The Song Is "Home" By Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

Use Your Player's Controls To Play It

The Travelling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall was in Portland, OR on Memorial Day, 2006.  Click  HERE for photos of 604th members' names.

Wall Rubbings Courtesy of VVA Chapter 172, Cumberland, MD: VietnamWall.org

15 OCT 1945    -   Bessemer, AL   -    23 SEP 1968

16 DEC 1937    -   Booneville, NC   -    23 SEP 1968

25 JUN 1948    -   Independence, MO   -    23 SEP 1968


Pilot WO1 Gerald Alan Cahela, SSG Jack Sizemore, Sr. and Chief Engineer PFC John Michael White were killed in a helicopter crash on 23 Sep 1968, approximately four miles southeast of Camp Holloway, near Pleiku, RVN.

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For the official Army report
on the crash
Click Here

(courtesy of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Assn. )

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18 AUG 1935    -   El Paso, TX    -   20 OCT 1968

SSG Ignacio E. Rios was killed
by fratricide on 20 Oct 1968.
His murder was never solved ...
but some coward
must live with what he did.

26 NOV 1941    -   Archer, FL   -    4 NOV 1970


SP5 Johnell Witherspoon died on
4 Nov 1970 of non-hostile causes.
 

Charles 'Tex' Duke
No photo of Kit Mark is available.
If you have one, please email me.

On May 30, 1970, two of our civilian Dynalectron employees, Charles 'Tex' Duke and Kit Mark, went for a motorcycle ride to the north of Pleiku. They were celebrating Tex's last day in-country; he was to go home the next day. They never returned and are still missing. Opinions are starkly divided as to what happened to them. They are believed to have happened upon a rocket launch site and attacked by either VC or NVA. The result of the attack remains unknown. One side believes they were killed on the spot; the other believes they were taken prisoner. If the former, their bodies were never recovered. If the later, they were not repatriated after the war. May God bless them, whatever their fate.

For more information, Google either's name; you can read the arguements and decide for yourself.

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