam. That's the unit I came from as well as others of the basic training cadre. The pictures are from 1964 & 1965. I thought you might get a kick out of seeing the pictures. You will see some of our personnel carriers at our barracks, some crossing the Columbia River in Yakima and a couple of pictures in C/3/22.
David Olsen, A Troop 3/4 Cav, has created individual memorials for most of our KIA's. This is an amazing enhancement to our Heroes pages. Be sure to check out his hard work. You'll be amazed. Go to all the Heroes pages and click on any picture. An individual memorial will come up that David has put together.
This is a link to David Olsen's units website: http://home.comcast.net/~ATrp3-4Cav/
David
says: "My Personal Link and photos can be accessed through the above site by clicking on TWS Members and then my name David Olsen
under 1968. I think all of your men should record their service record there."
WE DID IT!
We have been looking for pictures of those killed in Vietnam from our company for a lot of years and getting one of Albertis
Williamson, KIA 2-10-68, completed our mission of getting all 95 of them. Rick DeNomme, after a lot of diligent work and follow-up,
corresponded with Alburtis's sister Loretta Nelson who was able to locate her one picture of her brother and send it to Rick.
From
Rick: I have made crosses of all 95 of our HEROES and have their picture attached to each. I put them up in my yard every Memorial
Day. After getting the crosses made and the pictures attached to them it started brothering me that Albertis Williamson did not have
a picture. I decided to see what I could do about it and started the research process, after all this time I would like to report
that I have succeeded in getting a picture of Bert (as his family called him).
Bill, After working on this project I sure do appreciate
what you and others have done to locate these HEROES of ours.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED as far as the pictures go.
Special request from Bill Schwindt:
"I just got an email about 1st Sgt Arthur Werner. I thought there was a picture of him on our website, but no there is none.
Since he wore a CIB badge with three wars represented on it, maybe we should have a picture of him on our website."
