Alpha Company nd Battalion 7 th Cavalry 2 nd First Calvary Division (Airmobile) April 1969 April 1970 1
Guidon s of the 2 nd Battalion 7 th Cavalry at Fire Support Base Jaime November 1969 2
Area of Operation (AO) JACKIE 3
Foreword Headquarters FSB Jamie Two of the Best Platoon Sergeants First Platoon A Company Left: James T. Whitman Right: Ron Hrudziuszko 4
Lieutenants Left: Gary Rogers, 2 nd Platoon Right Chuck Grace, 3 rd Platoon Pat O Lear XO B Battery 19 th Artillery 5
The following eleven slides depict the period form June 3 - June 13, 1969 when A Company was Op Con to the First Brigade, Colonel Joseph Kingston commanding; serving as his chosen movement to contact company. A Company was in contact every other day over this time frame with soldiers of the NVA 95 Charlie Regiment. 6
Glory Six and One-Six 107 mm rocket captured June 5-6 1969 Left: Richard Nelson Lt First Platoon, an FNG at the time. Later that same day his platoon made contact with the NVA, one wounded none killed. Right: CPT Haratio S. Taveau IV A Company Commander. Second tour with the 2 nd of the 7 th Cavalry, battle field commission, great leader of men. 7
Two Sergeants Left: Rebel radio operator (RTO) Artillery Forward Observer Right: JT Whitman Plt Sgt First Platoon Mounting and Sighting support sticks held by Rebel with Rocket in JT Whitman s hand One or more of these had been fired at the company the night before. 8
Hurry Up and Wait Fred Heath A Company XO (former 1 st Platoon Leader) Pat O Lear Ron Hrudziusku Sergeant 1 st Platoon 9
3 rd Platoon Conference Chuck Grace 3 rd Platoon Leader 10
First Platoon at Dinner Ben Alexander Bill Holhouser 11
Point Men Crash Orange Point Man Bill Holland Medic Guard 12
Rebel Artillery FO RTO A Game of Bridge 4 man foxhole Two M-16 s Wiz the First Sergeant in the field Pat O Lear 13
First Platoon at Breakfast Ben Alexander Sergeant Hazard Bill Holhouser 14
First Platoon JT Whitman Sergeant First Platoon Wayne Para FO First Platoon and the man responsible for clean and functional M 60 s 15
Medic Gilbert Sallaway - Medic First Platoon. Laid over a wounded man to protect him on June 13, 1969. Doc Sallaway took an SKS round in the back near his spinal cord. He was recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross 16
Point Man Charles Ingles, First Squad First Platoon Point man 17
Doc Ralph Godfroy KIA August 29, 1969 Doc Godfroy, Medic First Platoon - Was drafted into the United States Army despite having dual Citizenship which would allow him to avoid the draft by renouncing his U.S. Citizenship and keeping his West German Citizenship. Doc gave up his life rather than give up his U.S. Citizenship. 18
First Platoon Leader May - October 1969 First Lieutenant Richard Nelson at FSB Jaime, in early September 1969 no longer an FNG, and about to become the A Company Commander for a month 19
Tigers are Out There Tiger killed by door gunners of this Huey His body filled the entire floor of this H Model. 20
B Battery 19 th Artillery Firing in Support of a Charlie Alpha from FSB Jamie November 1969 21
B Battery 19 th Artillery Firing in Support of a Charlie Alpha 105 mm shell casing 22
B Battery 19 th Artillery Firing in Support of a Charlie Alpha 23
Birds In Bound! 24
Settling in for pickup 25
On Short Final The Shower at Jamie Warm water about 3:00 PM 26
Moving Out to Board That s Chuck Grace Bengal Glory 36 leading the pack 27
The Brass at FSB Jamie December 1969 Colonel Collins, Brigade Commander and son of Lightning Joe Collins of WW 2 fame. L to R: General Roberts CG 1 st Cavalry Division, LTC Hannas, newly appointed 2 nd Bn 7 th Cav Commander and LTC Moran out going Bn Commander 28
In Memory to those A Company Men KIA April 69 - May 70 Name Date of Action Viet Nam Memorial address Home Town LEROY H. SCOTT 16-Jun-69 22W 60 EBENSBURG, PA ALBERT L DELANEY 02-Jul-69 21W 44 GREENWOOD, MS JOHN L. BRADFORD 01-Aug-69 20W 82 LIVINGSTON, TN RALPH D. GODFROY 29-Aug-69 18W 6 COLUMBUS, GA GARY W. WITHERS 29-Aug-69 18W 9 SPRINGFIELD, IL ISOM J. GOODWINE 27-Dec-69 15W 98 PLANT CITY, FL 29