FRED JASON SECRIST

Birth 02OCT48 Rank SP4 Date of Death 09JAN68 P. of birth Eugene   Service Army Place Quang Tin S. Vietnam Town of Record Springfield Unit 1st Avn Bde C Trp 7th Sqdr 17th Cav Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Air Loss, Crash - Land Helicopter - Crew Hometown   service # 18959800 Panel 34EAST - 11 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 10OCT67 Comment   Cemetery Lane Memorial Gardens Cemetery

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    GERALD ALLEN HIUKKA

Birth 28JAN47 Rank PFC Date of Death 13JAN68 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri S. Vietnam Town of Record Albany Unit CO M 3 BN 9 MARS 3 MAR DIV Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2352573 Panel 34EAST - 42 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 07DEC67 Comment   Cemetery

    TERRY ADAM GRAY

Birth 30AUG48 Rank LCPL Date of Death 15JAN68 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Thua Thien S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit   Death Code Hostile, Died; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2325858 Panel 34EAST - 52 Married Single In Service 1 yr Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 07AUG67 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 13NOV48 Rank PFC Date of Death 21JAN68 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Medford Unit Co B, 3d RECON Bn, 3d MAR Div Death Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Other Explosive Devices; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2352527 Panel 35EAST - 02 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 06DEC67 Comment   Cemetery

    PAUL ROBERT BELLAMY

Birth 24OCT48 Rank LCPL Date of Death 21JAN68 P. of birth Portland  Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit Co K, 3/26th MAR, 3d MAR Div Death Code Hostile, Died; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2352642 Panel 35EAST - 02 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 28SEP67 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

War Victim Rites . Service for Marine Cpl. Paul Robert Bellamy, 19, who was killed 21 Jan (1968), in action in Vietnam, will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Mt. Scott Funeral Home. Burial will follow with full military rites at Willamette National Cemetery. Cpl. Bellamy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery G. Bellamy, 6723 SE 69th Ave., was killed on Hill 861 in the Khe Sanh area. He was team leader of a rifle squad at the time of his death with K Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Regiment. Born in Portland, Cpl. Bellamy attended Joseph Lane Grade School and Franklin High School. He entered the Marine Corps in April of 1967, took his training at Camp Pendleton CA, and was sent to Vietnam last September. He was a member of Lents Chapter of Demolay, Children of the American Revolution and Ducks Unlimited. Besides his parents, survivors include a brother, David, Portland; a sister, Mrs. Judy Friedman of Honolulu; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thomas, Calimesa CA, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bellamy, Portland and Mrs. D. Newton Johnson, Portland. (The Oregonian, Portland OR, 3 Feb 1968)

    JERRY OSCAR STENBERG

Birth 29APR47 Rank LCPL Date of Death 21JAN68 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Klamath Falls Unit 3rd MAR Div, C Co, 1st Bn, 13th MARINES Death Code Hostile, Died; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2274862 Panel 35EAST - 10 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 27JUN67 Comment   Cemetery

    JERRY DAN WELLS

Birth 15DEC48 Rank PFC Date of Death 22JAN68 P. of birth   Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit 101st Abn Div, B Co, 1st Bn, 501st Inf Death Code Non Hostile, Died Other; Drowned, Suffocated; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 18960019 Panel 35EAST - 12 Married Single In Service   Medals   Tour Date 03SEP67 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

    JAMES MAYNARD BERGE

Birth 13JAN44 Rank SP4 Date of Death 23JAN68 P. of birth   Service Army Place Kontum S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit 4th Inf Div A Co 3rd Bn 12th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 18958130 Panel 35EAST - 13 Married Married In Service   Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 28AUG67 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 06FEB49 Rank PFC Date of Death 25JAN68 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri, S. Vietnam Town of Record Eugene Unit K Co, 3rd Bn, 1st MARS Death Code Hostile, Died; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2352525 Panel 35EAST - 31 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 13NOV67 Comment   Cemetery

    TERRY DEAN FINCH

Birth 29MAR48 Rank CPL Date of Death 26JAN68 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Binh Dinh, S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit 173rd Abn Bde, Bde HHC Death Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 56931850 Panel 35EAST - 39 Married Single Link Casper Platoon Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 23NOV67 Comment   Cemetery

    JAMES ROLAND GOLZ

Birth 12MAR49 Rank PFC Date of Death 27JAN68 P. of birth Portland   Service Marines Place Quang Tri S. Vietnam Town of Record Eugene Unit I CO 3RD BN 26TH MARS Death Code Hostile, Died; Artillery, Rocket, Mortar; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2388747 Panel 35EAST - 46 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 05DEC67 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

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Dead Son's Buddies to Get That Flag
By Bob Newcomb, of the Register-Guard
    As Mrs. R. W. (Gladys) Golz of Eugene sees it her 18 year-old son -- where he still alive -- today would be with the 5,000 Marines fighting to hold Hill 881 South in Khe Sanh, Vietnam.
    And if those men are in need of a replacement for the tattered American flag they now raise in daily defiance of encircling North Vietnamese troops, then they shall have one.
    Mrs. Golz, of Rte 3 Box 705 McBeth Road, southwest of Eugene read an Associated Press story in the Register Guard Thursday night, telling of the difficulty a Marine unit there is having in getting a new flag.
    The unit in need of the flag -- India Company of the 26th Marine Regiment's 3rd Battalion, commanded by Capt William Dabney of Glouscester VA -- is the same one her son, Pfc. James Golz, was serving in when killed in action last month.
    Friday, Mrs. Golz spent $8 for a new 3 by 5 foot flag, then wrapped and mailed it to Capt. Dabney, with an accompanying note. If mail is still getting through to the besieged outpost, it should arrive there in about a week.
    "When I read the story," Mrs Golz said, "I thought these must be awfully brave boys and they must think what they're fighting for is pretty worth while."
    That story, by AP writer John T. Wheller, was datelined from Khe Sanh and told how every day, on Hill 881 South, "grimy, bearded Marines taunt a large North Vietnamese force surrounding them with what probably ranks as the most dangerous American flag raising ceremony in the world."
    The enemy, he reported, always is within earshot and sight of the morning ceremony, which includes a bugle call and the raising of the battalion's only American flag -- tattered by high winds -- on a makeshift flag pole.
    The daily ceremony, which always is answered by enemy mortar fire, Wheeler reported, "has caught the imagination of encircled Marines, most of whom are unabashedly patriotic," The Marines stand at attention in their trenches and salute when the colors are raised, then dive for cover, anticipating the enemy volley.
    No other flag is available at the outpost, the story continued, and an order for a replacement has been placed far down on a priority list by supply men who are concerned mainly with food, water and ammunition to the unit.
    What spurred Mrs. Golz to action Friday was another statement in the AP story, quoting a Marine officer as saying: "What we need is a flag as tough as those guys on 881. Maybe someone at home will send them one."
    Mrs. Golz hopes the flag she sent, manufactured appropriately by the Defiance Flag Co., will be tough enough. In her note to Capt. Dabney, she expressed that thought, she said.
    "I said I just wanted to present the flag to them in my son's name, and I signed my name and the children's." Mrs. Golz, a widow, has three daughters and two sons at home.
    Jim once told me he was proud to be a Marine," she said. "If he were still alive, I imagine he would be there with them (on Hill 881) now." (Eugene Register-Guard, Eugene OR, 25 Feb 1968)

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    ROBERT WILLIAM NEHER

Birth 01SEP48 Rank SP4 Date of Death 29JAN68 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Binh Duong S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit 25th Inf Div A Co 3rd Bn 22nd Inf Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 56931792 Panel 35EAST - 62 Married Single In Service 1 yr Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 10JUL67 Comment   Cemetery

     JACK ROGER MC KEE

Birth 10AUG48 Rank E5 Date of Event 30JUN68  P. of birth   Service Army  Place Phu Yen S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland  Unit 173rd Abn Bde, D Co, 4th Bn, 503rd Inf  Death Code Hostile, Died; Ground Casualty; Gun, Small Arms Fire  Hometown   service # 18836269   Panel 35EAST - 76 Married Single In Service 1 yr  Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 02APR67  Comment   Cemetery

3 Army Men Die In War
Three more Oregon servicemen have been killed in the Vietnam War the Defense Department reported Monday. All were from the Portland area and had been reported missing in action earlier said the Army.
They were 2nd Lt. Guy Greenfield, son of Mr and Mrs W.L.Greenfield, 26 SE 23rd Ave, and husband of Mrs. Valerie S. Greenfield, Lake Oswego; Spec.4 J.R.McKee, son of Wilford J. McKee, Portland, no street adress listed, and Spec. Robert L. Neher, son of Mr. Robert Templeton, Portland, no street address listed. Their deaths increased the number of Oregon servicemen killed in the war to 228 since 1961. There have been 29 killed this year. (The Oregonian, Portland OR, 13 Feb 1968)

    ARTHUR FLOYD ELLIOTT

Birth 12JUL48 Rank PVT Date of Death 30JAN68 P. of birth   Service Army Place Phu Yen S. Vietnam Town of Record Salem Unit 173rd Abn Bde D Co 4th Bn 503rd Inf Death Code Hostile, Died; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 19845226 Panel 35EAST - 69 Married Single In Service 2 yrs Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 01APR67 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

Birth 13JAN48 Rank PFC Date of Death 30JAN68 P. of birth   Service Army (Draft) Place Binh Dinh S. Vietnam Town of Record Roseburg Unit 1st Cav Div C Btry 7th Bn 13th Arty Death Code Hostile, Died; Other Explosive Devices Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 56933095 Panel 35EAST - 71 Married Married In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 13JAN68 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 05MAR48 Rank PFC Date of Death 30JAN68 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam S. Vietnam Town of Record Sutherlin Unit G CO 2ND BN 3RD MARS Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2326026 Panel 35EAST - 79 Married Single In Service 1 yr Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date 14JUN67 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 25APR48 Rank PFC Date of Death 31JAN68 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Nam S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit CO C 1/7TH MAR 1ST MAR DIV Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2394470 Panel 35EAST - 89 Married Married In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 17JAN68 Comment   Cemetery

Birth 22DEC42 Rank 2LT Date of Death 31JAN68 P. of birth Portland   Service Army (Reserve) Place Long An S. Vietnam Town of Record Portland Unit 9th Inf Div B Co 2nd Bn 60th Inf Death Code Hostile, Died Missing; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Ground Casualty Hometown   service # O5338053 Panel 36EAST - 11 Married Married In Service 1 year Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 17SEP67 Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

Lt. Guy Greenfield Requiem Mass for Lt. Guy E. Greenfield, 25, who died in Vietnam 31 Jan (1968), will be Friday at 9:30 a.m. in St. Philip Neri Church. Interment will be in Willamette National Cemetery. Rosary will be Thursday in Zeller Chapel of the Roses. Lt. Greenfield was born in Portland 22 Dec 1942. He attended St. Philip Neri Grade School, Cleveland High and Portland State College before moving to Madras, where he was manager of the Beneficial Finance Co., until he was drafted into military service. He received his basic training a Ft. Ord, attended Officers Training School at Ft. Benning and was graduated February, 1967. He was stationed at Ft. Jackson before being sent to Vietnam. He was a member of the Elks Lodge in Madras. While in Company B., 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry, in Vietnam, Sgt.Greenfield assumed command of the company when it was stranded in combat without the commanding officer, according to an account in Infantry Magazine. Within a short time, he had contacted widely dispersed men, set up a perimeter, summoned artillery and set up patrols to retrieve the wounded. His action was credited with helping ward off a more effective attack by the Viet Cong. Survivors are his wife,Valerie of Lake Oswego; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William L. Greenfield, Portland; brother Kevin of Portland; and sisters, Mrs. Ann Tricker and Mary K. Greenfield, both of Portland. The family suggests rememberances be gifts to Dr. Isiah Jackson, Office of Public Health, U.S Health, U.S. Aid, San Francisco PO 9643 , for care of orphan of Da Nang Province Hospital. (The Oregonian, Portland OR, 22 Feb 1968)