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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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Santa Cruz County's first war casualty of the Vietnam War period was not from Santa Cruz County, was not a war casualty, nor did his death occur in Vietnam, yet Watsonville designated him as one of its own. On March 23, 1965, the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian declared "Watsonville Youth Drowns in Germany."
Herbert R. Howell, one of the ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Lon W. Howell, was born in Clovis, New Mexico, July 2, 1946. Later the Howell family, that would grow to include seven boys and three girls, moved to the Pajaro Valley. Herbert was raised in a rural residence on Strawberry Canyon Road located between Watsonville and Moss Landing, California. While Watsonville was his urban center, his education took place at Elkhorn Elementary School and Salinas High School in Monterey County.
With his parent's permission Herbert left high school in the early part of 1963 at age seventeen to enlist in the US Army. After Private Howell completed his basic and advanced individual training in November, he was assigned to Company D of the 703rd Maintenance Battalion of the 7th Army in Europe. While serving at an undefined unit and location in Germany, Private Herbert R Howell was accidentally drowned in the Main River on March 21, 1965.
His body was returned to California and following a funeral service in Pacific Grove on April 1, 1965, was buried with full military honors in the Mission Memorial Park in Seaside California.
(WRP March 23, 1965, WRP March 30, 1965 2:3)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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"We are sitting in the Chu River that goes through Da Nang right now," Daryl Keen wrote home from Vietnam on July 14, 1965. "We are going to load supplies and take them to a base down the coast." This would be the last that his fiancée and family would hear from him as he prepared to move down the river to supply a US Marine detachment.
Daryl La Verne Keen was born on June 8, 1944, to Kermit and Helen Keen. Daryl, along with his brothers, Don, Eugene, Jerold and James, and his sister, Sandra, grew up in the family home on Laurel Street in Santa Cruz. He was described as "a quiet, shy, good-looking blonde young man with bright blue eyes that saw a future as an architect or construction engineer."
At Santa Cruz High School Keen excelled academically and was admitted to the Hi Tow Tong boy's honor society. In addition to being a surfer and strong swimmer he was also a member of the school's undefeated wrestling team. Following his graduation from high school in June 1962, he enrolled in Cabrillo College to continue his technical studies.
In the latter part of 1962 Daryl Keen enlisted in the US Navy and after completing boot camp in San Diego, was trained as a quartermaster. In 1963, he and Susan Riep, a local Santa Cruz girl, announced their plans to marry following his discharge in June 1966.
Quartermaster Third Class Keen was sent to Da Nang where he was assigned to Assault Craft Squadron 1, Division 12. His vessel, the USS LCU 1493 based in Da Nang, supplied ammunition to US Marine units fighting in the area. While serving in Vietnam, Keen wrote home to share his impressions of the conditions he experienced.
“It is hard keeping the writing paper clean. If I take a shower, I am covered with sweat before I dry off. I guess you will have to settle for a grubby letter. The temperature must be a least 110 degrees in the middle of the day...We got a surprise and a let-down this afternoon…It looks like we won't be relieved and sent back to the states like we were supposed to be. I can say for certain we will be over here at least until September.”
Daryl also described the deep weariness of marines leaving after months of battling the Viet Cong, "they only sent the marines home who were just too worn out to fight any more."
Appreciating the problem of over-taxed sailors and marines, Daryl volunteered to extend his service time in Vietnam by an additional year to help relieve manpower shortages.
Daryl Keen was drowned on July 16, 1965, while moving ammo down a river in Quang Tin province of South Vietnam to the US Marine's Chou Lie base camp. His body was recovered and returned to Santa Cruz. Father Donald E. Strano, a close family friend, conducted a memorial service for Daryl; his remains were buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno.
(USDVA; VVMW; VVVW; SCSn July 18, 1965 Mobile Riverine Forces Association-Vietnam, Assault Squadron #1, ACD 12, www.mrfa.org/Individual.Units.htm [16 September 2008])
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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Harold was a corpsman who watched out for his marines during the attack on Da Nang.
Harold Alvin Bird was born to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice A. Bird on August 5, 1943, in Clymer, New York. He and his brothers, Maurice Jr., Eugene and John, joined their parents in the family move to Lompoc, California; however, his sister Nancy remained in New York. Harold completed the first two years of high school at Lompoc in Santa Barbara County. After the family resettled in Boulder Creek in 1960, he enrolled in San Lorenzo Valley High School and graduated with honors in 1962.
Harold Bird enlisted in the local US Naval Reserve Surface Division and went on active duty in 1962. After completing training at the US Naval Training Center in San Diego, he was sent to a hospitalman school to become a navy hospitalman or marine corpsman. Bird, who considered making the navy his career, was promoted to hospital corpsman third class and sent to Camp Pendleton for field training. After graduation he was sent to Vietnam.
Harold arrived in Vietnam on August 5, 1965 and was assigned to Charlie Company of the 1st Regiment, 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Division. He had only been in Vietnam five weeks when Viet Cong guerillas attacked the Da Nang air base that his unit was guarding. In a predawn hand-to-hand assault on September 18, 1965, Hospitalman Third Class Harold Alvin Bird was shot and killed while attending to wounded marines.
His body was recovered and returned to California where he was buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery at San Carlos.
(USDVA; VNMW; SCSn September 21, 1965 1:1, September 26, 1965 10:5)
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Harold A. Bird (1965/09/18)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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A fellow soldier, Fred Owens, tells this story of Vincent's final battle, "Company Commander Forrest said, 'Who you got KIA?' I said, 'Locatelli.' Forrest said, 'Shit.' Locatelli was the youngest guy in the company."
Vincent Locatelli was born in Italy on March 27, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Adolpho Locatelli. In addition to Vincent, the Locatelli family included sons Salvatore, Adolph, John, Joseph and Mario and daughter Angela. In 1950 the family moved to Santa Cruz, California and settled into a home on Younglove Street. Vincent attended local grammar schools and later studied at Santa Cruz High School. Upon completion of his education, he found employment at the Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company, where he worked until 1963.
Vincent Locatelli was drafted into the US Army during the fall of 1963. After basic training, he was sent to Fort Carson, Colorado, for advanced training. In the early part of August 1965, he was assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion of the 5th Cavalry Regiment in the 1st Cavalry Airmobile. After a brief orientation program at Fort Benning, Georgia, his unit left for Southeast Asia on September 20, 1965.
Upon their arrival in Vietnam, the 1st Cavalry was sent to the Central Highland sector to prevent incursion by the Viet Cong and Viet regular units. Between September and November, Locatelli's unit was engaged in several combat encounters with the enemy, but none of the magnitude of the combat in the La Drang Valley.
On November 16, 1965, the 5th Regiment moved into the La Drang Valley in what was to become the first major US engagement of the Vietnam War. Along the route, the 550-yard column was brought to a halt and company commanders were ordered forward for consultation. During this period, the enemy ambushed the column in several locations. The fighting took place in three- to five-foot elephant grass that prevented either side from seeing the other and during the wild shooting melee, friendly fire casualties frequently occurred.
In the A Company sector, "Charley" as VC soldiers were dubbed, hurled grenades and on November 17, a grenade exploded near Private Vincent Locatelli taking his life. Vincent Locatelli's remains were returned to Santa Cruz and following a funeral service at Holy Cross Church, were entombed in the Holy Cross Mausoleum.
(VNMW; U of Tennessee, Fred Owens Part 1, Oral History Project https://my.tennessee.edu/portal/page?_pageid=91,150490&_ dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL, [16 September 2008]; SCSn November 19, 1965 1:7, November 28, 1956 14:7; Cem Survey)
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Vincent Locatelli (1965/11/17)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Remembering Our Own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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When Steven boarded a US Air Force C123, little did he realize that he would be involved in one of the worst air disasters in the war.
Steven Mark Pashman, the second son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Pashman, was born in Topeka, Kansas, on September 25, 1944. He and his two brothers, John and David, attended local Topeka schools until 1960 when the family moved to Santa Cruz, where their father had acquired the Villa Del Mar Motel. The Pashman family moved into a residence on the motel grounds, and Stephen entered Santa Cruz High School.
After graduating from high school in June 1962, Steven enrolled in Cabrillo College. Later he obtained employment at the California Tube Lab in Santa Cruz. Pashman was an avid sports enthusiast and soon became president of the Santa Cruz Sports Club.
Steven Pashman entered the US Army in the fall of 1965 and was sent to a training facility. After completing basic and advanced individual training in late 1965, he was assigned to the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division serving in Vietnam. Pashman arrived in the central highland area of Vietnam on December 13, 1965, with transportation to his unit to be provided by plane.
On the morning of January 25, 1966, Private First Class Steven Mark Pashman and forty-one other troopers of the 7th Cavalry boarded a Fairchild Provider aircraft to be transported to a combat zone in the highlands. The lumbering C123 troop transport had just taken off from the An Khe staging area of the US 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division 250 miles north east of Saigon on the morning of January 25, 1966, when problems were encountered. A low 300-foot cloud cover had hidden a looming mountain in their path and before the pilot could maneuver the craft to avoid it the plane smashed into the hillside. The sound caused by the crash of the explosion shattered the early morning silence. The name Steven Pashman and the names of the other troopers aboard would be etched into the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
The remains of Private Steven M. Pashman were recovered and returned to Santa Cruz where a memorial mass was conducted at Holy Cross Church. Steven's remains were sent to Topeka, Kansas and interred in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
(VNMW; SCSn January 25, 1966 1:2, January 27, 1966 1:4, February 4, 1966)
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Steven M. Pashman (1966/01/25)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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Mark Lane Corrie was born on January 5, 1948, in Los Angeles County, California; however, information regarding his family and pre-military life has not been located.
The name Mark Corrie Fraser is listed among the Vietnam War casualties of Kern County, California, with a corresponding reference to Aptos suggesting a possible connection.
Mark Corrie was apparently living in Aptos, California, when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in the late spring or summer of 1965. Because he was seventeen at the time of his enlistment, parental permission would have been required for him to enter the US Marine Corps. His age would also suggest that he might have left high school without finishing his senior year. Mark Corrie would have been sent to Camp Pendleton, California, to begin the twelve-week boot camp course that was the first phase of his training to become a marine. After a ten-day leave, likely at his home, Mark returned to Camp Pendleton to undergo the phase II, fifty-two-day school-of-infantry training.
At the completion of his training period, about March 1966, he was sent to Vietnam and assigned as a mortarman within an unidentified regiment of the 3rd Marine Division.
On June 7, 1966, Private First Class Mark Lane Corrie was a passenger in a vehicle involved in a non-hostile accident in the province of Thua Thien, Vietnam. He was killed in the crash and his body was returned to California where it was interred in the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno California.
(CBR; VVMW; USDVA; Ancestry.Com, Kern County War Memorial; http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.Military.wwii.memorials/360/mb.ashx, [16 September 2008])
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Mark L. Corrie (1966/06/07)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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1960s
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Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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"You will remain in the door of our minds till we meet again on the other side," wrote former marine Randy Kendall about Buddy.
Leo Buddy Buckholdt was born on January 28, 1946, in Oklahoma to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Buckholdt. The Buckholdt family, consisting of Buddy and his brothers Rodney, Bruce, Troy and Ricky and sister Bonnie, later moved to Livermore, California. In the early 1960s the Buckholdt family settled in Santa Cruz and Buddy enrolled in Santa Cruz High School.
In December 1964, following his high school graduation, Leo Buddy Buckholdt enlisted in the US Marine Corps and was sent to Camp Pendleton, California, for his basic training. After completing school-of-infantry training, he was assigned as a helicopter door gunner in VOM Squadron 2 of MAG 16 and he departed for Vietnam.
Upon his arrival in Vietnam Buckholdt was immediately introduced to combat activity. During the month of March 1966, he was involved in a firefight that earned him a recommendation for the Naval Commendation Medal with combat distinguishing device, the Air Medal, First Award and the Air Medal with Gold Star.
Buckholdt's unit was later operating out of Chu Lai, Vietnam, when it was called upon to support marines fighting a battalion of North Vietnamese Army Regulars. During the early hours of June 16, 1966, the eighteen men of the 1st Platoon of C Company of the 1st Recon Marines, who had been placed on Hill 488 (Nui Vu), were attacked by the communist troops of the NVA.
“The platoon had received casualties during the initial assault and sent out a call for Medical Evacuation choppers from Ky Ha.
At 0300, four UH-34D's from HMM-363 escorted by 2 UH-1E's from VMO-6 and 2 A-4's departed from Chu Lai to attempt to retract the team. Enemy fire was so intense in the zone that the flight had to wave off. One of the H-34s took seven hits from an automatic weapon.
One UH-1E from VMO-2 was also hit and forced down at BT 195222. The gunner, Private First Class Leo B. Buck- holdt, was killed by hostile fire.”
Buckholdt's body was removed from the door in the chopper and returned to his home in Santa Cruz. Following a memorial service, Private First Class Leo Buddy Buckholdt was interred in the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno.
(USDVA; VVMW; VVVVW, SCSn June 20. 1968 1:1; USMC Combat Helicopter Association, 660616 VMO-2 Vietnam, http:// www.popasmoke.com/kia/incidents.php?incident_id=48&conflict_ id=24, [16 September 2008])
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Leo B. Buckholdt (1966/06/16)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Remembering Our Own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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As William Tiffin lay dying, the fate of his son Ray remained unknown.
Rainford "Ray" Tiffin was born on March 4, 1938, in San Francisco, California, to William and Alice Tiffin. In addition to Ray, the Tiffin family included an older son, William. Ray grew up in a home on Anderson Street in Santa Cruz, attended a nearby elementary and junior high school and in 1952, entered Santa Cruz High School. In addition to his studies and student activities, he worked at a local Chevron service station. Upon graduation from high school Tiffin began a two-year program at Monterey Peninsula College.
In 1961 Rainford Tiffin was accepted into the US Air Force air cadet program and was sent to Webb Air Force Base in Big Springs, Texas, where he began pilot training. After graduating, he was awarded his wings and commissioned a second lieutenant.
While stationed at Luke AFB in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1962, Ray married Judith Woodley. Following additional training, he was assigned to the US airbase at Itazuki Japan, and began ferrying jets from the US to the Far East. Judith joined him and it was at this location that their two sons were born.
In 1965, as a member of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Tiffin was placed on temporary duty at the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base. Korat, located approximately 157 miles northeast of Bangkok, became his home for the next year. During that period, his squadron flew strikes against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong installations.
While flying a strike on the La Banh POL storage site, ten miles north of Cho Ngoc, Yen Bai, in North Vietnam, on July 21, 1966, Captain Rainford Tiffin's plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Other planes accompanying him on the mission reported that they did not observe an ejection from his plane before it crashed near the village of Cam Nhan. Rainford Tiffin was initially classified as MIA/POW and later promoted to the rank of Major.
With the absence of his body or prisoner of war status by the North Vietnamese, Tiffin was re-classified as killed in action in 1973. His remains have never been recovered.
(CBR; VVMW; Polk's Santa Cruz Directory 1957, 1956 Santa Cruz HS, Cardinal Yearbook, Ejection History.org.uk The Year 1966; Personal remembrances of Judith Tiffin Alpers, May 5, 2009 (Tiffin's widow); SCSn December 31, 1971; http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/PROJECT/YEAR_Pages/1966jul-sep.htm, [16 September 2008] WIKI, Royal Thai Air Base;)
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Rainford Tiffin (1966/07/21)
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Veterans
Wars-Vietnam War
Tiffin, Rainford
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Nelson, Robert L.
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Remembering Our Own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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A gray metal coffin containing the remains of an unclaimed GI drew national attention to the plight of a Pajaro Valley orphan.
Richard Frederick Campos was born at the Amador County railroad siding of Carbondale, California, on September 15, 1940, to Neva Campos, an unwed seventeen year old. His father, Albert Salazar, had deserted her and never reappeared. In 1942, while she lay dying of tuberculosis in a public hospital, Neva made arrangements for Richard to live with her sister Maria in San Francisco. He never saw his mother again. His aunt cared for him until 1947 when she also died, leaving the eight-year-old a ward of the court. In 1948 a foster home was found for Campos in San Leandro, California; however, after four years of failing health, his foster mother had to give him up.
Catholic Social Service heard of the orphan's plight and found a home for Richard in their Salesian Order St. Francis School in Watsonville. In a newspaper article appearing in the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian on December 22, 1966, Father Pratte recalled Campos, who lived at the school for five years. The priest described him as a good-looking boy with wavy hair and a pleasing smile who adapted well to the school and made many friends. Although he was scholastically described as an average student, he excelled in competition and played on the school's championship eighth grade basketball team. Richard also had the distinction of winning the Watsonville city marble championship.
When he reached his seventeenth birthday, Campos and his best friend, Paul Rivera, left the school for San Francisco. Lacking the necessary funds for housing, they voluntarily housed themselves in a detention center where they were given three meals and a cot each day. He only remained in San Francisco a brief period before entering the armed forces.
In 1958 Richard Campos enlisted in the US Army and after completing basic and advanced training, was assigned to an infantry regiment in Korea. Campos apparently found a home in the army and by 1965 was serving as a sergeant in Company C, 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.
In September 1966 Campos' division was sent to Vietnam and assigned to the central highland area in the province of Pleiku. While on a search and destroy patrol on December 6, 1966, a Viet Cong sniper's bullet snuffed out his life. His body was recovered and returned to Oakland to be claimed by a relative and released for burial. No relative could be found to claim the body of Richard Campos and it sat unclaimed in an Army warehouse.
Newspapers began publishing stories of the army's search for a relative to sign the necessary approval to bury Campos. St. Francis School immediately requested permission to bring his body to Watsonville for burial in the Valley Catholic Cemetery, but their request was withheld. When the National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars heard of the situation, his organization began applying pressure on the army to have Campos buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
James Campos, an uncle who Richard had not seen for fifteen years, was finally located. He claimed Richard's remains and made arrangements for his burial.
On December 31, 1966, people began arriving early at the Army's Chapel of Our Lady at the San Francisco Presidio for Richard Campos' funeral. The 200 available seats were quickly occupied, standing room only areas were filled, and the remaining attendees congregated outside to listen to the funeral mass. After the funeral, the cortege containing the remains of Richard Campos made its way along the ten-mile route to Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, where he was laid to rest.
After hearing the story of Richard Campos, Barbara Dane, a folksinger and peace activist, wrote the "Ballad of Richard Campos," an ironic ending for this professional soldier.
(VVVW; VVMW; USDVA; WRP December 22, 1966 1:1, December 30, 1966 1:7; SCSn January 1, 1967 31:4; Philadelphia Inquirer December 23, 1966 Barbara Dane, Songs of Protest, The Vietnam Songbook, http://www.barbaradane.net/billboard3403.html, [16 September 2008])
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Richard F. Campos (1966/12/06)
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Wars-Vietnam War
Campos, Richard
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
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Nelson, Robert L. Remembering Our Own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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Christmas Eve 1966 was a sad occasion in the Harold Johnson household; they had just buried their son Ronald.
Ronald Joe Johnson was born in Kings County, California, on September 24, 1947, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Johnson. Ronald's family included brothers Douglas, Gary and Mark and sisters Victoria and Jill. Ronald was raised in Soquel, California, attended local schools and was active in little league baseball. He and his teammates prided themselves in having won the 1960 little league championship for their community. In 1962 he entered Soquel High School, where he was remembered by one of his classmates as being a "nice person and a friend that loved cars." It may have been the love of cars that influenced his after-school employment at a local Chevron service station.
In early 1966 Ronald Johnson enlisted in the US Army and received basic and advanced individual training at an unspecified camp. After completing his training, Johnson was sent to Vietnam. Upon his arrival on April 8, 1966, he was assigned to A Company, 12th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division.
In June, the army began Operations Irving and Thayer to clear the North Vietnam Army from Binh Dinh Province, and Johnson found himself in the thick of the fighting. The 1st Cavalry's Internet history recalls that,
“In the opening phases of Operation "Thayer I," enemy elements of the 7th and 8th battalions, 18th North Vietnamese Army Regiment had been reported in the village of Hoa Hoi [Binh Dinh Province]. The 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, in the face of strong heavy resistance, deployed to encircle the village. On 02 October, B Company was the first to be air assaulted into the landing area 300 meters east of the village. Immediately, the units came under intense small arms and mortar fire. A Company landed to the southwest and began a movement northeast to the village. In the meantime, C Company landed north of the village and began moving south. By this time A and B Companies had linked up and established positions which prevent the enemy from slipping out of the village during the night. [The12th Cav remained in that area until approximately December 27th.]”
During the fighting that ensued on December 17, 1966, Specialist Fourth Class Ronald Joe Johnson was killed by small arms fire. His body was recovered, returned to Santa Cruz and buried in Holy Cross Cemetery on Christmas Eve Day, 1966.
(CBR; VVVMW; Holy Cross Cemetery headstone; VVVW; SCSn December 19, 1966 1.3, December 22, 1966 20:6; 1st Cav History y http://www.first-team.us/journals/1stndx06.html, [16 Sept 2008])
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Ronald J. Johnson (1966/12/17)
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Johnson, Ronald
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Nelson, Robert L.
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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1960s
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County at War