JAMES HAROLD BARKER

Birth 24SEP46 Rank PFC Date of Death 01JAN67 P. of birth   Service Marines (Reserve) Place Quang Nam S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit K Co 3rd Bn 1st Marines Death Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2177924 Panel 13EAST - 106 Married Married In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date   Comment Died at Naval Hospital, Bremerton, Washington Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

JOHN HENRY O'BRIEN

Birth 22DEC45 Rank SP4 Date of Death 02JAN67 P. of birth   Service Army Place Kontum S. Vietnam Town of Record Butte Falls Unit 101st Abn Div C Co 2nd Bn 502nd Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 19845834 Panel 13EAST - 111 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 22APR66 Comment   Cemetery

THOMAS RICHARD SIEBEN

Birth 06AUG44 Rank SGT Date of Death 10JAN67 P. of birth   Service Army Place Binh Duong S. Vietnam Town of Record Corvallis Unit 1st Inf Div B Co 1st Bn 28th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 19781359 Panel 14EAST - 07 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 17NOV66 Comment   Cemetery

War Claims Oregon Man
    Corvallis - A 22-year-old Corvallis man was among 13 men killed in hostile action in Vietnam during the past week, the Defense Department disclosed Friday.
    Dead is Sgt. Thomas R. Sieben, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert U. Sieben, of 969 Polk St., Corvallis. Sieben, a member of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division, was killed in hostile sniper fire. He had been in Vietnam only two months.
    Sieben, a 1963 graduate of Corvallis High School, enlisted in the Army in 1963. From 1964 to 1966 he was stationed with the 24th Infantry Division in Germany. He volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam last November.
    He was the 83rd Oregon serviceman to die in Vietnam and the 75th in combat. (The Oregonian, Portland OR, 14 Jan 1967)

WAYNE CONRAD REINECKE

Birth 08MAY46 Rank AX3 Date of Death 12JAN67 P. of birth   Service Navy Place NY N. Vietnam Town of Record Milwaukie Unit 7TH FLEET HS-8 TF 77 USS BENNINGTON CVS-20 Death Code Non Hostile, Died Missing; Air Loss, Crash - Sea Helicopter - Crew Hometown   service # 7743698 Panel 14EAST - 17 Married Single In Service   Medals   MIA BNR Comment   Cemetery

Extracted information from the POWNetwork) The PowNetWork has little information, currently, about this crash More information about this incident is available at PowNetWork.Org

JOSEPH RAYE ORTIS

Birth 21APR47 Rank PFC Date of Death 17JAN67 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Binh Duong S. Vietnam Town of Record Oakland Unit 1st Inf Div A Co 1st Bn 26th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Other Explosive Devices Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 56410708 Panel 14EAST - 45 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 06DEC66 Comment   Cemetery

EARL FREDERICK SMITH

Birth 14MAR44 Rank 2LT Date of Death 26JAN67 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam S. Vietnam Town of Record Albany Unit CO H 2/5TH MAR 1ST MAR DIV Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 95344 Panel 14EAST - 82 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery

Operation Tuscaloosa
    This book was written by John J. Culbertson about 4 days in January 1967. While the whole book would be an important read for understanding the last few days of 2Lt. Earl Frederick Smith, his last battle begins Chapter 27 and ends on Chapter 29 with the statistics 57 enemy KIA (no WIA found); 12 Marines KIA; 42 WIA; 32 of WIA needing evacuation. Final count would be 17 Marines dying on a sandbar island in hostile Song Thu Bon valley. Four days of hell, horror, and courage. . . OPERATION TUSCALOOSA 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, at AnHoa, 1967 by John J. Culbertson, copyright June 1997, publisher Ivy Books.

LLOYD FRANCIS WALKER

Birth 16JUN21 Rank MAJ Date of Death 31JAN67 P. of birth   Service Air Force (Reserve) Place LZ Laos Town of Record Mount Angel Unit   Death Code Hostile, Died; Air Loss, Crash - Land Fixed Wing - Pilot Hometown   service # 765162 Panel 14EAST - 102 Married Married In Service   Medals Purple Heart   MIA BNR Comment   Cemetery

Extracted information from the POWNetwork) Major Lloyd F. Walker was the pilot of a 12th Air Commando Squadron UC123B which was sent on a defoliation mission (Agent Orange) on 31 Jan 1967 over Laos. As the aircraft leveled off to start spraying it's propeller was struck by hostile fire. The aircraft crashed about 5 miles south-southwest of Sepone in Savannakhet Province, Laos. After an investigation it was decided that Major Walker and his crew of 4 (which consisted of 3 captains and 1 Airman 1st class/flight mechanic) had died in the crash. Not one of the nearly 600 Americans who are listed as missing in Laos were returned. More information about this incident is available at PowNetWork.Org

Oregon Major Dies in Battle Salem (AP Air Force Maj. Lloyd F. Walker, 45, was shot down and killed on a flying mission over enemy territory in Vietnam, relatives here were notified Tuesday. A veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict, he was a pilot. Walker was born and reared at Mount Angel and attended Oregon State University for two years. He leaves a widow, the former Betty Fay Guttenberg of Salem, and four children at home in Clovis NM. (The Oregonian, Portland OR, 1 Feb 1967)