Brave Rifle Platoons

327 Infantry Veterans - Vietnam War

1/327th Infantry “Above The Rest” Vietnam

Brave Rifle Platoons

Pictures were submitted by:
Dewey Smith, Bill Ross, Larry Jackson

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Weapons Platoon

Back Row: Sagalow, Barcliff (WIA), Pittman, Johnson (KIA), Balonzie, Gunther, Travers, Vieth (WIA), Smith, Ivy, Stout, Yundt.

Middle Row: Lester, Thomas, Ingram (WIA), Bailree (KIA), Ross, Robinson, Stringer, Gale, Stine, Henry, Kisner.

Front Row: Chambers, Bushnell (WIA), Guglielmoni (KIA), Hale (WIA), Williams, Adame (WIA), Jenkins, Lanford.

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1st Platoon
Taken In Phan Rang, Early 1967

Top left
Salazar…Detweiler…Hartness…Allen (WIA 6-67)…Gardner (KIA 4-67)…?…Cassidy (KIA when returned with 82nd in March 68)…Jones…?…?…Garrett (killed at Ft. Bragg in a car wreck), Arrington, Robinson.

Middle Row Left
?…?…Pegrim…Starr…Randy Minor (KIA 6-67)…Stuart…Boeddeker…Murphy …Cadmus…?…Ford (WIA ) …?

Front Row Left
Robinson…Ruiz…..Denny Fritchman…Nickas…?…Utley (PSG) (WIA later assignment) …?… Kim Bowlin…?…Donnelly…Price.

If anyone can add the names where the ? marks are, it will be greatly appreciated.

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1/327th Officers
Picture taken in mid-November stand down, just before the Phan Thiet operation.

LTC Morse behind guidon (COL, Ret)

Capt. Larry Jackson far left front row

Second from left CPT Harold McGaha, Columbia, SC, Tiger Force Leader, was KIA (1968)

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2nd Platoon 1967

Plt. SSG Williams behind flag.
1st LT. Larry Jackson holding flag.
SP/4 Stuckey Plt. RTO first row right.