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2/501 Reactivated - now
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JOHN NESSER
| Notes from John Nesser
I was with Alpha Company from late May 1969 (just after Hamburger Hill)
to about January 1970 when I transferred to the 159th Aviation Battalion
to be a door gunner.
You other Avengers may be interested to know that I wrote a book titled
"The Ghosts of Thua Thien" and had it published by McFarland and Co. in
2008. It won the Military Writers Society of America's 2008 Gold
Medal Award for Memoirs. If you or anyone is interested, the book
is available on Amazon.Com which has several book reviews. Other
bookstores can order the book as well. A good deal of the book is
my recollections of ground ops with Alpha Company. Some may recognize
themselves in the book though I used fictitious names at the direction
of my publisher. |
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A SALUTE TO LOWELL LOCKHART
| Michael Dorch was from Tampa Florida. He now resides in Alvin,
Texas. See his entry in the guestbook. Michael would like to give a
special salute to Lowell Lockhart from Whitwell Tennessee. If you would like to know about Mike's background with Alpha company go to this URL: http://home.att.net/~lzvietnam/fb173dd.htm |
CITATION REQUEST
| The 101st Abn Div is putting together a written history of awards
from WWII, Vietnam, etc., for the BSM and higher. They are looking for
all personal award citations that veterans and/or families have to
submit. I will send you a copy of the information request and who to
contact. The trooper in-charge is stationed at Ft. Campbell and is
feverously working on getting as many of the names and citations as
possible so it can be published for the official 101st historical
record. He's for real and I've dealt with him for the last year. Roger Barski 773-259-1923 http://nagteam.org/airborne Here is the citation request form: |
| Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO Ladies and Gentleman, We are building our History event from WWII to present and are including the following awards: Bronze Stars with Valor Silver Stars Purple Hearts Please provide any supporting documents that you might have of yourself or a family member. CW2 Niebuhr, Ryan P. ADAM/BAEC2 Systems Integrator 2BCT, 101 ABN DIV (AASLT) ryan.niebuhr@us.army.mil |
LEO "DOC" FLORY
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Robert Richard Malecki of Alpha Company 2/501 (Chicago, IL) was Doc's inspiration to write the book. He was KIA May 13, 1969 in on Firebase Airborne in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. |
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2/501st has been reactivated after 40 years. |
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On 16 October 2013 the 2nd Battalion of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment was reactivated at Fort Bragg, South Carolina. We are now part of 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division. |  |
| In November of 2015 a grpoup of Alpha Company members attended the ceremony at Fort Bragg. |
 Dave DeSoucy, Floyd Turnley and the - CO and 1SG of the new 2/501 82nd Airborne |
 Floyd Turnley and Dave David DeSoucy |
 Dave DeSoucy - Floyd Turnley - Ken Counts - Jim Schmidt |
TYLER ECKHEARDT
| We were blessed to have Tyler Eckhardt and his wife Jordan from Cedar Rapids, Iowa as guests at the 2018 Avenger reunion in Gettysburg, PA. Tyler is with 2/501 - 82nd Airborne. On 16 Oct 2013 the 2/501st, 101st Airborne was reactivated after 40 years to be a part of the 82nd Airborne. |
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