Drafted from Michigan and sent deep into enemy territory, Specialist Four Reynaldo Arenas served as a combat engineer with a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol. He was killed by hostile small arms fire in Binh Duong Province on December 31, 1968, just 20.
At Suối Tre in March 1967, American artillery and infantry stopped a major enemy offensive. One of the fallen was SP4 Herman E. Anders Jr., remembered today on his birthday.
A Detroit-born infantry NCO with the 1st Cavalry Division, Staff Sergeant Terrence L. Harris served in Vietnam until his death on December 24, 1970. His story reflects the constant danger and quiet sacrifices of war.
In December 1972, during Operation Linebacker II, Major Thomas Waring Bennett, Jr., a decorated B-52 bomber pilot, flew into the most dangerous airspace of the Vietnam War and did not return, giving his life in the war’s final days.
Drafted at 18, Specialist Four Michael Patrick Anderson of Queens, New York, was killed in action in Vietnam at just 19 years old while serving as an infantryman with the 4th Infantry Division.
Chinook pilot MAJ Taylor D. Johnson was killed on January 26, 1966, while flying a resupply mission during Operation Masher in Vietnam.
