Locator

Send your Locator and Reunion notices to Locator, The VVA Veteran, 8719 Colesville Road, Suite 100, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Or email veteranlocator@vva.org or mkeating@vva.org

The Locator and Reunion services are provided without charge.

Looking for John Dahl, who was in a Track & Wheel Vehicle Repair course at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Dec. 65-Mar. 66. Later he served near Qui Nhon, possibly in the 5^th Maint. Bn. Contact: Case Nelson, casenelson1@volcano.net

Searching for anyone who knew John P. Noble in Germany with the 5^th Bn., 577 Arty. before going to Vietnam. Last-known residence was in Astoria, Queens, N.Y. Contact: Terry Engelhardt, 920-731-8040; TEngelhardt@new.rr.com

Vietnam veteran writer would like to hear from Terry Young and Daniel Wardzala, Bravo and Charlie Troop Blues Vietnam. Please send email address with response. Contact: Mike Burns, P.O. Box 187, Clifton, TX 76634.

Searching for anyone from Whiskey 1/12 and H&S 2/26 (primary B/C Camp Carroll, secondary Khe Sanh) who recalls Docs L.A. Grassi, J.M. Burke III, and Carruthers (all HM-3). Also Cpl. Wood (High Point, N.C.), Harold Thompson (Richmond, Va.), Joe June (Liberty City, Fla.), Billy Joe Ahaitty (Kiowa from Walters, Okla.), and Lt. Saunders (Ohio). Contact: Earl R. Johnson, 1069354, Buckingham Correctional Center, P.O. Box 430, Dillwyn, VA 23936-0430.

The family of Donald Godzala is looking for anyone who served with him during 1967-69. His MOS was Motor Vehicle Operator with Co. C, 3^rd Eng. Bn., 3^rd Marine Div. He was in Operation Dawson River, Dewey Canyon, and Scotland II. He was around Da Nang and the Rock Pile. The VA is looking for confirmation that he spent a lot of time in the sun and might have had sunburns. Sunglasses were not issued or allowed, which probably caused his death due to ocular melanoma (eye cancer.) Contact: cwalytka@hotmail.com or cjgodzala@hotmail.com 

Searching for Dr. Edwin L. Downing. I served with him in 1966 at Cu Chi with the 1^st Bn., 5^th Inf., 25^th Inf. Div. Contact: Allan Bird, 610-495-5406; allanbirdsr@aol.com

Looking for anyone who served with me in Delta Co., 725^th Maint. Bn., 25^th Inf. Div. in Dau Tieng, Feb. 1968-69, especially anyone on the M-88. Contact: Joe Colussi, eklojoe@aol.com

Searching for anyone who fought along Hwy. 13 between Phu Loi and Di An, Jan. 1968-69. I drove an ammo deuce and a half hauling rockets and more. I need witnesses to verify that ammo runs shredded nerves in trying to avoid ambushes, mines, snipers, and other pitfalls. You made my way safer and I am forever grateful. I’d love to hear from you. Contact: Nathan C. Sollish, #14470340, SRCI, 777 Stanton Blvd., Ontario, OR 97914.

Looking for Robert E. McEntire, 11^th Armored Cav. Reg., Phuoc Vinh, 1968-69. Sgt. McIntire helped me train the Self Defense Popular Forces in Phu Giao Dist., Binh Duong Province. I was Dep. Chief of Phu Giao Dist. McIntire was from Killeen and Dallas, Tex. Last address, Corpus Christi. Contact: Can Nguyen, 858-213-5198; dcnpeternguyen@yahoo.com or James Anderson, 858-560-5860; jausps23@yahoo.com

Searching for anyone who served in 38^th Tac Airlift, C130, 1968. Contact: Donnie Pruitt, lpruitt@centurylink.net

Looking for pen pals. I am a veteran of the Marines in the 1970s. I am incarcerated with no family or outside friends. Contact: David Ferris, BB5777, SVSP, A3-111LOW, P.O. Box 1050, Soledad, CA 93960-1050.

Searching for anyone who can relate to PTSD. I am a Gulf War veteran, currently incarcerated on driving charges, to be released soon to NYC area. All letters answered. Contact: Robert Messina, #d81032, Columbia C.I., 216-SE Corrections Way, Lake City, FL 32025.

Looking for anyone who served with my father, CW2 Robert L. Roberts, on any of his three combat tours. He was a door gunner, 1962-64, with UTT Helo Co. (utility tactical). They were the first armed escorts in-country for the H-21 lift ships. He returned to Vietnam as a pilot, 1967-68 with the 128^th. He lost photos and other mementos in a fire. Contact: David E. Roberts, 396873, P.O. Box 310, VSP, Valdosta, GA 31603-0310. 

Looking for a friend I knew from Vietnam, Henry Linsey. The last time I saw him we put him on a medevac. We were in C Co., 1/12, 1^st Cav., 1971. He may be in Atlanta. His whole squad is waiting to hear from him. We are on a mission to find everyone. Contact: Stephen Schroeder, fishingtheark@yahoo.com 

Looking for members of the “Fighting Deuce,” 272^nd MP Co., 1965-70. It was a small company that ran convoy gun jeeps and POW camps throughout Vietnam under the 1FFV patch, usually attached to the 101^st Airborne and the 1^st Cav. Look in Reunion section for our info. Contact: Ron Raccioppi, 828-508-2724; vietnam272nd@gmail.com 

Searching for Marines who were in the Marine barracks in Yokuska, Japan, 1969-71. Contact: Henry Payne, 036113, Tomoka C.I., 3950 Tiger Bay Rd., Daytona Beach, FL 32124.

Looking for a veteran my late wife and I met at the Country Inn, New Orleans, July 18-19, 2013. He and his family were from Virginia. Contact: Campbell Knox, pepent@xtra.co.nz 

Searching for anyone who served in 5^th Howitzer Bn., 27^th Art. Btry. B, 1-5mm towed, out of Fort Lewis, 1965-66. Contact: Gary Wamsley, 210-563-2629; margar95@twc.com

Looking for anyone who witnessed a hospital corpsman who carried a live grenade extracted from the leg of a wounded Marine through triage and threw it overboard on U.S.S. Repose, between Nov. 1967 and Oct. 1968. Contact: Kurt Turner, kturner13@windstream.net

My wife’s brother, Bill Gray, of Fulton, N.Y., was killed in Vietnam, 1968 or ’69. We would like to know someone who served with him. Contact: Paul Dunleavy, pgddmd@hotmail.com

Searching for Chuck Whitney, an Army medic in Vietnam in the sixties. Contact: Ralph Gilbert, 218-255-5095. 

Looking for Waddell, Harrison, Laliberte, Pvt. Knapp, Scoggins, 1^st Sgt. Cotton, Sgt. Weldon, Capt. Gessner, and Sgt. Lawrence. I was in supply with the 809^th Eng. Bn. in Phanom Sarakam. I am trying to get a copy of the group picture that I sent home to my family. Contact: Billy Carroll, 1129 E. Cuthbert Blvd, #S2, Haddon, NJ 08108.

Searching for any office mates from 1^st Sig. Brig., Long Binh to detachment level in Tan Son Nhut, 1967-69. I was W-5, retired as same 20 years later. Contact: Linsley M. Hamilton, 1150 W. Capitol Drive, #84, San Pedro, CA 90732.

Looking for SSG Ronald Parks or Gwinn Bird from A Co., 1/505, 82^nd Abn., 1969. Contact: Ron Lane, 626-244-5524.

Searching for Sgt. John Frank Marchand (could be Marsson). Stationed in Pyeongtaek, So. Korea (K-55), Camp Humphrey K-6, 1965-66. He was born June 1941, and worked in the motor pool. Contact: Katie Kraus, 717-870-7801; katieskraus@yahoo.com

I am a VVA and VSO member working with a veteran whose records are lost. Donald Lawrence was with the 101^st, D Co., 2^nd Bn., 2^nd Bde., 502 Div. at LZ Sally, Nov. 1968-69. He has AO issues and needs to prove he was in Vietnam. Contact: Ernest Ledtje, xpostlwkr@hotmail.com

In December of 1966 or January of 1967 in Da Nang, at an in-country R&R for the Navy Support Activity (NSA) Trans. teams, a man was run over by a truck and died. The accident happened on the way to Red Beach. I am trying to find his name. Contact: Jose Cordova, 575-693-9971.

Seeking correspondence with any veteran military nurses who served in-country. I had frequent contact in 1966-67 with 56^th Trans. Co. (DS), a recovery unit. Too little is known about your heroic duty. Contact: William Maddox, 152221, Crossroads Correctional Facility, 115 E. Pence Road, 6D158, Cameron, MO 64429.

Searching for anyone with information about Randy Nordstron, Bob Gaden, Don Deskin, Lt. Leghand, Ron Distehmeir, Will Williams, Ballard, Hampton, and Doc Gore. I have a photo of them from Co. A 3/8 Div., 4^th Div. I’d like to get copies to them. Contact: Jim Keeling, 1502 W. Front St., Tyler, TX 75702; 903-570-9934.

Looking for Sgt. Pele, call sign “Buffalo.” I was squad leader in A Co., 1/8, May 1967-Jan. 1968. Any information is welcome. Contact: Michael Napurano, mnapurano@gmail.com

Looking for buddies from Ft. Knox, Ft. Carson, and Ft. Bliss, 1973-75. Contact: Andrew Meli, 586-212-8296; andrew.melisr72@gmail.com

Searching for members of 383^rd Qm. Det., 1965. Contact: John Richardson, jer1945jer@gmail.com

Looking for anyone who served with Spec.5 Lester L. Johnson, 548^th Maint. Co., 277^th S&S Bn., 29^th GS Group, Army SPT Cmd., Saigon, 1^st Cmd., USARV base camp, Tay Ninh City, near Nui Ba Dinh Mt. inside Cambodia, Jan. 1969-70. Contact: Lester L. Johnson, 615-613-2604; lstrjhnsn@yahoo.com

Searching for anyone who served with Stephen W. Hansell from Guilford, Ind., a heavy equipment operator with an engineering group in Vung Tau. Steve passed away suddenly in 2010. Contact: Eugene Lane, 300 Stony Point Rd., spc 436, Petaluma, CA 94952; 707-347-6800; eugenelane@gmx.com

Looking for anyone from 523^rd Eng. Co. Pc., 1969-70, especially George Fleming from Powhatan, Va., Willoughby from Chicago, and Randy, a welder from Kentucky or Tennessee, to whom I owe a very big apology. Contact: Fritz Walters, waltersjf1947@gmail.com

Writer looking for anyone who had an experience of Divine Intervention in Vietnam who saved a life. Please send a brief account. Contact: Mike Burns, P.O. Box 187, Clifton, TX 76634

Searching for anyone with information about the 1969 Rolling Thunder recon insertion team, which was attacked by forty NVA south of Hanoi. A seven-member team from 1^st Plt. Kilo, ¾ Third Marine Div. was flown in by a CH53. We covered the team while they ran to the helicopter. The team leader was shot in the leg and another member was shot in his shoulder and upper arm. Contact: Jeff Campbell, 2193 West Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44102; 216-939-9484; scjc123@att.net

Looking for anyone who was in the 178^th Maint. Co., An Khe, April 1967-68. Contact: Mike Gaskin, 423-605-7156; MDG8705@gmail.com

Looking for Mark Wood, born Feb. 19, 1950. Contact: Peggy Sanders sanders.pj@att.net

Searching for anyone who saw me fall from a C130, Nov. 24, 1969, and land with no parachute. Looking especially for Kasakowski. I was stationed at Ft. Bragg and was in Co. B, 82^nd Sig. Bn., 82^nd Airb. Div. Contact: Michael Barker, 210-445-4956; josiebarker1@gmail.com

Trying to find Eugene Perry, a Simon Gratz High School graduate. He is a friend I recruited in Philadelphia. He lost a leg in Vietnam. Contact: Alvin R. Shealey, 301-599-1080; superspade37@verizon.net

Looking for people who would like to attend a reunion of White Star Mobile Training Team (WSMTT)/MAAG Laos. Date and place have not been determined. Contact: Herb Siegel, 352-751-2385; lrchseigel@gmail.com

Searching for anyone in my HQ unit, 2-11, 1^st Mar. Div., An Hoa, 1970. Looking for stories about the Duc Duc village. I was battalion interpreter. Contact: Tim Slayton, tslayton32@gmail.com

Seeking a Montagnard/Hmong named “Clint” who supported U.S. forces in Laos in the spring and summer of 1962 or summer of 1963. He was senior civilian or military. We were ambushed. Much of my memory of the incident is gone. Contact: Murrell (“Hank” or Mac”) McLeod, 521 W. Longmeadow Rd., Greenville, NC 27858; 252-531-3672; murrellmcleod@aol.com

Looking for Ronald Parker, Navy who enlisted around 1966, from Shreveport, La., born 1945 or ’46. He was a graduate of Fair Park H.S. and a professional musician and singer in the group Avantis. Contact: Greg Burns, greg.p.burns@gmail.com

Palomares “Broken Arrow” responders, Spain, 1966. Recent changes of VA dosage reconstruction guidelines could affect your status for radiation risk service. See New York Times, June 20, 2016. If you (U.S.A.F., U.S. Navy, other entities) worked this contaminated and dangerous site, please contact me. Contact: Mike Lieb, 413-567-7763; msgtmikel@yahoo.com