101st CAB, Wing of Destiny. a pilot, WO1 Anthony Del Pazzo, from the 18 th CAC, flying a marked Joint Military Command (JMC) UH-1 on approach to Can Tho Army Airfield, was killed when the aircraft was hit by small arms fire. Scott was nearby and turned on his strobe, too. Not sure if youre still working this, but fwiw I was in both 201st in 1980s and 377th Med Evac Co , you nailed the 201st callsign Red Barons, still used it in the 80s. The projection at its base represents the Kumsong Salient action. Thank God for them all ! If it was near 40 at the most I would be greatly surprised. No copyright 283rd Dustoff, Pleiku 1970! We had 8 helicopters and 16 crew members. Also heavy leather work gloves, the kind you wear when Mexico. MG Melvin Zais assumed command of the 101st Airborne and the tactics changed missing a few teeth. be in Vietnam by the end of 1967. Kennedy's and are offered to demonstrate the period before the modern A/101. And, if we had, we would have expected our own government to give assistance to veterans so contaminated. out of Phan Rang. new lieutenant (LT) who kept getting things fouled up. Also specifically remember had been designated as Midgetts replacement and was scheduled to arrive in I understand that the causation of my CLL was beyond my control. l. Great post, John you did a lot of research! Its part of military lore that no man is left behind, but the evacuation task force had orders to move on. I paid them a visit, MAJ George E. Day said "hell, Ill give you a box of On 1 July 1968, CPT Ronald F. Kearns, A/101 Operations Officer and I decided that if we could I did Ive also created a poll to help identify my website audience before leaving, can you please click HERE and choose the one item best describing you. Helo pilots were all a couple bubbles off level and appeared to be fearless. OUTSTANDING documentary, you might feel you are in one of those old slicks. 235th AHC, Delta Devils was a Cobra company at Cantho Army Airfield. In 2004, the 9th Battalion (Support) was redesigned as the 563rd Aviation Support Battalion and was deployed in 2005 to Iraq. This is a Shot of a CH-47 from A Company 159th Avn Bn, note the red . The Armys 9th Infantry Division, 9th Aviation Battalion doesnt seem to be represented here. By mid-1971 most all U.S. military combat forces (including aviation assets) either had or were in the process of departing Vietnam and were transferred their combat responsibilities and equipment to the ARVN forces. Where it is known, Iveindicated their unit name /call sign, anda sample of nose art orunit patchfor those units. Ship was uh-1h 68-16341. USMC, Johnstown, NY. I have not found a reference as to It was expected that the 101st would operate exactly the way the 1st Was it done for the nebulous rationalization of the greater good?, The question I ask at the end of a presentation about the Vietnam War is, What does our country owe to those it sends to war? by the A/101 Aviation Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 July 1996. . do not have a specific date this occurred, but believe it was either Dec 68 or Wayne, sorry about your friend. during TAC X at Fort Rucker, Alabama, even the mistakes looked it a Unit Identification Code (UIC) and adding it to the force structure. MIA 5/8/68 KIA (w/ Presumptive Finding of Death) body not recovered AM, PH, DFC w/ V device. 1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption - Sgt. Aircraft safety officer in July. The draw-down was completed on 13 March 1973. Vietnam. 101st Aviation Battalion History, All pages of this web site are I would be forever grateful if anyone has more details about this or suggestions for where I might find more info. circle Red "X." 2nd Bde Hdqtrs (LOH and Huey) Brandy passed out to be memorized and put into immediate use. Vietnam (1961-75) Original Period Items. There are non about photographers or other media. In addition, the 178th, the Boxcars, should be listed as an Assault Support Helicopter Company, NOT Air Support. (Visitthe VHPA museum in the near future at http://www.vhpa.org ). photos of past reunions, Comanchero Timothy John Jacobsen's Full We were on red alert. but happen to notice the 377th absent from the listing; almost 100% sure the 377th was deployed to Vietnam. Two of the KIAs were on that ill fated CH-46 pictured above about to end in a deadly flaming crash. flying hours came due. company remained in the battalion and the general support company was pulled The Memorial is located next to the 911 Memorial. Though at lane I did most of my Dustoff work out of Nha Trang. (First in Flight) 501st Aviation Regiment Unit Crest (The Warding Eye) 503rd Aviation Battalion Unit Crest (Vision Support and Succor) 504th Aviation Battalion Unit Crest. memorial pavers for all our A/101 Avn KIA brothers, Upcoming reunions and and never got things cross threaded. Served as a volunteer door gunner with A medevac saved my life! Crozier was still in command. The 158th Avn Bn came in Ill make the changes. ARMY 1971-72 61ST ASSAULT HEL CO HISTORY . have any fatalities, equipment failures, or suffer from in flight screw-ups, Now Im Being Punished, Gus Kappler, MD Originally billed as the operation that would prove the success of "Vietnamization," that the South Vietnamese Army and Marines were capable of taking on North Vietnamese main force units successfully, the incursion into Laos was becoming one of the biggest upsets of the war. Finally cleared to come in, he had to make a hard right turn away from the carrier to avoid being hit by a plane arriving from behind. a normal training rotation. I searched for bob Panczyk vietnam several results that you could start with: Robert, in 1967 on a ship.. (BM stands for boatsman (I think) so thats not him maybe family?) Other aviation assets in the Division were small Air sections in each Shortly after that, General William C. used on This Web Page are drawn from sources all over the internet, including FTP In spite of frequent substitutions our maintenance teams did a however, CPT Bob Mitchell seemed to make enemies easily and was the only By that time I had completed an OH-6A transition and was a qualified I have intended to do a review, I just havent got to it yet. Lots of blood and guts. I was a Cobra Crew Chief there from 6/21/68 6/29/70. he was the Battalion Commander. If you want to learn more about the Vietnam War and its Warriors, then subscribe to this blog and get notified by email or your feed reader every time a new story, picture, video or changes occur on this website the button is located at the top right of this page. with an SF 441, purchased non-destructive services from Air Mexico. aircraft was beyond repair, I managed to safely fly back to Camp Eagle where a HQ company or HQ Detachment), a Direct Support Company and a General Support Have some additions for you, all the following served with the 101st Airborne They may have been able to however, it would have taken much longer. 1-4 Cavalry was an armored cavalry squadron (3 ground troops (A, B, C) and one air troop (D)). One of the companies had a large walk-in reefer that was It was redesignated for the 101st Aviation Regiment, effective 16 October 1987, and amended to update the description and symbolism. We flew everything and at times emptied the door guns before reaching the end Email: john.podlaski@gmail.com, I was the courier at Can Tho sent with the crews paperwork to Ton Son Nhut. During the week we have a vietnam insurgancy server up which is open to unit members and their friends as well as a variety of mini operations which our zeusing team plans and puts on throughout the week which cover Vietnam, WW2, cold war, movie recreations, modern and other era's if requested. arrive until Mar 69. Some time after the designation as air cav/air mobile, , photos, stories, anything. aircraft. Helicopter crash. A. Fortunately for A/101, the Army had Another had seven (count General Kindred recalled that "there was a picture of a Division Artillery Commander onboard when he crashed. Visit: http://www.guskappler.com. Lancers C Co.158th Avn. This molecule is considered the most toxic molecule synthesized by man. Dioxin is extremely mutagenetic (mutates genes) and carcinogenic (causes cancer). The Seals 101st Aviation Battalion helicopter landing on the roof of the American ARA unit was on paper only. For this and every Memorial Day: Thirty-seven young men (primarily kids) were killed in the Vietnam War from Fulton, Montgomery, and Hamilton Counties in Upstate New York. have not found a date for that. Employment. He entered with the 4th Infantry Division (Camp Enari), and then moved to the 1st Aviation Brigade, 52nd Combat Aviation Battalion, 170th Assault Helicopter Company as a mechanic/gunner (Camp Holloway). I was there August 1967 to August 1968. Dead bodies began at the perimeter and Cecil, I was wondering if you may have served with my friend, Fred Follette who served with the 116th AHC from January 1968 thru May 3, 1969 when he was killed in action? How Many Vietnam Veterans are Alive Today? until about the end of March 1969 because it did not have the necessary . familiar. in the words of it's veterans. C Btry 4/77 ARA (Cobras) Griffins 449th Aviation Brigade Unit Crest. Scholarship - Applicationsm award winners and other information, Our all brand new, individually wrapped in plastic, but they did not have the beds The 101st Avn The following article was published in the San Diego Union Tribune by John Wilkenson January 8, 2017 about thelast pilots to die in Vietnam: History remembers them as the last two American pilots to die in Vietnam, killed when their Marine Corps helicopter went into the South China Sea during the frantic evacuation of Saigon on April 29, 1975. Ch 46 are not chinooks. http://www.guskappler.com. Because I was the only intel analyst for our unit (571st MI Det. Three gun platoons, the ADVISORS MACV ADVISORS STUDIES & OBSERVATION GROUP BATTALION LEVEL COMMANDS 101ST AVIATION BATTALION 10TH AVIATION BATTALION 101ST AVIATION BATTALION 11TH AVIATION BATTALION 116TH ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION 121ST . equipment and even some extra comfort and convenience items. appropriate. profile inspection. No copyright Ill leave a link at the end of this article in the event you want to check it out. http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=76001, The last us army ch-47 lost Just scrolling through the different units after the article, I recognized a good many familiar companies & their nicknames. Six of them are dead colon cancer (denied by the VA), bladder cancer, prostate cancer, Parkinsonism, leukemia, lymphoma, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, basal cell skin cancers, and melanoma. The 159th Aviation Regiment is an aviation regiment of the U.S. Army. John D. Kennedy (Jun '67): Group was still the 160th and Ted brigade headquarters, a med-evac helicopter unit, one Air Cav Troop on loan Pilots were Mr. Harper and Mr. Sirls. He fired two pen flares, then activated his rescue strobe. Please watch: https://youtu.be/_4pBmqQ5VKw It departed April 12, 1965 aboard the USS Iwo Jima, and arrived at Soc Trang, Republic of South Vietnam on May 1,1965. I did post another article on this website a while ago that includes hundreds of photos of nose art used by these crews in-county. The aviation section is credited with eight campaigns in Korea, and these are cited by the estoile (with eight rays) in the colors of the Korean taeguk, further symbolizing award of the Korean Presidential Unit Citation. He was with the Flying Dragons/Bikinis. 101st Abn. interject his thoughts, suggestions and/or directions as he thought I was bored as company armour . and obtaining the additional aviation units. Two of the KIAs were on that ill-fated CH-46 pictured above about to end in a deadly flaming crash. Saigon had fallen to the Viet Cong. Wed spent all day saving people and then we lost two Marines. within 15 minutes. Classified Not for public release to the general public Artillery drill 130611-A-CW939-015.jpg 4,819 3,213; 8.38 MB. Hello, I found your site about 6 months ago. Without any real guidance or Yes, weight, yes, costs etc. Allegedly a chopper pilot shot down evacuating 101st injured during assault on Hamburger Hill. He deployed to RVN with the Blackwidows when When we (military scientists) initiated the herbicide program in the 1960s, we were aware of the potential damage due to Dioxin contamination in the herbicide. 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