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Dec 22, 2021 · Spc. 4 James T. Davis lost his life tracking down an enemy signal in Vietnam. by Mark D. Raab 12/22/2021. James T. “Tom” Davis was sent to Vietnam in May 1961 with a secretive intelligence unit that went into the field with equipment to pinpoint enemy radio transmitters. (Davis family via Mark Raab)
Charles McMahon (May 10, 1953 – April 29, 1975) [1] and Darwin Lee Judge (February 16, 1956 – April 29, 1975) [2] were the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two men, both U.S. Marines, were killed in a rocket attack one day before the Fall of Saigon. Charles McMahon, 11 days short of his 22nd ...
Jul 8, 2015 · 07/08/2015 12:01 AM EDT. On this day in 1959, Maj. Dale Ruis and Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand became the first Americans killed in the opening stages of the Vietnam War when Viet Cong guerrillas ...
Aug 16, 2021 · Richard Fitzgibbon Jr. was born on June 21, 1920 in Stoneham, Massachusetts. He was a veteran of World War II, serving with the US Navy. He subsequently left the service and joined the Air Force, becoming a technical sergeant. Not long after, he was sent to Vietnam with part of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), tasked with training ...
Nov 16, 2009 · Maj. Dale R. Buis and Master Sgt. Chester M. Ovnand become the first Americans killed in the American phase of the Vietnam War when guerrillas strike a Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG ...
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Description. Saigon: In all wars there must be a first death and a last death; and while they are no different from all the thousands that separate them, they somehow seem specially tragic. The first GI to die in the Vietnam war was Army Spec. 4 Tom Davis (left) of Livingston, Tenn., who was killed 12/22/61 near Duc Noa ...
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World War II. Vietnam War. Technical Sergeant Richard Bernard Fitzgibbon Jr., USAF (June 21, 1920 – June 8, 1956) was the first American to die in the Vietnam War. He was murdered by another American airman on June 8, 1956. Through the efforts of his sister Alice Fitzgibbon Rose DelRossi, a former Stoneham, Massachusetts, selectwoman ...
