Birth 02JUL46 Rank PFC Date of Death 02JUL66 P. of birth Bismarck ND Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Puyallup Unit ... Death Code Non-Hostile Died; Other Ground Casualty; Vehicle Loss-Crash Hometown   service # 19861357 Panel 08EAST - 118 married Single MIA -   Medals   Tour Date 22APR66 Comment Died on his birthday Cemetery

Puyallup GI Killed in VN Another Pierce County resident has died in Viet Nam. Army Pfc. Lance J. Cleveland, son of Mrs. Anne S. Cleveland, of 522 2nd Ave. NW, Puyallup, was killed last Saturday while he was a passenger in a truck in South Viet Nam. Circumstances surrounding the soldier's death were not immediately available. Pfc. Cleveland, who died on his 20th birthday, was assigned to a transportation company as a truck driver. He was born in Bismarck ND, and was a 1965 graduate of Puyallup High School. Pfc. Cleveland was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Survivors besides his mother include a brother, James E., and a sister, Mary Ann, both of the home; and his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Andrusak, of Wilton ND. Services will be announced by Power Wrigley Clements Funeral Home, Puyallup. (News Tribune, Tacoma WA, 8 July 1966)

    Leslie Isma MORALES-LUCAS

Birth 17JUN39 Rank SGT Date of Death 02JUL66 P. of birth   Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Ponce, Puerto Rico Unit 25th Inf Div, C Co, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry Death Code Hostile, Died of Wounds, Ground Casualty, Multiple Fragmentation wounds Local Tacoma service # 2152236 Panel 08EAST - 120 Married Married Wounded   Medals   Tour Date 16APR66 Comment   Cemetery Puerto Rico

Good News, Then Bad For Sergeant's Wife     Mrs. Sandra Morales, of 606 S. 98th St. had a few bright hours Saturday before the doorbell rang.     She had been informed earlier last week that her husband, Sgt. Leslie L. Morales, 26, had been seriously wounded by a booby-trap in Viet Nam.     But first on Saturday came a government telegram telling her that Morales was improving. And then a letter arrived from a nurse, saying that her husband was doing well, talking about her and the baby, and looking forward to coming home.     "A couple of hours later an officer came to the door," Mrs. Morales said Monday. "He told me my husband was dead."     In the last letter she received from her husband, he told of being placed in charge of a squad of "real nice guys" and reported that they were about to leave on patrol.     "He said he was going out and get all the Viet Cong he could," she said.     Mrs. Morales, the former Sandra Lipscomb, met and married Morales 2 1/2 years ago when he was stationed at Fort Lewis with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry.     Last year, Morales was sent to Alaska, and then to Hawaii for jungle training before going to Viet Nam. He had been in Viet Nam exactly two months when he was wounded.     The Morales have a son, Leslie Morales Jr., 10 months old.     Sgt. Morales was a native of Puerto Rico and had been in the Army seven years.     Besides his wife and son, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eliseo Morales, of Ponce, Puerto Rico; four brothers; and three sisters.     One of his brothers, Spec. 4 Barney Morales, will accompany his body on the long journey from Viet Nam to Puerto Rico, where services and burial will be held.     Mrs. Morales said she will go to Puerto Rico for the services. Her mother, Mrs. Doris Lipscomb, is en route from Germany, where her husband is stationed with the Army, to stay with her daughter in the interim. (Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma WA, 4 Jul 1966) Picture received from his wife, Sandra Morales (email 4 Mar 2005)

     James Marvin GODSEY

Birth 16JUN47 Rank LCPL Date of Death 16JUL66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit K Co, 3rd Bn, 4th MARS Death Code Hostile Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2129169 Panel 09EAST - 28 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery   Nathan Hale High School, Seattle WA

    Ronald Edwin HOEL

Birth 11JUN34 Rank SSGT Date of Death 18JUL66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit Co K, 3 Bn, 4 MARS, 3 MAR Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 1193578 Panel 09EAST - 33 married Married MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery   Ballard High School, Seattle WA 1951

    John Charles THOMAS

Birth 03JAN47 Rank LCPL Date of Death 18JUL66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit A Co, 3 MED Bn, 3 MED Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2148365 Panel 09EAST - 35 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle WA

Thomas, Lance Cpl. John C., U.S.M.C., of 1203 Ballinger Way. Son of Mrs. Thelma Johnson, Seattle. Brother of Mrs. Victor A. De Marre, Issaquah; George Francis Johnson and Guy W. Woodward, both Seattle. Grandson of Mrs. Clara Jewel, Seattle and Mr. and Mrs. George F. Johnson, Olympia. Military services 2 p.m. Friday, at Home Undertaking Co., Interment, Washelli Veterans Cemetery. (Evergreen-Washelli, Seattle Obituary Records)

    Rolf Wallace JORGENSEN

Birth 11FEB45 Rank LCPL Date of Death 20JUL66 P. of birth Seattle Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit F Co, 2 Bn, 1 Mar, 3 Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown Magnolia (Seattle) service # 2057289 Panel 09EAST - 47 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery   Queen Anne High School, Seattle WA 1963

Ex-Seattleite Killed in Action In Viet-nam Marine Lance Corp. Rolf Jorgensen, 21, a former Seattle resident, was killed in action in Viet-Nam 20 Jul (1966), relatives learned here today. Jorgensen's aunt, Mrs. Axel Peterson, 3442 N. W. 62nd St., said he was serving with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, and apparently had taken part in Operation Hastings when he was killed. Mrs. Peterson received the word from Jorgensen's mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Todd. Jorgensen, a Seattle native lived in Magnolia many years. He attended Lawton Elementary and Blain (sic) Junior High and was graduated from Queen Anne High School. He has been in the Marine Corps three years and in Viet-Nam since August. Jorgensen's mother and stepfather lived in Walla Walla two years until three weeks ago when Todd, employed by the Army Engineers, was transferred to Hawaii. Jorgensen also is survived by his father, Carl Jorgensen, Seattle, two brothers, Fred Jorgensen, 24, Seattle, and Corp. Lee Jorgensen, 22, El Toro Marine Base CA.; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Almaas, Seattle and an uncle, Olaf Almaas, Seattle. (unknown Newspaper clipping, dated Jul 66) Seattle Marine Killed In South Viet Nam Action. Rolf W. Jorgensen, 21, of Seattle, a lance corporal in the Marine Corps, was killed in Operation Hastings in South Viet Nam on 20 Jul (1966). He suffered a fatal head injury in enemy action while serving with the Second Battalion, First Marines. Young Jorgensen had less than 60 days service left before he was expected to return to the United States. He left Seattle in March of 1965. A native of Seattle, Corporal Jorgensen attended Lawton Grade School, Catherine Blaine Junior High School and graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1963. Shortly after that he joined the Marine Corps. He received Marine training at San Diego and Camp Pendleton CA. He was on Okinawa with the 1st Marine Air Craft Wing and after leave in Seattle, he joined the First Marines and went to Viet Nam. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. N. A. Todd, of Honolulu; two brothers, Cpl. Lee M. Jorgensen, U. S. Marines, now stationed at Marine Air Station El Toro CA; and Fred Jorgensen of Seattle; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Almaas, Seattle. (unknown Newspaper clipping, dated 30 Jul 66)

    Terry Arden DENNISON

Birth 20JAN34 Rank CDR Date of Death 21JUL66 P. of birth   Service Navy Place N. Vietnam Town of Record Cosmopolis Unit VF 162 CVA 34 ORISKANY Death Code Hostile Died Captured; Fixed Wing - Pilot; Air Loss, Crash - Land Hometown   service # 531308653 Panel 09EAST - 37 married Married MIA - Captured 19 Jul 66 Died 21 Jul 66 Returned 6 Mar 74 Medals   Comment   Link Gunfighter's Site Cemetery Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno CA Washington State University, Pullman WA 1956

(MIA records extracted from P.O.W. Network). Terry Arden Dennison was born 20 Jan 1934. He was the pilot of a Vought F8 "Crusader", a single person fighter and bomber. On 19 Jul 1966 he was part of a strike force that attacked the Co Trai Bridge. His aircraft was struck by a missle and was immediately enveloped in flames. No chute was observed but the emergency homing signal was activated for just a few seconds after the crash. Radio Hanoi later broadcasted that a Vietnamese missile unit shot down a U.S. Aircraft on the outskirts of Hanoi and that the pilot was captured. After the war Vietnamese authorities informed American officials that Lt. Dennison died on 21 Jul 66. He was one of more that 20 Americans who died in captivity in Hanoi and were buried at Van Dien Cemetery. (southern suburbs Hanoi) These remains were re-interred in Ba Huyen Cemetery in 1972 and repatriated on 6 Mar 1974. (most of this extraction is a report by Bob Destatte)
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    Robert Elvis STALLINGS

Birth 17APR48 Rank PFC Date of Death 22JUL66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Spokane Unit Co L, 3/5th Mar, 1st Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire Hometown   service # 2148237 Panel 09EAST - 60 Married Married Link Lewis & Clark Medals Bronze Star Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

Spokane Marine Dies in Viet Nam Spokane native Pfc. Robert E. Stallings, 18, was killed in action with the 5th Marines near the Quan Cam Lo district, Quang Tri Province, in S. Viet Nam Friday. According to a Marine Corps official notification late Saturday, he died of "gunshot wounds while engaged in action against hostile forces". Pfc Stallings attended Franklin Grade School and Rogers and Lewis and Clark high schools. He entered the Marine Corps in May '65 and received basic training at Camp Pendleton CA. Stallings had been overseas since February of this year and had participated in three campaigns in Viet Nam. He is survived by his wife, Delores Renee, and an infant son, whom he had never seen at the N.... Excell Drive home; his mother, Mrs. Gladys Jewett, N.... Hughes Drive and father, Harold Stallings, N.... Perry. (Spokesman Review, Spokane WA, 26 Jul 1966)

Bronze Star A. Spokane Marine, killed in action 22 Jul 1966 in South Vietnam, recently was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V," Marine Corps officials said today. Pfc. Robert E. Stallings received the recognition for his achievements while serving with the 5th Marine Regiment in action on the date of his death. The medal, with accompanying citation was presented to his widow, Mrs. Renee Stallings, N7318 Excell Drive, in ceremonies held at a meeting of the Armed Services Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Making the presentation was Maj. A. C. Ledbetter, former inspector-instructor of the 5th 155 mm Howitzer Battery here. Also present were Pfc. Stallings' mother, Mrs. Gladys S. Jewett, N7507 Hughes Drive, and his father, Harold E. Stallings, N6611 Perry. (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane WA, 5 Jan 1968)

    Donald Gene DAVENPORT

Birth 24NOV31 Rank GSGT Date of Death 23JUL66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Thua Thein, S. Vietnam Town of Record Snoqualmie Falls Unit O Co, 3/12th Mar, 3rd Mar Div Death Code Hostile Died; Fixed Wing - NonCrew; Air Loss Crash - Land Hometown   service # 1138506 Panel 09EAST - 61 married Married MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

    Daniel William HARMON

Birth 17APR48 Rank PFC Date of Death 24JUL66 P. of birth Chehalis Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Bremerton Unit 3rd Bn, 5 Mars, 1 Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown   service # 2148176 Panel 09EAST - 68 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery Woodlawn Memorial park

    SAD PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ragsdale, 1141 Morgan Road, re-read the Monday Bremerton Sun account of the battle in which her son, Pfc. Daniel W. Harmon, was killed. Ragsdale holds a picture of the 18-year-old Marine who is believed to be the first Kitsap County resident killed in action in Viet Nam. [Caption below picture of his parents sitting on couch]
Bremerton Marine, 18, Killed in Viet Fighting
    Marine Pfc. Daniel William Harmon, 18-year-old son of Mrs. Howard Ragsdale, 1141 Morgan Road, was killed by enemy action in Viet Nam Sunday.
    Harmon is believed to be the first Kitsap County serviceman to die in battle in Viet Nam.
    The young man was a member of India Company of the 5th Marine Regiment which was ambushed by communist soldiers during Operation Hastings near the North Viet Nam border.
    The ambush, described as “darn near a massacre,” was reported in Monday’s edition of The Sun.
    “I had a funny feeling when I read that story,” Mrs. Ragsdale said as she and the boy’s step-father Wednesday afternoon re-read the story.
    News of her son’s death was delivered in person to Mrs. Ragsdale by Lt. Col. Robert M. Krippner, commanding officer of Bremerton Marine Barracks, Tuesday afternoon.
    Information from the Marine Corps indicate that Harmon died of multiple shrapnel wounds from an enemy “explosive device” while in action in Quang Tri Province of Viet Nam.
    The young man enlisted in the Marine Corps in Bremerton in April, 1965, after attending schools here and Prosser. He received his recruit training at San Diego and had been stationed in Okinawa until his 18th birthday when he was sent to Viet Nam.
    He was born 17 Apr 1948, in Chehalis. Though moving around a lot, he had spent a larger part of his life in Prosser and here.
    Surviving, in addition to his mother and step-father, are a sister, Susan Ragsdale, 3; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Soper of Washington Veterans Home, Retsil; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Harmon, Canby, Ore.; several aunts and uncles, Mrs. Ed (Lola) Dobeas of Chico, James Conklin of Enumclaw,; Mrs. Harlan (Betty) Turner, Newhalem (Whatcom County), and Mrs. James (Gladys) Cottier of San Antonio, Tex., and many cousins.
    Funeral arrangements will be made by Miller-Reynolds Funeral Home here after his body is returned from Viet Nam.(Bremerton Sun 28 Jul 1966)

HARMON, Daniel William - 18, 1141 Morgan Road, Bremerton, was killed during Operation Hastings in Viet Nam July 24, 1966. Pfc. Harmon was born 17 Apr 1948. Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Howard Ragsdale, sister, Susan Ragsdale, both of the family home; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Soper, Retsil, Washington; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Harmon, Canby, Oregon. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, 10 Aug 1966 at the MILLER - REYNOLDS FUNERAL HOME. Internment will be at Woodlawn Memorial park (Bremerton Sun 4 Aug 1966)

    Dan William BEARGEON

Birth 27FEB46 Rank CPL Date of Death 25JUL66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam, S. Vietnam Town of Record Seattle Unit 3rd Mar Div, 3rd Bn, 9th Marines Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Hometown Duluth service # 2046292 Panel 09EAST - 72 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date   Cemetery

    Arthur Harris DYVIG Jr.

Birth 06OCT47 Rank PFC Date of Death 25JUL66 P. of birth   Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Ridgefield Unit 1st Inf Div E Co 701st Maint Bn Death Code Non-Hostile, Died Other Ground Casualty Intentional Homicide Hometown   service # 19817221 Panel 09EAST - 73 married Single MIA -   Medals   Comment   Tour Date 15 Mar 66 Cemetery Willamette National Cemetery, Portland OR

County GI Loses Life in Viet Nam
Arthur H. Dyvig Jr. died Monday in Viet Nam of a gunshot wound suffered in combat. Death of the 18-year-old Ridgefield area soldier was reported to his father in a War Department telegram delivered personally Wednesday by a representative of the U. S. Army.
Pfc. Dyvig thus becomes the second Clark County man reported killed in the Viet Nam war. Roy F. Harbison of Vancouver was killed in March.
The youth's father, Arthur H. Dyvig Sr., lives in a modest frame house at Rt. 1, Box 570, Ridgefield. Thursday he and two daughters, Mrs. Carolyn Randolph of Tillamook Or and Miss Carolyn Dyvig of Ridgefield, traced Pfc. Dyvig's life and the events leading up to his death in the jungles of Viet Nam.
Pfc. Dyvig was born and grew up in the little Clark County community known as Duluth where the elder Mr. Dyvig still lives. He attended Ridgefield High School but quit school to join the Army "about 22 months ago."
Last August he was sent over seas to Korea. He wanted to serve in Viet Nam and put in for a transfer to that battle area. His transfer was granted last February.
"He was going to come home in March," the youth's father said.
Funeral arrangements of Pfc. Dyvig are still undetermined, the family said, pending further notification from the Army.
Pfc. Dyvig is survived by one other sister, Mrs. Betty Randolph of Tillamook Or, and a brother, Berkeley Dyvig of San Francisco. (Columbian, Vancouver WA, 29 Jul 1966)

    Galileo Fred BOSSIO

Birth 12MAR20 Rank COL Date of Event 29JUL66 P. of birth   Service Air Force (Reserve) /td> Place N. Vietnam/Laos Town of Record Deer Park Unit 8TH CMBT SPT GP Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Fixed Wing - Crew; Air Loss, Crash - Land Hometown   service # 518051947 Declared Dead 04APR78 married Married Panel 09EAST - 85 Medals   MIA BNR Comment   Cemetery Fort George Wright Cem., Spokane WA

(MIA information extracted from POWNetWork.org) Galileo Fred Bossio was born 12 Mar 1920. He was a Major serving with 388th Combat Support Group stationed at Udorn Airbase, Thailand. On 29 Jul 1966 he was aboard a RC47D aircraft to do visual reconnaissance for the CIA's secret indigenous army in Laos. The ship was unarmed and unable to defend itself when attacked by enemy fighters. One or two parachutes were observed in the air from persons on the ground. and while first released as downed over North Vietnam it was later learned that the plane was over Laos. One report indicated 5 of the 8 member crew survived. What is know that in in 1988 remains of 5 crew members were returned. Bossio still remains missing For more information visit pownetwork.org