ROBERT WILLIAM STANLEY

Birth 18APR41 Rank CPT Date of Death 01APR67 P. of birth   Service Air Force (Reserve) Place Quang Nam S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit 7TH AF 12TH TFW 557TH TFS Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Air Loss, Crash - Land Fixed Wing - Pilot Hometown   service # 541466372 Panel 17EAST - 88 Married Married In Service   Medals Purple Heart  MIA BNR Comment   Cemetery

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BROOKE MCKAY SHADBURNE

Birth 01JUL39 Rank CPT Date of Death 05APR67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Ngai, S. Vietnam Town of Record Ashland Unit VMO 6 MAG 36 1ST MAW Death Code Hostile, Died; Air Loss, Crash - Land Helicopter - Pilot Hometown   service # 86093 Panel 17EAST - 108 Married Married In Service 8 yrs Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Plano TX

Lets Win A War," Captain Said - Then The Helicopter Hit A Mine.
By Leverett Richards Staff writer The Oregonian.
    I've decided the name of the house I am going to build someday will be "The House With A Song In Its Heart.'"
    That's the dream Marine Capt. Brooke Shadburne of Ashland, had in his heart when he wrote his last letter to his mother, Mrs. H. Deacon Shadburne, in Ashland, 28 Feb (1967). Only he won't be building that house.
    He and his helicopter were blown to bits by a Viet Cong mine 6 Apr (1967) while Capt. Shadburne was trying to rescue a party of wounded Marines near the demilitarized zone, in South Vietnam.
    Capt. Shadburne married to Sue Klink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Klink, 2648 SW Sherwood Dr., had time to write only because he was laid up with a back injury for a few days at his Marine base on Marble Mountain near Da Nang in the northern part of South Vietnam.
    He loved music and was drinking in the soothing strains of his hifi as he wrote "As I see it, we are currently trying to expand our THOR (Tactical Area of Responsibility) so that we control the people inside that area. We than give them tin to rebuild a model village and a school.
Idea Sounds Great.
    "Gradually the idea is to push out the VC, educate the children, prove that we are good white people, not bad like the French, and help them establish moderate agarian reforms.
'Sounds Great'
    " But a half mile south of our Marble Mountain Air Facility Helo Base at Da Nang there is a tiny village, typical of so many thousand in the area. Within the last year, it has "lost" two mayors.
    "The first was kidnapped. The second was killed along with his family. The present one had his young son's fingers broken by the VC and finger nails pulled out one by one.
    "Today there was a three-year old girl in the hospital daughter of an ex-town chief. The chief and his wife were beaten and killed in view of the child and then the little girl was beaten.
Cong Own Night.
    "She is disfigured but still alive in our hospital at 3 years of age.
    "How can we educate during the day? How can we expect a stable government when we only own the day and in the night the VC come in with a new Russian sub-machine gun to cast their own brand of veto to any local election?
    " They extract their rice tax, grab the youth for recruits and by day- who is to know? They wear black P.J.s and straw hats like every one else." Said Capt. Shadburne,
"We can't win hearts! Lets win a war!"
    He advocated all-out measures such as cutting off all of North Vietnam's supplies by land, sea, air, cutting off the flow of men and material into South Vietnam; making a " mighty sweep" through South Vietnam to clean out remaining guerrillas.
    "Then, and only then, rearm, train and supervise the ARVN (Army of Vietnam), teach the children, aid the Homeless, help in agrarian reform. Only then will it do any good."
    "I personally can't see coming back after six months Stateside to this kind of (half war). I plan to turn in my regular commission, resignation next month and hope they buy it.<"
    His reasons, he said, were primarily a young family (three children, aged 4,2, and 1).
    "It simply isn't fair to be gone two-thirds of the time, risking my life to enforce in a very questionable way a very questionable foreign policy."
    Today, Memorial Day. the flag for which he fought and died flies over Capt. Shadburne's grave in Plano TX. The Oregonian, Portland OR, Memorial Day 1967)

DONALD GENE MILLER

Birth 23NOV44 Rank SP4 Date of Death 07APR67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Phuoc Tuy S. Vietnam Town of Record Myrtle Point Unit 9th Inf Div B Co 2nd Bn 39th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Misadventure Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 56410050 Panel 17EAST - 117 Married Married In Service 1 yr Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 13DEC66 Comment   Cemetery

JAMES WILBUR FOSTER

Birth 31JUL47 Rank PFC Date of Death 10APR67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Quang Ngai S. Vietnam Town of Record Scappoose Unit 1st Cav Div D Co 1st Bn 5th Cav Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 56927998 Panel 18EAST - 09 Married Single Link Ranger Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 22FEB67 Comment   Cemetery

GARY WAYNE MARTINI

Birth 21SEP48 Rank PFC Date of Death 21APR67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit F Co 2nd Bn 1st Mar Regt 1st Mar Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2217825 Panel 18EAST - 61 Married Single In Service 1 yr Medals Medal of Honor  Purple Heart   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery

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KIT BLACKWELDER

Birth 08JAN48 Rank PFC Date of Death 22APR67 P. of birth   Service Army Place Unknown S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit 173rd Abn Bde A Co 1st Bn 503rd Inf Death Code Non Hostile, Died Other; Air Loss, Crash - Land Helicopter - NonCrew Hometown   service # 18957683 Panel 18EAST - 67 Married Single In Service   Medals   Tour Date 08MAR67 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

Kit Blackwelder Funeral for Pfc. Kit Blackwelder, 1704 SE 22nd Ave., will be Monday at 11 a.m. at Holman's Funeral Service. Burial will be in Willamette National Cemetery. Pfc Blackwelder was killed 22 Apr (1967) in South Vietnam. He was born 8 Jan 1949, at Portland. He was a 1966 graduate of Benson High School and a member of the Hinson Memorial Baptist Church. Survivors include the parents, 1st Sgt. and Mrs. Louis Blackwelder; one brother, Duane; two sisters, Sondra and Cindy, and a grandmother. (The Sunday Oregonian, Portland OR, 30 Apr 1967)

RONALD LEE BARBER

Birth 18JAN47 Rank LCPL Date of Death 24APR67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri S. Vietnam Town of Record Umatilla Unit B CO,1 BN,9 MAR,3 MAR DIV Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2220036 Panel 18EAST - 79 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

BRADLEY ALBERT NELSON

Birth 11AUG47 Rank PFC Date of Death 24APR67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit BTRY D 2 BN 12 MAR 3 MAR DIV Death Code Hostile, Died; Other Explosive Devices Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2204121 Panel 18EAST - 80 Married Single In Service 1 yr Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

Bradley A. Nelson
    Funeral for Bradley Albert Nelson, 4524 NE 70th Ave., who was killed recently in action in Vietnam, will be Friday, 5 May (1967) at Ross Hollywood Chapel with interment at Willamette National Cemetery with full military honors.
    PFC Nelson, a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, died 24 Apr (1967) in a bomb explosion at Quang Tri, Republic of South Vietnam. He was 19.
    A native of Longview WA, Nelson was graduated from Madison High School, Portland, in 1964. He had lived in Portland for 11 years.
    He was active as a photographer for the Madison High School annual during his senior year. He joined the Marines in December, 1965 and had served in Vietnam since September, 1965.
    He was a member of the Church of Christ.
    He is survived by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Nelson, Portland; two sisters, Anna Christine and Ruby Gayle, both of Portland; a brother, Vernon; an aunt and Grandmother, Mrs. Lotta Oleson, McMinnville. The Oregonian, Portland OR, Wednesday, 3 May 1967)

RONALD HAROLD JOHNSON

Birth 30OCT45 Rank SN Date of Death 28APR67 P. of birth San Jose CA.   Service Navy Place Subic Bay PI, standdown in port Town of Record Springfield Unit USS Bennington CVS-20 Death Code Non Hostile, accidental death, in port Hometown Springfield   service # B803651 Panel 18EAST - 109 Married Single Wounded 19 Apr 1967   Medals   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery

Local Sailor Killed in Carrier Mishap
    A Springfield sailor, Seaman Ronald Harold Johnson, 21, died Friday, 28 Apr 1967, as a result of an accident aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bennington CVS-20 on 19 Apr 1967, his parents were informed.
    The Navy reported that Johnson was injured aboard the carrier when he was pinned between a gun port and railing and badly crushed. After the accident he was rushed to the Subic Bay Naval hospital in the Philippines, where he died.
    The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnson of 1163 D St., he graduated from Springfield High school in 1964 and attended Lane Community college and the University of Oregon before enlisting in the Navy in September of 1966. Previously he was active in the area Sea Scouts and Explorer Post. He was born in San Jose CA on 30 Oct 1945.
    Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, David, at home, grandmother, Mrs. Olga M. Merritt of Oakland CA, and numerous other relatives.
    Services are pending at Buell Chapel. (Springfield News, Eugene OR, 1 May 1967)

JOHN FREDERICK FLEMING

Birth 17FEB45 Rank SP4 Date of Death 29APR67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Military Reg 4 S. Vietnam Town of Record Grants Pass Unit 9th Inf Div B Co 2nd Bn 39th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Other Explosive Devices Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 56410031 Panel 18EAST - 114 Married Single In Service 1 yr Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 13DEC66 Comment   Cemetery