I was wounded on Feb. 22, 1968. We had come to a clearing divided by a stream. The APC stopped, we dismounted and checked for land mines. It appeared clear and after boarding the APC we drove 5 feet and ran over a land mine. The investigation afterwards indicated it...
Private Ackerman was a member of the 29th Infantry Regiment. He was taken prisoner at Hadong, South Korea on July 27th. With several hundred other Prisoners of War, he was marched north to Sunchon where he was murdered on October 20th, 1950. His remains were returned...
He had been wounded July 28 in France and returned to duty. Private Salyer, before his induction in August 1943, had been employed at the Spicer Mrg. Corp. An infantry man, he trained at Camp Blanding, Fla., and went overseas last May. Enlisted 4 Sep 1943 – Fort...
Arriving in Saigon in the earliest days of 1966, Sergeant George Mike Mabe spent nearly the entire year serving in Vietnam. As part of a combat unit with the 101st Airborne Division, much of his time was spent in the bush, taking part in search-and-destroy missions...
I grew up in central Florida and enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 17 in March 1974 on the delayed entry program. At the entrance processing center in Jacksonville, Fla., I was asked what my MOS preference was. “Journalism,” I responded. The specialist typed a...
(KUTV) — The killing of Major Brent Taylor, 39, of North Ogden, is particularly bitter because he thought he was among friends in Afghanistan when he was killed on Saturday [11/3/18], said Major General Jeff Burton of the Utah National Guard. “He was with the folks...
