Scroll of
Honor
15th Field Artillery
Regiment
7/15th FA -
VIETNAM WAR
Close
up of THE
WALL in Washington, DC
Photo: Paul Hunter
SMAJ Coyle (right)
with LTC Simpson
at LZ Uplift in 1968
Photo: LTC Simpson
SMAJ
Coyle was killed in a December 1970
helicopter crash at the Mang Yang
Pass.
SMAJ
Coyle was serving his 2nd
tour of duty with the 7/15th
in the Vietnam War.
Three
other men from the 7/15th perished
that day with SMAJ Coyle:
LTC Penn, CWO Crayne, and WO Sellett
"I
gave my life for freedom --this I know:
for those who bade me fight had told me so."
W. N. EWER
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7th Battalion, 15th Field Artillery
ALLONS
Vietnam War
SCROLL
OF HONOR
DATE
OF DEATH
AGE
NAME,
RANK
LOCATION ON THE WALL
HOME
OF RECORD
MOS
PROVINCE OF DEATH
2/2/68
19
Timothy Lee White, SP4
Panel 37E, Row 2
Bloomington, IL
13A10
Binh Dinh
2/19/68
20
William Clayton Shumate, PVT
Panel 40E, Row 31
Photo
Decatur, GA
36K20
Binh Dinh
2/20/68
27
Nicolas
Ligammari, SP4
Panel 40E, Row 43
Jamestown, NY
36K20
Binh Dinh
3/1/68
37
Stephen Thomas
Kucas, FSGT
Panel 42E, Row 19
State College, PA
13Z50
Binh Duong
4/21/68
23
Hiawatha Hicks, SP4
Panel 51E, Row 20
Grand Rapids, MI
73C20
Binh Dinh
7/7/68
18
Russell Dean Wake, PFC
Panel 53W, Row 40
Springfield, MO
63A10
Binh Dinh
8/24/69
20
Gary Alan Ohman, 2LT
Panel 19W, Row 108
Minneapolis, MN
1193
Binh Dinh
9/21/69
20
Charles Hawkins Beare, PFC
Panel 18W, Row 118
Photo
Joiner, AR
82C10
Binh Dinh
11/10/69
18
Earl Thomas Pearson,
Jr., PFC
Panel 16W, Row 54
Photo
Maywood, IL
13A10
Pleiku
12/1/70
40
Laverne Darton Coyle, SMAJ
Panel 6W, Row 101
Photo
(on right side)
Franklinton, LA
00Z50
Binh Dinh
12/1/70
37
Kenneth Eugene Crayne, CWO
Panel 6W, Row 101
Omaha, NE
711AG
Binh Dinh
12/1/70
42
Raymond Bishop Penn, Jr.,
LTC
Panel 6W, Row 102
Photo
Pittsburgh, PA
1193
Binh Dinh
12/1/70
23
Stephen Charles Sellett, WO
Panel 6W, Row 102
Sterling, IL
100B
Binh Dinh
3/2/71
MIA
(20)
Deland Dwight Zubke, SSGT
Panel 4W, Row 17
Grassy Butte, ND
05C30
Kontum
5/9/71
21
Ronald Lee Doolittle, SP4
Panel 3W, Row 27
Photo
Saginaw, OR
13A10
Kontum
5/28/71
34
Robert
Lee Brown, SP5
Panel 3W, Row 57
Photo
Lowman,
NY
63C20
Pleiku
6/4/71
21
Rey F. Torres-Ramos, SP4
Panel 3W, Row 66
Hato Rey,
P.R.
94A10
Pleiku
6/13/71
24
Richard Joseph Gray, 1LT
Panel 3W, Row 74
Remembrance
Salem, MA
1193
Pleiku
8/1/71
31
Tommy Mike McCleer, SFC
Panel 3W, Row 120
Carpentersville, IL
13B40
Binh Dinh
Also, approximately 200 men from the 7th Battalion,
15th Field Artillery were
wounded in action (WIA)
during the Vietnam War.
If you served with the men listed above, or knew them, you are encouraged to
leave a remembrance at The Virtual
Wall. This is the internet version of THE WALL in Washington, DC. Also,
please contact Dan Gillotti the 15th
Historian if you have a photo of one of the men listed above.
Remembrance
of 1LT Richard Joseph Gray
The
following poem was presented by
soldier-poet Nolan
Putman at the 2001
15th Reunion at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
during the memorial service.
Written in August
of 2000
Nolan
Putman
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First
name, line 74, panel 3 West under an empty sky |
MEMORY
By
Nolan Putman
The memories are recalled time and time again
About the friendship that was formed way back then
A friendship created amid the mud and dirt
When recalled makes my mind wonder and heart hurt
There is a spot in the heart for him
But after all these years the features of his face have grown dim
The sound of his voice is forever gone
Such a reality leaves me feeling empty and alone
First name, line 74, panel 3 West under an empty
sky
I approach it, I touch it and I cry
Then I realize what is important to me
It is not the face, the voice or even the name - it is the memory
That special friendship was between Richard and me
A good example of the bonds formed in 7th of 15th Artillery
LINKS
Tom
Hazzard
"IN MEMORY"
Posted 5/18/03
2LT
Harold B. Durham, Jr. -
6/15th Medal of Honor
Vietnam Veterans Memorials
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Vietnam Women's Memorial
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"The Virtual Wall"
An internet version of THE WALL
in Washington, D.C.
with a searchable name index