2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division

Trung Luong - 2/327th Infantry "No Slack" Vietnam

Name: Melvin Fenn
Hometown: Alvarado , Texas
Date: July 28, 2010 - 11:58 AM (pacific)

Great site. I can smell burning bamboo and taste the unique taste of the water there. My achilles still hurt so I have that effect going. Very proud I served; collectively we halted the cancer of communisim in that region of the world. We had a window of opportunity, for the blink of time we were just the right age...we took it and served. --Shot in right calf, medic Pate fixed it, did not infect...no lost time since we did not move much just then. A rare time of carrying a rolled up poncho at all, shot through it into the butt...Pate and Lt Eklund pulled it out...don't think any of us enjoyed it. Laughing. Grenade to right side during an assualt; no idea where we were when that thing flipped me, but instantly back to the feet as if carrying a fountain drink and not wanting to spill a bit...another piece of those frags just may be making it to the surface at this very time, and it is minorly exciting after so many decades. Bad deal on a parachute jump (no idea of who to thank for getting me out of that little deployment), and a comma for a few days, then right back to work. No purple hearts, as they were refused, same as I saw other guys do for insignificant wounds. I remember a cigarette lighter we were given just prior to leaving, one of my daughters holds it now, it reads on the face: "America's Finest at Freedoms Frontier". Wow, did I wear out several pairs of boots for that honor. We were tired, right! ---I've had a great life as I hope others have as well...lustfull times, confused times, fortunate and earned...most things once wronged were gotten 'better'. I Cannot complain.

Vietnam 2nd battalion

Trung Luong

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
By David Zucchino

Battle of Trung Luong
By Col. (Ret) Tom Furgeson

Trung Luong - Charlie Company
By LTC. (Ret) Chuck Beegle

Memories
By Bruce A. Masters

33 Years Later . . .
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Enemy After Action Report (found in the area of Trung Luong) Wait for it, it is a long download!

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Trung Luong Memorial

*Fallen at Trung Luong*
	Bierowski, Reiner Walter Cooke, Robert Morris Cottin, Leland Richard Denson, Floyd Cornelius Eastham, Martin Phillip Herrin, Larry Franklin Emmart, James Lee Hinton, Richard Johnson, Robert Charles Jones, Ronnie Lee McIlwee James R. Mooney, Patrick Thomas Munn, Alton Bernard Smith, Donald Ray Sornson, Edwin Harold Whiting, Richard Edward Williamson, Millard Leroy Condon, James Gregory III Cooper, Joseph Henry Jr. Hall, Michael Robert Johnson, Bruce Mark Liddell, Benjamin F. III Nelson, Wayne Herman Ryan, Frederick Lee Vester, Frederick Hazer Fuller, James E. Kelly, William Martin Peach, Robert Alan Stevenson, Billy Edward Wilson, Nathaniel Spencer, Gene B.	SGT PFC SP4 SGT PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC SP4 SGT PFC SGT PFC SP4 PFC PFC PVT PFC PFC PFC PFC PFC	A Company C Company HQ Company A Company HQ Company B Company B Company A Company B Company B Company C Company A Company A Company B Company B Company B Company B Company HQ Company C Company HQ Company HQ Company A Company HQ Company C Company HQ Company C Company C Company C Company C Company C Company B Company	KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 Medic with A Co KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 Medic with C Co KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 Company Roster KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/20/66 KIA 6/21/66 KIA 6/21/66 KIA 6/21/66 with A Co KIA 6/21/66 KIA 6/21/66 KIA 6/21/66 with C Co KIA 6/21/66 KIA 6/21/66 KIA 6/22/66 KIA 6/22/66 KIA 6/22/66 KIA 6/22/66 KIA 6/22/66 KIA 6/23/66 from earlier wounds

Trung Luong

Fallen at Trung Luong