Alpha & Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment – November 28th thru December 7th, 1967 combined operation.
The following summary was compiled from information gathered from battalion Operations Daily Journals, 4th Infantry Division Operational Readiness Report Lessons Learned, casualty and other records. These daily summaries are not the complete story of each day, just a brief description of the items noted in the journals and logs. Each soldier present in the battalion […]
Gravesite Visit #40 – Specialist Fourth Class Robert J Larson – Minneapolis, Minnesota
After visiting the grave of SP4 John Lobsinger at Lakewood Cemetery, I headed southeast toward my next stop. Ft. Snelling National Cemetery, located on the south side of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, is a sprawling National Cemetery, filled with tens of thousands of military markers. There were two 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry soldiers to visit […]
Gravesite Visit #5 – Private First Class Sanders Key Stroud II – Corpus Christi, Texas
On the morning of October 8th, 2020, my then nine-year old son Micah and I met Frank Morrison and his wife Tracy at a small diner in Corpus Christi, Texas. Micah and I were on day four of a ten-day trip, having spent the previous day playing tourist at the USS Lexington Museum ship. He […]