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 […]
Sergeant Larry “Mac” McGee
Back in October of 2020, my 9 year old son Micah and I flew to Texas and began an amazing 10 day road trip throughout the state. We met some really amazing people, including Shannon Houdek. Shannon’s dad Larry “Mac” McGee was the Delta Company, 3-12 Infantry forward supply sergeant in Dak To, Vietnam from […]
Donald Sperl – May 8, 1968
On May 8, 1968, Corporal Donald Sperl, from Juneau, Alaska, was killed in action in Kontum Province, Republic of South Vietnam. The youngest of four children, he was single and 21 years old when he died. Described as having a magnetic personality, Donald was an accomplished basketball player and active in the local theater in […]
Gravesite Visit #3 – Sergeant Duane Johnson – Kerrville, Texas
October 4th, 2020 My son Micah and I left Petersburg at 3:00 PM, headed south on Alaska Airlines flight #64 to Wrangell, Ketchikan and finally Seattle, Washington, where we would stay the night before catching our next flight to San Antonio, Texas. This trip was the much anticipated beginning of a mission I gave myself […]