Fort Campbell in Montgomery County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965-1972

Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, May 4, 2024

1. Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965 - 1972 Marker

Inscription.
Stranger, if you go to the land of the Spartans, tell them we lie here, obedient to their laws.

Do not forget us, for then, we truly will have died. May the pride, strength, and courage of the Strike Force endure forever.

1965 Robert R Bohler • Charles E Boston • Frank Boynton • George E Burchett • George W Burkheart • Herbert J Dexter • Johnnie W Faircloth • James T Faulkner • Ernest K Gerhardt • James W Grey • Lercy Hicks • Lawrence Jackson • George G Kilbuck • James H Lewis • Joe L Meek • Ernest L Miller • Robert E Rawls • Rudy M Sagon • Jose W Suarez • Joseph R Sweda • Roynald E Taylor • Jerry D Underwood • Pete A Valasquez • Johnnie P Winfrey

1966 Jarel W Ayers • Jesse T Bailey • James H Baker Jr • Gerald J Bannach • Will Page Barton II • Roger L Berg • Carlos Betancourt-Mojica • Charles J Blanco • Kenneth C Boudreaux • John D Bowman III • John A Brown • George E Bryant • Marshall Burke Jr • Stephan E Burton • Robert L Clark • Horton S Coker Jr • Roger C Collette • William F Collier • William Cooley • Denton W Crooker • William L Cyr • Robert O Davis • David

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K Deen • Lawrence J Diesher • Thomas R Devlin • David L Dodson • Robert J Donovan • Joseph R Ellman • Richard M Epps • Andrew C Evans • Carl L Falck Jr • Robert A Fenton • David Flores • Luster C Friel • Edward T Frodsham • Bobby G Gadie • Clarence Galloway • David B Garcia • Edward Garcia • Vincent F Garvey • Anthony Gennocro • Galen D Grethen • Joseph D Guerrero • Robert Hadden • Robert Hanna • J D Harrell • Gene Hawthorne • Timothy L Hayes • A T Howell • James L Hudspeth • Terry F Huston • Malakia Jackson Jr • Otis E Jackson • Sylvester Jackson Jr • Phillip P Jenkins • David Johnson • Joe T Johnson • Ronald W Jones • Ernest Kelly Jr • Randle Kinney • Mack A Knight • Famous L Lane • William Leon • Bruce L Marosites • Tomas V Martinez • Robert L McCaig • Tommie L McFarland • Clifford A McKennan • John M Mincie • Steven P Mollohan • Alexander Montoya • Tommy Morales • George A Morningstar • Lawrence D Mungin III • Michael T Murphy • Melvin T Nishiyama • Ronnie L Noseff • Duane V Olson • William F Otto • Willie J Peppers Jr • Dennis L Phillips • Walter Piper Jr • Johnny P Price

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2. Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965 - 1972 Marker

• Melvin Reeder • Elias R Rodriguez • David A Scott • William D Settlemire • Derreil K Sharp • James E Shuyler • Michael Simpson George J Skapinsky • Anthony Skodmin • Bruce M Smith • Fred D Smith Jr • Hubert R Smith • Stephen J Steriti • Alfred L Stonehouse • Richard A Sullivan • Joseph J Swayze • Roy E Thomas • Robert E Thompson • Wayne M Traylor • Ernest A Tucker • Alex E Vaczi • Hardin B Walker • Russell B Walker • Frankie L Wallace • James C Wallace • Donald Webb • Howard D Weiss • Walter Williams • Richard Youngbear

1967 Ray A Archuletta • Fiorentino C Barron • Robert W Barton • Percy Beasley Jr • Louis W Bellach Jr • Edward Bobo • David Boggs • Richard K Boyd • Paul D Caramella • John Charlton • Ronald P Cherrstrom • Roy D Chitwood • Walerija Chulchatschinow • James L Coachman Jr • Wayne A Colantuono • Ray E Coln • Curtis E Cothran • Holbert E Davis • Reinaldo Delgado • William Duncan • Larry D Earls • Earl K Easterling • Coil Edmond Jr • Ernie J Elfenbein • William K Elliott • Aldwin A Ellis • Baxter F Ervin • Chris S Evans • Charles R Ferrell • James B Fields • Hugh

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3. Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965 - 1972 Marker

R Flemister • Thomas L Forbes • Donald R Foster • Thomas E Francis • William J Franks • William C Freund • Darrell F Gaskins • Walter L Goshorn • Jesse F Green Jr • Wille R Griffith • Michael Grimes • Earle C Hamilton Jr • William E Hamilton • Arthur L Hawkins Jr • Randy L Heerdt • James R Hicks • Rodney G Hill • John W Hudgens • Danny L Ingles • Alexander Jackson • Allen L Jackson • Kenneth E James • Stanley M Jamrozy • William A Jateff • Sanford S Johnson • Gary B Jones • Thomas E Joseph • Elmer L Juckett • Coleman J Kane • Charles H Kilgore • Ivan C King • Wilber L Kohr • Carl R Konopa • Robert L Lee Jr • James T Likely • James C Martin • Victor A Mazitis • James M McCormick • Craig Allen McDaniel • Calvin L McDavis • Larry J McDonald • James A McKenzie • Robin P Milovich • Johnson Minnitee Jr • David H Mitchell • Dennis P Neely • Mark W Neumann • Dennis G Nicola • John H O'Brien • Phillip J Olofson • George E Overshine • Robert J Padgett • Eugene A Parish • Ronald W Parker • Joseph Parks • Johnnie H Patterson • Thomas Petramalo • Robert Lenwood Platt J • Allen W Porter • William

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4. Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965 - 1972 Marker

A Proctor • Robert J Reginald • Ossie Reynolds • Steven B Riccione • Richard P Ruiz • Daniel J Ryan • O D Scott • Charles Seefeldt • John C Silver • Elijah H Smith • Vennie L Smith • Alvin R Spider • Andrew P Stein Jr • Henry J Stuckey • George Tallman • David A Tanner • Calvin L Taylor • Henry E Teaslev • Rufus A Thomas Jr • Leon Thornton • Jerry J Tucker • Jackie A Tuohy • Raymond R Turner • George H Ulrich • Norman W Vincent • Oliver A Ware • Dale E Wayrynen • Carson Leo Whaley Jr • Calvin P White • Alan D Whitlock • Henry J Wilhelmi • William E Willingham • Garold T Wilson • William E Wilson • John M Zehnder

1968 Billie R Acree • Dennis K Anderson • James B Anderson • Craig P Averill • Leslie A Ball • Christopher H Bell • Donald J Boaz • Charles P Brown • John P Brown • Richard C Brown • Gene M Burkell • Vincent J Caravello • Alan G Carter • Jackie D Chambers • Albert E Collins • Michael L Deane • Michael F Deeny • Russell F Deitchler • Charles D Dorman • Vesti T Driggers • Phillip John Essig • Willie G Gaddy • Larry M Gross • Richard O Gullixson • Charles W Harbert • Franklin

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5. Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965 - 1972 Marker

D Hatton • Francis J Hefner • Robert E Holeyfield • James M Holmes • Jimmy L Howard • Robert D Hughes • Dennis Hyland • Crawford Jackson Jr • James J Jenk • James Johnson Jr • Obbie Johnson • Robert L Jones • Terry Kenny • David Allen Knox • John E Laipple • Dale L Lambert • Milton A Lee • William W Lester • Richard L Lohse • Luis A Lopez-Ramos • Gary M Mabrey • David A Maddux • Charles B Mason • Leonard D McGinnis • Donald R Miller • Graham L Mills • Jeff Mulkey • Joseph Neal • James E O'Toole Jr • Jerry L Patrick • Morris Powell • Dennis E Purcell • Jewel L Rainwater • Thomas E. Raubolt • Anthony Reed • Robert Rera • Jesse E Scavella • Amos C Sherill • James R Sherwood • Michael W Sinibald • Jerry E Spicer • Mark G Stickles • Robert M Sullivan • Eugene M Sutton Jr • Terry L Tebbetts • Marvin G Tozour • John E Urbelis • Richard W Van Blarcom • David Wagner • Edward Walker • Charles E Walthall • Jerry D Wells • Eugene Williams • Lawrence D Williams • Stephen M Worley

1969 Alfred E Alvey Jr • Robert Ballard • Anderson D Bolton • William H Brown Jr • Elijah W Burkett • Daniel

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6. Dedicated to the 2/502 Troopers Killed-in-Action in Vietnam 1965 - 1972 Marker

G Casey • Lorenzo Chapa Jr • Charles Earl Clubbs • Juan A Covarrubias • Robert D DeBoard • Alan David Ela • Steven E Frederick • Ralph L Glover • Robert E Grant • John E Gurovick • William L Hayden • Earl T Hoag • Richard L Hopkins • Roger H Howes • Ralph E Johnson • James Jones • Steven T Kiel • Richard M Logan • Fernando L Lozano • William D McGivern • Douglas W McPhee • Thomas Mendenhall • Richard D Miller • Matthew E Morton Jr • John L Motley Jr • Alvin R Narcisse • James Michael Norman • Wayne L Noth • Bobby Quesenberry • Tony Palacios • Roy Vernon Rawlin • Dennis L Roads • William A Ruddan • Antonino Ruggeri • Roger W Smelser • Frank D Smitherman • Joseph O Strickland • David E Theobald • Leon Tisdale • Jimmy R Westmoreland • Jimmy W Willeford • Jack E Williams • Thomas L Wisniowicz

1970 Samuel Earl Asher • Robert E Backman • Russell L Bahrke Jr • Louis J Barberia • Lawrence Bierbaum • John J Burns Jr • Morgan L Cahoon • Róbert E Cain • Frank Carvajal • Jimmie L Chamblee • David L Christopherson • John A Claggett • Newton S Clement • Harold G Craft • John L Davis • Robert

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R Davis • Timothy C Farrell • Kenneth L Foutz • Frank R Fratellenico • Ralph A Gaddis • Gary W Gear • Stephen A Golsh • John T Gutekunst • Delbert E Hall • Ronald L Haug • Donnie E Horton • Frederick E Huttie III • Michael C Jensen • Ben O Johnson • McArthur Johnson • William E Johnson • David L Jones • Marshall K Jones • Charles R King • Philip Knieper • Jeffery Kuersten • Gerald A Kulm • Vincent M LaRocca • Rudolph Lovato • Billy R Lucas • Leo J Ludvigsen • William P Lyons • Willianı E Malcolm Jr • John R Mariani • Billy R McCullough • Ivory L McKinney • Green E Miller Jr • Paul Miller • Raymond R Moon • William W Morrow • Peter F Nolan • Vernon L Oakland • Marlin T Peterson • Fernando Rios-Maldonado • Roy L Richardson • Val C Robinson • Sidney E Rohler • Pastor F Ruiz • Steve R Sandlin • Ronald E Schmidt • Harold W Shuler • Sheldon Silverman • Allen J Smith • Wayne K Smith • William J Stieve • Edward W Stone • Stanley H Trygg Jr • James A Tyner • Robert A Wall • Phillip R Warfield • Gary Washenik • Glen R Witycyak

1971 Alvin Adikai Jr • David B Beglau • John T Dozier II • Evelyn F Lankford • Larry D Loden • Lonnie W Mitchel • Frederick Murphy

1972 Ronnie D Beets • Rubert G Humphreys

Reverse side of marker:
Medal of Honor Dale E. Wayrynen 18 May 1967 • Milton A. Lee 26 April 1968 • Frank R. Fratellenico 19 August 1970

At least 448 2/502 soldiers were killed in Vietnam and at least 2500 were wounded. Nearly every man committed to the rifle platoons of the battalion became a combat casualty.

In Memory of the Strike Force soldiers
lost in a tragic midair collision 8 March 1988. Shirley, Charles L. • Alter, Richard L. • Sabot, Dennis C. • Hintz, Samuel A. • bath, Clifford W. III • Draper, James Jr. • Jankowski, Michael • Sayer, Timothy S. • Franklin, Andrew J. III • Rivas, Jeffrey L.

Erected 1986 by Strike Force Association.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, Vietnam.

Location. 36° 38.188′ N, 87° 27.207′ W. Memorial is in Fort Campbell, Tennessee, in Montgomery County. It is on Tennessee Avenue south of Screaming Eagle Blvd, on the left when traveling south. Marker is on the campus of Fort Campbell. Visitors must access the base via Gate 7 to access marker. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 5658 Tennessee Ave, Fort Campbell KY 42223, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Middle Tennessee

and in the Highland Rim.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Div (a few steps from this marker); In Honor of Strike Force Medal of Honor Recipients (a few steps from this marker); Strike (a few steps from this marker); 1st Battalion 502D Infantry Regiment (a few steps from this marker); Died in Service While Assigned to Strike Brigade Combat Team (a few steps from this marker); Operation Iraqi Freedom 1 (a few steps from this marker); Operation Iraqi Freedom (a few steps from this marker); Six Outstanding Soldiers (a few steps from this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Fort Campbell.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 12, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 3, 2024, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. This page has been viewed 712 times since then and 156 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on June 8, 2024, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.