Joseph “Joe”John Steimbach SP/5 – U.S. Army 4th Inf Div 2nd Bde LRRP 23 July 1945 – 12 April 1968 Jacksonville, Florida Panel 49E, Line 36 Removing booby-trapped SKSs from VC arms cache, February 1968 MILITARY DATA Service: Army (Regular) Grade at loss: E5 Rank: …
John Victor “Vic” Power May 20, 1996 John Victor “Vic” Power, was my best friend, we came to the 2nd Bde LRRPs together from the 9th Div. We pulled a couple of LRRP missions together as teammates, but we were usually on different teams. We bunked next to each other and we became best friends. I rotated home in Dec…
PFC EDDIE DEAN CARPENTER June 26, 1950 – November 13, 1969 Killed in Action in Vietnam Eddie was born in Breathitt County, Kentucky to father Herbert Carpenter Sr. (1917 – 1983) and mother Julia M “Ellie” Trent Carpenter (1915 – 1999). It was a large family of 13 children and raised in a very rural area of Kentucky. His father…
Earl David Broach SP/4 – U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division — Company K (Ranger), 75th Infantry 09 December 1950 – 03 August 1970 Dallas, Texas Panel 08W, Line 78 MILITARY DATA Service: Army (Regular) Grade at loss: E4 Rank: Specialist Fourth…
Luther James Doss Jr. SSGT – U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division — Company K (Ranger), 75th Infantry 09 February 1948 – 30 April 1970 Glen Burnie, Maryland Panel 11W, Line 72 MILITARY DATA Service: Army (Selective Service) Grade at loss: E6 Rank: …
WILLIAM HENRY BARTHOLOMEW JR. April 9, 1948 – January 23, 1970 Billy was born in the small Pennsylvania Community of Catasauqua in the picturesque Lehigh Valley on the banks of the Lehigh River. His parents were William Henry Bartholomew (1926-2001) and Helen Pauline Fehnel Bartholomew (1929-2014). They had both been born in the Borough and were high school sweethearts. Father,…
Armin Jochaim Blake SFC – U.S. Army 4th Inf Div 2nd Bde LRRP — 2nd Battalion and 8th Inf (Mechanized) 19 September 1934 – 22 March 1969 Denver, Colorado Panel 28W Line 8 MILITARY DATA Service: Army (Regular) Grade at loss: E7 Rank: …
Michael H. McIntosh McIntosh, Dalke, Bowron (Vietnam) Michael Hugh McIntosh, 69, of Indialantic passed away from esophageal cancer on February 8, 2015 at his sister’s home in Rockledge. Michael was born in Corpus Christi, TX to Hugh McIntosh, Jr. and Katherine Montgomery McIntosh, who predeceased him. He graduated from Clairemont High School in San Diego, CA in 1963, and attended…
Dickie Waine Finley SSGT – U.S. Army Rank at loss: PFC 4th Inf Div 2nd Bde LRRP 29 June 1947 – MIA 21 October 1968 Sweet Springs, Missouri Panel 40W, Line 11 MILITARY DATA Service: Army (Selective Service) Grade at loss: E3 Rank: …
Ernest E. Eidem 1948-2007 From Allentown PA Morning Call, July 28, 2007 Ernest E. Eidem, 59, of 604 Iron St., Lehighton, passed away Friday, July 27, 2007, at Blue Mountain Health Systems Gnaden Huetten Campus, Lehighton. He was the husband of Kathleen A. Rehrig Eidem. They were married for 34 years on June 30. Born in Mahoning Township, he was…