Our Honored Dead: Vietnam
Echo Company
10/1/67
Pfc Robert Montoya
Age 20
Ruidoso, New Mexico
Quang Ngai Province
Grenade
Thrown into Recon Platoon's Night Laager
10/2/67
Pfc Henry Gomez
Age 21
Riverside, California
Quang Ngai Province
Booby Trap
10/8/67
Pfc John Showers Jr.
Age 20
Benezett, Pennsylvania
Quang Ngai Province
Grenade
Thrown into Recon Platoon's Night Laager
10/2/68
Pfc Curtis Miller
Age 20
Monroe, Virginia
Kontum Province
Misadventure
2/28/69
1Lt Ronald L Kielpikowski
Age 23
Kontum Province
Homicide
9/27/69
Pfc Willard De Long
Age 19
Enon, Ohio
Pleiku Province
Accidental Homicide
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Note: The Recon Platoon was part of Headquarters Co before Aug. 1st, 1967, after that, they were with Echo Co.
Richard Arnold and others are painstakingly researching the identities of our friends in the 3rd Brigade for both the 25th and 4th Divisions, including the 1st of the 14th, who died in the line of duty. They have graciously allowed us to post a memorial to the men of 1/14th on our site. They continue to need your help in identifying the units of those they find from the 3rd Brigade in their research. If you can identify the unit of anyone in their list, you will be able to contact Dick Arnold directly from their website. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated by all.
Point of Contact for this project is:
Dick Arnold
3611 East Delmar Rd.
Indianapolis, IN. 46220
317-251-2369
arnold_richard_j@lilly.com
m60dick@iquest.net