1st Battalion/11th Infantry

HH Company

PFC Rene A. Buller 03/27/69 (21)

A Company

SGT Steven C. Martinez 08/20/68 (21)

SP4 James E. Skipper 02/03/69 (21)

SP4 Joseph J. Dobynes 03/27/69 (24)

SGT Stanley T. Bradley 03/28/69 (23)

SP4 William E. Brown 02/12/69 (22)

 

B Company

SGT William J. Gagnier 09/11/68 (21)

SP4 Vinicio E. Santucci 09/11/68 (24)

SP4 Harry D. Van Alst, Jr. 09/11/68 (21)

SP4 Thomas D. Smith 09/11/68 (21)

SP4 Robert L. Scott 09/11/68 (20)

PFC Ronald A. Gorschboth 09/11/68 (24)

SGT Ronald M. Frazer 09/14/68 (22)

PFC Gary A. Waldorf 09/11/68 (20)

PFC John E. Jacobs 10/01/68 (21)

PFC Mark L. Fusile 12/03/68 (21)

1LT Harley M. Howard 12/03/68 (26)

SP4 William J. Eder 12/10/68 (20)

SP4 Antonio R. Morales 03/26/69 (24)

SP4 Bobby J. Walters 03/27/69 (22)

SGT Louis K. Dixon 03/27/69 (27)

PFC Oscar C. Johnson, Jr. 03/27/69 (21)

SP4 Leslie W. Worl 03/27/69 (22)

1LT William D. Cody 03/27/69 (24)

CPT Marvin J. Roberts 03/28/69 (26)

C Company

SSG John B. Gibson, Jr. 03/01/69 (28)

SP4 Allison W. Locklair 03/27/69 (21)

SP4 Robert L. Anglin 03/27/69 (21)

PFC Everett T. Culp 03/27/69 (21)

SP4 David E. Flannery 03/27/69 (25)

SP4 Dimitrios Arniotis 03/27/69 (21)

PFC Leonard C. Ivy, Jr. 03/27/69 (20)

SP4 Walter Palmer

 

D Company

CPL Anthony Miller 08/31/68 (26)

SGT Keith Wilson 08/31/68 (26)

PFC Francis Charles 09/21/68 (19)

PFC David L. Clark 09/21/68 (19)

SGT Michael I. Hanneman 09/21/68 (24)

SP4 Robert A. Lhota 09/21/68 (25)

SP4 David L. White 09/21/68 (21)

SP4 George H. Stamps 12/02/68 (21)

PFC James R. Knight 12/02/68 (20)

SGT Thomas W. Blakeslee 12/02/68 (21)

PFC Jonathan Brown 12/02/68 (19)

SSG Charles F. Seaton 12/02/68 (31)

SP4 Francis P. Truance 12/02/68 (21)

PFC Thomas D. Walker 12/26/68 (23)

SGT Ward C. Evans 02/08/69 (29)

SP4 William F. Goodwin 03/07/69 (21)

SP4 william J. McNamara 03/07/69 (20)

SP4 Joseph C. Russo 03/07/69 (21)

1LT Nelson L. Smith 03/07/69 (25)

SP4 John A. Swords 03/19/69 (22)

SP4 Billy W. Duke 03/28/69 (21)

SGT Julian V. Velasquez 04/02/69 (28)

 

E Company

SP4 Stanley W. Armentrout 11/16/68 (20)

PFC Howard H. Mayer 12/03/68 (21)

Frederick G Parker Jr 12/24/68

SP4 Verbin E. Davidson 04/15/69 (21)

 

1st Battalion/61st Infantry

HH Company

1LT Peter B. Rich 09/15/68 (23)

PFC Thomas F. Ray 10/25/68 (20) (RTO, Reconnaissance Platoon)

2LT David R. Merrell 10/25/68 (24) (Reconnaissance Platoon Leader)

SGT James L. Lang 11/17/68 (32)

SP5 Walter D. Smith 03/30/69 (26) (Flame Platoon, Track Commander)

SGT Rex F. Nelson, Jr. 05/10/69 (24) (Flame Platoon, Track Commander)

PFC Billy G. Waid 05/10/69 (20) (Flame Platoon)

PFC James R.Thomas 05/10/69 (23) (Flame Platoon)

SP4 Joseph J. Polasek, Jr. 03/30/69 (22) (Flame Platoon, Track Driver

 

A Company

SP4 William H. Lucas 09/04/68 (21)

SP4 Barry S. Wells 09/04/68 (21)

PFC Emil H. Smevold 09/04/68 (21)

SGT James A. Wright 10/25/68 (21)

SP4 James Soriano 10/25/68 (20)

SGT James R. Gage 12/04/68 (21)

SGT Ronnie J. Fullerton 01/12/69 (22)

CPT Robert W. Clirehugh, Jr. 04/22/69 (25)

PFC John S. Davenport 04/28/69 (25)

SP4 John C. Davis 04/28/69 (22)

 

B Company

PFC Michael J. Stanley 09/02/68 (20)

PVT Tom G. Casey 10/25/68 (21)

SGT Gary L. Pace 03/31/69 (24)

 

C Company

PFC William W. Kent 08/12/68 (21)

SGT Howard D. Burke 09/09/68 (29)

PVT David R. Lilly 09/09/68 (27)

PFC Domingo M. Terronez 09/09/68 (23)

SGT Gilbert Carvalho 09/15/68 (32)

PFC Virgil H. Wilson, Jr. 10/11/68 (20)

SGT Paul Narcisse 10/11/68 (23)

SGT Alvin R. Hoover, III 10/11/68 (22)

SSG Charles Moss 06/19/69 (2nd Platoon)

 

D Company

PFC Lonnie Parker 10/24/68 (21)

SP4 Robert W. Patterson 03/18/69 (23)

 

E Company (?) (only A, B, C, D Companies in the 1/61st)

PFC Larry E. Martin 10/24/68 (21)

 

1st Battalion/77th Armor

HH Company

PFC Dennis R. Tripp 10/25/68 (22)

SP4 Hughie Franklin Snider (Scout Platoon) 04/28/70 (Accidental drowning)

SP4 Rocky P. O'Ham (Scout Platoon) 05/08/70

SP4 Carlos Chavez (Scout Platoon) 06/25/70

MAJ Robert Degen 01/08/71 (Intentional homicide)

 

A Company

SP5 William L. Wilburn 01/15/69 (22)

SP5 David M. Lacey 04/25/69 (22)

SP4 Samuel A. Bessent 04/25/69 (20)

PFC Gary McCollough 05/25/69 (21)

1LT Bruce W. Heskett 06/29/70

B Company

SFC Lester E. Bunner 05/16/70 (Died of injuries after evacuation)

 

C Company

SGT Gordon D. Gardner 02/03/69 (20)

SP4 (acting SGT) Terry Lee Dallape 07/30/69

SP4 Harold O. Stump (Medic) 07/30/69

 

D Company

PFC Chester R. McClelland 08/23/68 (24)

SFC James C. Brannan 03/31/69 (41)

 

A Company, 7th Engineers

SP5 Dietz Wolf-Dieter 09/04/68 (22)

SGT Billy M. Long 10/25/68 (20)

SP4 Carl F. Kashiemer 12/20/68 (20)

 

5th Battalion, 4th Artillery

B Company

2LT David P. Sullivan (Forward Observer) 09/04/68 (24)

 

A Troop, 4th Squadron, 12th Cavalry

SSG Guy B. Creep, Jr. 12/06/68 (28)

SP4 Harold J. Van Winkle, Jr. 02/16/69 (21)

SP5 William D. Ryan 03/31/69 (22)

SGT John Raymond Jackson 05/22/69 (21)

 

Source: List from a plaque at Fort Carson, CO for names and units (via Dennis Knight) and list of Casualties of the Vietnam war from National Archives for date and age (via Dennis Knight).
Information about Reconnaissance Platoon, HHC, 1/61st from Tommy Dorris.
Information concerning Flame Platoon, HHC, 1/61st from Ted Nordin.
Information concerning Frederick Parker, from SGT Edward C Giles Jr.
Information concerning 1/77 Armor from Floyd Robertson (1/77 Armor), and Keith Short (National Historian)
Thanks to all.

 

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