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Ernest Eugene Fawks
Specialist Four
C CO, 1ST BN, 502ND INFANTRY, 101ST ABN DIV, USARV Army of the United States Altoona, Pennsylvania March 11, 1937 to March 03, 1968 ERNEST E FAWKS is on the Wall at Panel 42E, Line 50 |
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4 Mar 2002
In memory of my father, Ernest E. Fawks, killed in action March 3rd 1968 near Hue, South Vietnam. Missed by his daughter Cheryl Ann Fawks. If anyone was with him on the day he died or may have known him, please contact me with any information at cheryl814@yahoo.com |
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On March 1, 1968, 1st Battalion, 502nd Airborne Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, began combat operations in Quang Tri district near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), initiating patrols from Fire Support Base (FSB) Nora and An Lo Bridge while remaining elements of the battalion continued construction of FSB Sally. Alpha Company moved to the village of Ap Lai Xa where they had made heavy contact the day before. They found no enemy, but villagers stated that there had been approximately two hundred North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC) fighters in the village and that they had been up most of the night dragging off their dead. Delta Company made light contact and the battalion commander's Command & Control (C&C) ship orbiting overhead used its guns to kill sixteen NVA. On March 2nd, the battalion continued search and destroy operations, making light contact throughout the day with booby-traps wounding three troopers. Search and destroy operations continued on March 3rd from An Lo Bridge to the village of Ap Duc Trong. Bravo and Charlie Companies made heavy contact from the village and called for all available fire support as they pulled back. After heavy fighting for over four hours, both companies were withdrawn by air. B Company lost one man, PFC Richard Lee Borgman, and C Company suffered three killed: SP4 Ernest Eugene Fawks, PFC Henry Norfleet Jr., and PFC James Earl Williams (both Norfleet and Williams were posthumously promoted to Corporal). During extraction, the Battalion commander's C&C aircraft received heavy fire, wounding the battalion commander, his radioman, the battalion S-2 intelligence officer, and aircraft commander. The battalion S-2, CPT Frank Robert Dimmitt, from Headquarters & Headquarters Company (HHC), was dead on arrival at Camp Evans. [info from 101namveteran.com] 
SP4 Earnest Eugene Fawks was survived by his mother Mary (Feathers) Fawks (1907-1975) and father Charles Theodore Fawks (1904-1972) and he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. 
- - The Virtual Wall, 23 May 2021
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