A Note from The Virtual Wall
Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain), a dormant volcano, rises some 3000 feet above the surrounding plain in Tay Ninh Province. During the war, the Army had a signal relay station atop the mountain, and Allied troops controlled the plain below - but the slopes of the jungle-covered Black Virgin were no-man's-land. On 13 May 1968 the VC attacked the relay station, killing at least 21 American servicemen in bitter hand-to-hand fighting:
- CPT George Coleman, Birmingham, AL, Prov Sig Co, 125th Sig Bn
- CPT Arthur L. Davis, Beaufort, NC, 587th Sig Co, 86th Sig Bn
- 2LT Thomas N. Teague, Mountlake Terrace, WA, Prov Sig Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SSG Ray W. Owen, Columbia, SC, Prov Sig Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SSG Harold A. Stone, Champaign, IL, Prov Sig Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SSG Bobby C. Wood, Monroe, LA
- SGT Joseph Adams, New Orleans, LA, Prov Sig Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SGT Fernando Calle-Zuluaga, Los Angeles, CA, 587th Sig Co, 86th Sig Bn
- SGT Timothy J. Noden, Linwood, PA, A Co, 2nd Bn, 18th Infantry
- SP4 John A. Anderson, Williamsville, NY,HHC, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry
- SP4 Ralph R. Black, Crystal Falls, MI, C Co, 121st Sig Bn
- PFC Samuel G. Connelly, Hammond, IN, A Co, 2nd Bn, 18th Infantry
- SP4 Moses J. Cousin, Detroit, MI, Prov Sig Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SP4 Albert E. Dahl, Aurora, IL, B Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SP4 James A. Davis, Orlando, FL, B Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SP4 Gary J. Gilin, Detroit, MI, A Co, 4th Bn, 9th Infantry
- SP4 Jeffrey W. Haerle, Minneapolis, MN, HQ, 3rd ASA Fld Station
- SP4 Paul R. Hoag, Poughkeepsie, NY, Prov Sig Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SP4 Michael J. Juneau, Hessmer, LA, B Co, 125th Sig Bn
- SP4 Paul R. Lozano, Bay City, TX, 587th Sig Co, 86th Sig Bn
- SP4 Frank J. Makuh, Placentia, CA, C Co, 121st Sig Bn
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Burial will be in Victoria Lawn Cemetery [St. Catharines, Ontario] after a military funeral service in Church of Nativity in Williamsville near Buffalo. The church service will begin there at 10 a.m.
Army Specialist 4-C Anderson, who moved to Williamsville, N.Y., with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Anderson, 15 years ago, was killed May 13 in combat with the 25th Division at Bue Le Den [sic] in the Central Highlands. He was a radioman.
He had been in Vietnam since October. A Canadian citizen, Anderson joined the army in October of 1966.
- Hamilton Spectator, date unknown -
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