Hq Co 1Bn/9Th Inf
DMZ Era Messages posted to this BBS:
| Entry: 5730 |
HQ CO 1BN/9TH INF |
JOHN PATTON wrote on September 9, 2009
Comments:
what was the name of the camp (compound ) where they brought Cayer and Reynolds back too? If i remember right i was there as they pulled them in with the jeep ! tell me if i'm wrong .it was a long time ago. I was just 17 at the time in 1968, i would like to know the name of the camp i was in . WE were up close / in person i could see Libby Bridge from our compound i think. (through glass) we were in support and i watch as they walked the 80 POWs across Libby (bridge of no return ). it was HISTORY amazing somthing to see ! i was known as sp/4 johnny patton #1 gunner/instructor on the 4.2 motar.
sgt. Lambert & Hudson made me the best gunner i could be,but of course at that time i thought they were just beeing S.O.B.s :)
| Entry: 766 |
HQ CO 1BN/9TH INF |
MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN wrote on July 6, 2005
Comments:
Served in the unit as the medical officer between about August 1968 to about October 1969. Was an Air Force medical officer assigned to the 1BN/9th INF for the tour.
Interested in contacting anyone I might have known during that period, above and below the Imjin.
| Entry: 71 |
HQ CO 1BN/9TH INF |
DAVID BENBOW wrote on June 27, 2000
Comments:
Would you believe I put the wrong web site address down a second time. I must be too busy with my law clients. The correct site is abmc.gov David Benbow
| Entry: 69 |
HQ CO 1BN/9TH INF |
DAVID BENBOW wrote on June 24, 2000
Comments:
Dadgumit, I typed in the wrong address for the American Battle Monuments Commission in my message to this DMZ thread. The correct web site is abmc.com I'm sorry. David Benbow Co C 3/23rd Infantry, 2nd Infantry Division Feb '68 to June '69.
| Entry: 68 |
HQ CO 1BN/9TH INF |
DAVID BENBOW wrote on June 24, 2000
Comments:
I remember when Cayer and Reynolds were ambushed in my company's area of the DMZ. I was not on the patrol that last saw them alive, but my platoon was. They were riding in the Z in a jeep. LT Creighton Hooker stepped out of the bushes and stopped the jeep and asked why they were there in the DMZ in an unescorted jeep and told them to get out of the Z immediately. Cayer and Reynolds turned around and only made it past the next curve before Hooker heard explosions and shots. By the time Hooker got there they were dead. The North Koreans left quickly, not even taking the American weapons or personal effects of the dead soldiers. Hooker must have scared them away. Michael Reynolds' mother located me just last month based on an American Legion Magazine article about the American Battle Monuments Commission adding DMZ dead to the Korean War data base at my request. She had added her son's information to the data base. You can see it by going to usambc.com Type in his name at the appropriate place.
Dedicated To - Arthur Donald DeLacy - 1st Lieutenant - USMCR - MIA POW - 10/07/1951 - Heartbreak Ridge