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  • Subject is exactly "Wars-Vietnam War"

Date: 10/22/2015
Type: MOVING IMAGE

Date: 1/26/2015
Type: MOVING IMAGE

Date: 5/19/2016
Type: MOVING IMAGE

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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…

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Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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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…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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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…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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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…

Date: Undated
Source: Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Type: OBIT

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