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Need to hear from Marines who served with 1st Heavy
Artillery Rocket Btry. (HARB) at MCB, 29 Palms, Calif., and
later on Okinawa, 1958-63. Want to organize a reunion. Contact:
Michael L.R. Meade, 8723 Westbrook Dr., Boise, ID 83704;
208-377-3806; marinemike1@juno.com
Looking for John A. (Augie)
Swartel from the Finger Lakes area of New York. We were dog
handlers attached to 5th CDS (SAC) at Travis AFB. I got orders
to Bien Hoa AB but ended up at Tuy Hoa, Dec. 1966. Contact:
Michael L. Warner, 15086 S. Telegraph Rd., Monroe, MI 48161;
743-243-3634; dogmanandduke@ charter.net
Searching for photos
taken at Pleiku (Camp Enari) or An Khe (Camp Radcliff). Also
looking for recordings done in Vietnam. Have much to exchange.
Contact: Jim Claeys, 1837 Sedro St., Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221;
ankhe70@yahoo.com
Seeking sentry dog handlers who served at
Tuy Hoa AB. Specifically looking for the man who handled
Shep 7F79 starting on or about Feb. 20, 1967. Contact: Phil
Savage, 2992 M66, Athens, MI 49011; 269-729-9703; philsavage@sbcglobal.net
Seeking
anyone who served with Co. A, 577th Engr. Bn. at Don Duong,
or with 497th Engr. Bn., or with 124th Med. Evac. (Search
and Rescue), Cam Ranh Bay, 1971-72. Contact: Paul Skip Wooten,
11624 Burke St., #8, Omaha, NE 68154; 402-575-5710.
Searching
for John Koeppen. I am an Aussie vet who served with the
2nd Bn., Royal Australian Regiment, 1970-71. John was an
American friend, a welder in civilian life who once owned
a bar called The Up and Under in Milwaukee. Contact: Bob
Wallace, bobwallace@tadaust.org.au
Trying to locate Norman
Clarence Wingate, USAF Air Police 1963-67. We were stationed
together at Lackland AFB, Ellsworth AFB, and separated after
going to RVN. Norman was born July 1945 and was from Baltimore.
He married a woman named Lyda or Linda before deployment.
Contact: Raymond A. Jones, 739 Arrowood Rd., Rutherfordton,
NC 28139.
Looking for Quincy Collins, formerly a POW in RVN
for 7 years. Contact: William C. Beals, Sr., 1111 Highway
73, Moose Lake, MN 55767.
Want to locate Mike Donovan, Neil
Wolfe, Ben, and Buck, all USAF 46250 weapons mechanics and
all together when a grenade was thrown into our midst, Nov.
16 or 17, 1968. Mike was hit in the chest; I was hit in the
head and shoulder. Contact: Jerry Kmieciak, 11291 Heidi Lee
Ln., Ft. Myers, FL 33908; 239-466-7562; sbt1049@aol.com
Trying
to recover photos lost at The Wall on Nov. 11, 2007, during
Veterans Day wreath ceremony—four XD picture
cards in holder by the East Panel. Many valuable photos of
my brother (also a Vietnam vet) and me. Offering $100 (or
more) reward to you or donated to VVMF. Contact: Frank “Paco” Arce,
4016 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx, NY 10465; 646-752-0447; frankpaco69@aol.com
Seeking
Samuel M. Commings, drafted into the Army in Leavenworth,
Kansas, and deployed to Vietnam. Would now be 62-65 years
old. Contact: Everlene Rouse (aka Everlene Ross), everlene.rouse@sbcglobal.net
Looking
for former Ft. Ord buddies for possible reunion. Liggett
and any others from 54th/571st/7th Presidio of Monterey Military
Police. Contact: Bradley T. Higgins, P.O. Box 224, Round
Top, NY 12473 or Rich Winstanley, r.winstanley.506@yahoo.com
Searching
for shipmates from the U.S.S. Hull (DD-945), 1969-71. Contact:
Henry C. Hayes, 4310 W. 2nd Ave., Pine Bluff, AR 71602; 870-536-6658.
Seeking
anyone who served at Danang AB at “Gunfighter
Village.” Need verification of direct-hit rocket attack
on barracks on or about July 7, 1971. Many killed and wounded.
Contact: Donald L. Goodwin, 811 Comfort Ln., Jennings, LA
70546; 337-824-4454.
Need help with VA claim. Want to hear
from shipmates aboard the U.S.S. Cacapon (AO-52), 1971-73,
including Michael McCorkill (Wizard, Mo.), Patrick McMullen
(Calif.), Ronald Bunker (Michigan). Trying to verify working
conditions in fire room. Contact: Kenneth L. Bryson, 2116
N. 3rd St., St. Joseph, MO 64505; 816-279-3361.
Looking for
members of USN boot camp Co. 951 (Great Lakes) who graduated
Oct. 1969. Also seeking Wally Wilkinson (former USCG) who
was in quartermaster school in Newport, R.I., in Dec. 1969.
Contact: Dana Evans, 6336 Y Ave., Aurelia, IA 51005; 712-282-4360;
evans@ruralwaves.us
Searching for anyone who knew Norman Roggow.
He served on the U.S.S. Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) in 1967. His
plane crashed on Oct. 8, 1967, in RVN. He was my brother;
we just had his funeral 40 years after the crash. Contact:
Connie Fraser, 17475 Yacht Ave., Hutchinson, MN 55350; 320-587-5779.
Seeking
old friend Chuck Throne, originally from Chicago. We served
together at Wright-Patterson AFB in 17th Combat Defense Sqdrn.
(K-9 unit), and at Tuy Hoa in 31st Security Police Sqrdn.
(K-9 unit). Contact: Joe Richardson, 5856 Broadway St., Indianapolis,
IN 46220; 317-523-0019.
Want to find John Pelkey and Jim Bailey,
both medics from 1st Bn., 12th Inf., 4th Inf. Div., Camp
Enari, Pleiku, Feb. 1969-70. Contact: Doug Moylen, dmoylen@gmail.com
Does anybody
remember when an aircraft maintenance accident on an F-4
Vigilante cost the lives of two fellow sailors at Naval Air
Base, Albany, Ga., in June 1968? Contact: William T. Patterson,
39 E. Marion St., Youngstown, OH 44507; 330-330-5342.
Looking
for 69th Sig. Bn. personnel from Camp Gaylor, Tan Son Nhut
AB, including Larry Caldwell (Ferguson, Mo.) and Charles
L. Curley (Eatontown, N.J.). Contact: Leonard Gamradt, 504
3rd St., S.E., Little Falls, MN 56345; 320-632-8845.
Seeking
anyone who served with A Btry., 6th Bn., 14th Arty. on “Artillery
Hill,” Pleiku, Oct. 1967-68. Contact:
Donald Wayne Ashwell, 3006 Marysville Rd., Altavista, VA
24517; ashwellsr@aol.com
Seeking Fred Rodman. We served together
in Hawaii, 1972-73. We had the two best bikes in Hawaii.
We were both at CINCPAC FLT but in different offices. Contact:
Richard (Dick) Witte, 1224 Kirsten St., La Marque, TX 77568;
409-938-7291; 409-771-1379.
Does anybody recall an episode
at Ft. Polk when Clarence W. Bynum was confined to the base
stockade and attempted suicide by drinking Pine-Sol? Incident
verification is needed. Contact: Clarence W. Bynum, 501 S.
Persimmon St., Pine Bluff, AR 71602; 870-489-0205.
Trying
to recover an AWOL bag lost somewhere on the flight home
from Tan Son Nhut through Cam Ranh Bay and on to Ft. Lewis.
The bag contained slides, a trophy, and D Troop Zippo lighter.
Contact: Ken Moore, 164 Baneberry Way, Hilton, NY 14468;
585-392-0269.
I’m looking for the Army 1st
LT in the accompanying photo, part of an MP Advisory Team,
who was assigned on Phu Quoc Island. In January 1971, he
escorted me and another nurse while we participated in
a three-day MEDCAP providing care and assessment for VC
and NVA POWs at different enclosures. With us were two
Vietnamese doctors, several of our doctors assigned to
the 3rd Surgical Hospital in Binh Thuy, our dentist, and
his tech. Contact: Connie Christensen, 1141 SW 8th Terr.,
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33315; ConCC@aol.com
Need help with PTSD claim. Seeking Robert Garner
or anyone else who remembers me from A Co., 84th Engineers
(1970) or HHT 1/10 Cav. (1971). Contact: Wayne Weaver, 514
Mt. Misery Rd., New Oxford, PA 17350.
Seeking former Navy
corpsman Fitsimons (or possibly Fitzsimons or Fitzsimmons)
who was wounded on or about March 8, 1968, while attached
to Kilo 3/9 on Operation Dewey Canyon in the A Shau Valley.
My fireteam carried him to the Medevac chopper. Contact:
Adam W. Mackow, 25 Abrams Rd., Milford, NJ 08848; 908-995-9191.
Looking
for copy of a boot camp book for Plt. 139, USMC Recruit Depot
San Diego, June 1963. Contact: Jerry Thurman, 3438 College
Ave., Davenport, IA 52807; 563-386-4662.
Looking for shipmates
from U.S.S. Constellation (CVA-64), P-1 or P-2 Div. (B Div.),
WESPAC, 1966-69. Contact: Len Hampton, 1390 Anasazi Ct.,
Las Cruces, NM 88007; mixedcompany2@ hotmail.com
Seeking anyone
who served with the 516th PSC or 490th GS Co. located in
or near the 1st Logistical Compound, Danang, June 1969-70.
Contact: Charlie Ott, 1980 Surgi Dr., Mandeville, LA 70448;
985-626-6031; cdott70@bellsouth.net
Searching for anyone who
served with me in the 498th Medical Co. (Air Ambulance) Dustoff,
Jan. 1968-Sept. 1969, especially Blackwell or David Franz.
Franz’s last-known duty station
was in Germany with 503rd CAB, late 1970s. Contact: Clifford
Baldwin, 114 Zinnia Dr., Killeen, TX 76542; 254-526-4022.
Army
engineers who served in Vietnam, your brothers are looking
for you, just to reminisce or organize a reunion. Contact:
Brian Bobek, 21180 Armada Ridge Rd., Armada, MI 48005; bbhog@sbcglobal.net
or www.engineersvietnam.com/engineers/ pacemakers.htm
Searching
for Robert Cetrone from N.Y. We served together in D Co.,
24th Engr., 4th Armored Div. in Feurth, Germany. We requested
Vietnam duty, got orders, left together, and lost touch.
Contact: Glenn Straub, 1165 W. Lloyd St., Shenandoah, PA
17976; 570-462-9540.
John Bannister is seeking old friends
from 228th Supply Service, Tay Ninh, Jan. 1968-69. Contact:
John Bannister, P.O. Box 2586, Binghamton, NY 13902; 607-242-1230.
Seeking
Roberts, former USMC sergeant with 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine
Div., Quang Tri, 1968. He was wounded and pinned down while
crossing a rice paddy south of Cua Viet. I was the rescue
man that day. I last saw Roberts at Camp Lejeune. He later
became a police officer in Jacksonville, N.C.
Would like
to reconnect. Contact: Joseph M. Guevara, 9 Wrights Way,
Fall River, MA 02720; 508-578-6351; jguevara@newbedford.k12.ma.us
Looking
for Baker, former sergeant with 3rd Plt., B Co., 1/506, 101st
Airborne Div., 3rd Brigade, based at Camp Evans, 1970. We
were on operations in the A Shau Valley when we lost Cecile
Dabson in a tunnel situation. I served under the last name
Meara, but reverted to my birth name after I got home. Contact:
Art McLellan, 134 Summer St., #39, Malden, MA 02148; 781-324-9787.
Looking
for a picture of my track (#31) from the days with Co. C,
2/8, 4th Inf. Div. It was hit by a B-40 rocket. Contact:
Bob Byrne, 252-335-5693; ugvnv_ec_nc@hotmail.com
Seeking William
Schmidbauer. Contact: Alan L. Smith, 6048 S.W. 103rd Loop,
Ocala, FL 34476.
Seeking anyone who knew Gregory W. Sheeler,
KIA May 28, 1970, while serving with Tr. C, 3/5th Cav., 9th
Inf. Div. in the Dong Ha area. Looking for photos or memories.
I am his cousin and also a veteran. Contact: Edward P. Duffey
III, 1405 Northview Ave., Rose City, MI 48654; mich179th_ed@myway.com
Want
to return a lost Army Commendation Medal belonging to James
A. Helm, B Trp., 1/11th ACR. Contact: Claude Peterson, 2770
Quail Dr., Stanton, IA 51573; cepete@myfmtc.com
Searching
for Ed Cook (possibly Cooke) who was at Tan Son Nhut AB,
1969-70. Ed worked in base ops and I was with flight records.
His last-known address was in the State of N.Y. Contact:
Paul L. Daniel, P.O. Box 323, Enosburg Falls, VT 05450; 802-370-5383.
Looking
for members of 6990th Security Sqdrn. We went to Berlitz
Language School in Washington, D.C., to learn Vietnamese
in 1966. Shipped out through Goodfellow AFB and Fairchild
AFB and flew in RC-135s from Kadena AFB in Okinawa under
Col. Doyle Larson and served from Dec. 1967-Jan. 1969. Contact:
Rick Martinez, mrrickgp@yahoo.com
Seeking Robert Nash, former
1st Lt. who served as S-2 officer with 5/60th Inf., 9th Inf.
Div., 1969-70. Contact: Phil Nichols, 5195 Leslie Rd., Decker,
MI 48426; 989-325-1208; kln442@yahoo.com
Former sailor seeks
other crewmembers aboard U.S.S. Midway (CVA-41) from WESPAC
cruise 1960-64 who might have become ill from Agent Orange
or asbestos in overhead pipes in sleeping quarters. Contact:
William Danny Neuman, 2215 S. Chase #4, Port Angeles, WA
98362; 360-452-6733.
Looking for anybody from 8th Engineers
who remembers the day I was electrocuted at LZ Evans, late
Feb. or early Mar. 1968. I was a surveyor with HHC S-3 and
was hooking up a box to a CH-47. Two guys revived me, but
I was stunned and wandered away in a daze. Want to thank
those men, along with crew of the CH-47, and confirm incident
details. Contact: Leo Miller, millerle@yahoo.com
Seeking anyone
who served with me in 2nd and 27th Inf. (Wolfhounds) at Cu
Chi, Aug.-Nov. 1969. I was wounded in my right heel in morning
chow line. Contact: Floyd R. Griffin, 1313 Hillcrest Dr.,
Pauls Valley, OK 73075.
Retired nurse now working for Military
Order of the Purple Heart seeks former Marine David Chester
Walton from 1965-66. He was a sergeant at the time and a
tank commander in Vietnam. His hometown was Bangor, Maine,
he was a twin, and would now be approximately 62 years old.
Contact: Carol Ann Long, 304 E. Maple Rd., Linthicum, MD
21090; 443-749-0807.
Seeking Patrick Mann. He was in the USAF
based in Korat, Thailand, approximately 40 years ago. Contact:
somtrakool@yahoo.com
Australian Vietnam vet interested in
corresponding with American veterans. I served in the infantry,
got wounded on July 19, 1969, and spent two years in the
hospital. Contact: Don Tate, warvet_69@ yahoo.com
Seeking
Masaru Senda who served in Vietnam, 1966-67. Contact: Michael
J. Win, 5900 Sepulveda Blvd. #500, Van Nuys, CA 91411; 818-981-9960;
818-781-8512 (fax); Mlwin@rgwLawFirm.com
VA claims assistance
needed for Karl L. Peterson who served with 592nd Trans.
Co., 1966-1968. Seeking Toby Williams and Mike Thomas, and
information from Ban Me Thout in that time frame. Contact:
Scott Ferguson, scott.ferguson2@va.gov
Seeking wartime photos
of Salvatore “Sonny” DiCicco,
Vietnam veteran from Philadelphia. Contact: Nicole DiCicco,
2237 S. Bouvier St., Philadelphia, PA 19145; 215-590-9093;
decicco@email.chop.edu
Searching for information or memories
of John Skane, who I believe was a POW and may have died
in captivity. Contact: Christina Zimmer, Cchristinaez@aol.com
Want
information about or memories of Eugene D. Forbes, former
private, service number US 52401618. He served with a Headquarters
Company, 1956-58. Contact: gailthemommy@peoplepc.com
Looking
for anybody who served with the 15th Engr. Co., 299th CBT
Engrs. at Dak To, LZ Pony, and LZ North English. Seeking
Stocks, Holbaugh, Matlock, Card, Wimpy Williamson, Fiest,
Stanley Eagle, Hildibrand, Lusty, George Harvey, Gary Griggs,
Grady Gibbs, and Smith. Contact: Jay Gearhart, 231-922-3471;
jaybird718@charter.net
Looking for anybody who served with
Echo Co., 2/5 Cav. between 1966-72. We are attempting to
create a roster for our first reunion. Contact: Mick DeHart,
mdehart2@woh.rr.com or Al Hembd at grnpappy@comcast.net
Searching
for Brian Tobey. He graduated from Leigh High School in San
Jose, Calif., in 1964, and joined the Air Force after he
graduated. Contact: Irene Hutchison, P.O. Box 204, Andrews,
IN 46702.
Looking for anybody who served with
Co. A, 2/5 Cav., particularly Pratt, Larry Weaver, Jim “Click” Kinney,
Vic Alesi, and Ollie Mason Jones. Contact: Mike Puraty, 714-719-3871;
chief_mpura@ yahoo.com
Want to locate friends,
former co-workers, and eyewitnesses to the death of Frederick
Phillip “Fred” Smith
(former Army captain), killed Feb. 13, 1971, in Vietnam.
I am having his name added to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Memorial at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., the Army Chemical
Corps Memorial at Fort Leonard Wood, and plan to nominate
him for the Army Chemical Corps Hall of Fame. I am trying
to upgrade his valor award to the Medal of Honor or the Distinguished
Service Cross. Contact: Mike R. Vining, 635 Blackhawk Rd.,
South Fork, CO 81154; 719-873-1065; mvining@amigo.net
Seeking
former POW (Korea) Lee Holden Hinkle, born in Cuyahoga, Ohio,
in 1924. He was married to Frances Louise Crump in 1957.
I last heard from him when he lived in Chaparral, New Mexico,
around 1990. He was a VFW member. Contact: Cynthia Fowler,
479-344-6077; cindylovesjohnwf@yahoo.com
Need help building
roster of veterans who served in defoliated areas, had Agent
Orange exposure, and now have Parkinson’s
disease. The roster currently carries over 130 names. Contact:
Clement G. Moser, 217 N. Market St., Van Wert, OH 45891;
419-238-6580 (day); 419-238-6474 (night); 419-238-981 (fax);
cnjmoser@roadrunner.com
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