19 Oct 1999 REMEMBERED by a friend, Bob rleichtenb@aol.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall Ben Tre City, about 12 kilometers south of My Tho, was captured by the VC at the outbreak of the Tet Offensive. Bravo Company, 2/60 Infantry, was directed to recapture the city. They did so, but only after a bloody fight that killed Americans, VC, and civilians alike and which destroyed much of the town itself. The American dead were 2LT Kenneth E. Golden, Youngstown, OH SP4 Irvin Brown, Mount Pleasant, SC CPL Vincent P. Landon, Detroit, MI CPL Eloy F. Le Blanc, San Francisco, CA CPL Roy L. Phillips, Chicago, IL SP4 Jack P. Wilson, Burbank, CA PFC Charles J. Bauer, Long Island City, NY PFC Fred W. Jansonius, Jamestown, ND PFC Ralph A. Keating, Caledonia, MI PFC Robert A. Reyes, Richmond, CA PFC Selmer E. Salveson, St Paul, MN PFC Paul A. Stender, Skokie, IL

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