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Association of the 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry (Mechanized) Site Updates - 2011

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This page is designed to be a "quick reference" page of work done on our Web Site. Visit this page often to check on the latest additions and corrections to the site. Please visit the Members Email page and check your email and unit affiliation information. If changes, additions or deletions are warranted, please use the links provided there to request updates. Historian Jim Sheppard is handling updates.  Feel free to contact him with comments and/or suggestions.

Dec. 29, 2011

Added Cemetery Information and Awards to the Memorial Page for James Morrissey, KIA on 29 December 1968, on the In Memoriam page.

Dec. 28, 2011

Added photos , Cemetery Information and Awards to the Memorial Pages for James Powell and Harold Green, KIA on 17 June 1970, on the In Memoriam page.

Dec. 21, 2011

Added copy of December Newsletter to the Newsletters page.

Dec. 20, 2011

Added 2 follow-up stories for Jan Byron (Knutson-Stone) on the War Stories and the R&R pages.

Dec. 18, 2011

Added 2 photos of Association Chaplain Parker Pierce on the Photo Album page. Also, Changed e-mail address for David Smith, "B" Co., 1967-8, on the E-mail Directory page.

Dec. 4, 2011

Added 2 new "Life Members" to the Life Member list on the Honors and Awards page. The newest life members are: Marvin Brophy and Ernie Milito. Also added their email addresses plus e-mail addresses for new regular members David Pope and Gary Erxleben to the e-mail members page page..."Welcome Home". Also Added book review for "The Lost Battalion of Tet", Charles A. Krohn, to the Vietnam Books Review page.

Nov. 30, 2011

Added 32 photos of Sam Barnhart on the Photo Album page.

Nov. 23, 2011

Added 4 photos of Henry Dunn on the Photo Album page.

Nov. 19, 2011

Added photo collection for Bob Odendahl on the Photo Album page. My apologies to all who have submitted photos over the past year or so. Other "issues" kept me from getting this work done...as you may not know, it is extremely labor intensive to post albums. It took about two days to post up Bob's 35 photos. Often, these submissions need editing in the form of cropping, retouching, etc. In the coming months, I will be working on photos from: Patrick Barnes, Duane Quello, Wendell Barnes, Ed Alvey, Bob Newton, Rick Hambley, Jerry Cooper, and Dennis Driscoll. I also need to begin work on quite a few other existing photo albums as they were posted with no descriptions "In a hurry" by Ray Sarlin. (I can now understand why! This work takes hours!... and I have months of full time work on these ahead of me!). I also have personal accounts and stories to post for Howard Goldstein (Now deceased), Rick Rajner, Leon Gallant and Jan Byron. I have obituary pages to do for Rick Ramey and Walt Landry...as well as an addition of some pictures of George Bell for his obituary memorial page taken on a subsequent tour in Vietnam. If y'all don't think I have much else to do, think again! ~grin~ As I still have thousands of pages acquired from the National Archives to convert from Picture to Document format, then print and file them all as well. Most of this work had been put aside as I worked on our Memorial Pages for our KIAs...and THAT work is still "ongoing" with Awards needing to be posted for about 80% of our Casualties. I am still working on creating files for about 30 men killed with "E" anf "F" Companies in Vietnam...and am CONSTANTLY updating and searching for photos of our KIAs and finding family and friends of our KIAs. Each time I get a new e-mail address to change and other updates for the website, all this other work gets "put on hold"...and there are obviously times I need to pay some attention to my new Bride!... not to forget preparing old and new archival items for reunions. I could use about 3 more of me...and maybe would be caught up in a year or so. Sure wish we had Ray Sarlin back with us...although I know that would take some serious forgiveness by many...I now have a much better understanding of how much work he devoted to the web site.

Nov. 17, 2011

Added Obituary for Tom Clark (Florida), former "C" Company, 2nd Platoon SP4, 1970, on the "taps" page. Also, Changed e-mail address for Thomas Sarsfield, "D" Co., 1967-8, on the E-mail Directory page.

Nov. 16, 2011

Changed e-mail address for Harry Bloomquist on the E-mail Directory page.

Nov 11, 2011

Added e-mail address for Lee Stevens (C Co, 1969-70) and Dean Spooner "Minehune" Squad Leader, on the E-mail Directory page. Also changed e-mail address for George Bell ("A" Co, 1968-9) on the E-mail Directory page.

Oct. 31, 2011

Updated the Halloween Firefight, 1967, story on the "War Stories" page. Walter Podraza supplied a long sought after photo of Scott Thiry & Former Medic Craig Reed contributed a personal account of the fight part of which was added as well. All three men killed in the fight now have photos on their memorial pages. KIA on this date in 1967: PSGT Douglas Brown, PFC Roger Hubbard and PFC Scott Thiry. All three were awarded Silver Stars Posthumously and the citations were obtained last year at the National Archives. I added the citations to each individual memorial page.

Oct. 25, 2011

Added e-mail address for SGT Al Zanetti on the E-mail Directory page. Al transferred from the 1st Cav. in 1970 to Charlie Company of the 2nd Battalion, 50th Infantry which was in Fort Hood Texas...sometime during 1970. He was an 11-Charlie.

Oct. 25, 2011

Changed e-mail address for Rigo Ordaz on the E-mail Directory page.

Oct. 24, 2011

Added book reviews for "Deliver Us From Evil", Thomas A Dooley, M.D., to the Vietnam Books Review page.

Oct. 16, 2011

Added book reviews for "Westmoreland", by Lewis Sorley, and "Cherries" by John Podlaski, to the Vietnam Books Review page.

Sept. 26, 2011

Added book reviews for "Vietnamese Gulag" by Doan Van Toai, and "Until they are Home" by Thomas T. Smith, to the Vietnam Books Review page.

Sept.  4, 2011

Added copy of August Newsletter to the Newsletters page. Updated e-mail addresses for Dennis Douglas and James Fitzgerald on the E-mail Directory page.

August 16, 2011

Added book review for "Phase Line Green: The Battle for Hue, 1968" by former Marine LT Nicholas Warr to the Vietnam Books Review page.

August 9, 2011

Changed e-mail address for Mick Hawkins on the E-mail Directory page.

July 25, 2011

Added e-mail address for Craig Reed, "C" Company Medic, 9/67 - 2/68, on the E-mail Directory page.

July 11, 2011

Added 8 new "Life Members" to the Life Member list on the Honors and Awards page. The newest life members are: Larry Lewis, Terry Goodwin, Dwaine Blumenstock, Michael McCardell, Michael Hastings, Steve Bower, Claude Newby and Richard Scott..."Welcome Home". Also added book review for "A Vietnamese Fighter Pilot in an American War" to the Vietnam Books Review page.

June 25, 2011

Changed e-mail address for Jim Edge, "A" Company, 9/68 - 5/69, on the E-mail Directory page.

June 23, 2011

Changed e-mail address for John Fellows, "C" Company, 9/67 - 8/68, on the E-mail Directory page.

May 17, 2011

Added New Vice-President Robert Melendez to the Association Officers page. Began work on the Reunion page...specifically the photos of our recent 2011 reunion.

May 14, 2011

Added e-mail addresses for Wayne Lamping, "B" Co, 9/67 to 9/68 and Darryl Cox, HHC-Commo from 3/69 to 2/70, to the E-mail Directory page. Added Obituary for former "B": Company Executive Officer Dan Dorsey to the "taps" page.

Mar. 7, 2011

Added e-mail address for Jim Hill, 2nd Security/"E"/50th Rifle Security, Da Nang, 1970-71, to the E-mail Directory page.

Feb. 13, 2011

Added new e-mail addresses for: Craig Canaday, Pete Iwema and Robert Woodcock on the E-mail Directory page. Added Obituary for former Battalion Commander John B. Carter to the "Taps" page.

Feb. 3, 2011

Added Obituary for Association Charter & Life Member Norman C. Poage on the "taps" page. Also added a collection of Norm's photos on the Photo Gallery Page.

Jan. 18, 2011

Added new e-mail address for David Horn on the E-mail Directory page. Added photo of Paul Branyan 31E-071 to his Memorial Page.

Jan. 13, 2011

Added new Life Members Carl Hollnagel and Lupe Saenz to the Life Members Page. Also added their e-mail addresses on the E-mail Directory page. Also added new e-mail address for Patrick Barnes on the E-mail Directory page.

Jan. 1, 2011

Happy New Year to all! A BUSY day for your Webmaster/Historian!  I have updated the Reunions Page with all you need to know for the upcoming (April 26 to 29) reunion at Fort Benning. I also added a few photos of our informal gathering at Gettysburg back in the beginning of October on the same reunions page. additionally, I have loaded a new "site updates" page for 2011 and archived the 2010 updates to the "Site Map" page...and, finally, the latest Association Newsletter for December, 2010, is now available on the Newsletters page. (Newsletters will be in the mail sometime next week).

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2008 Archive

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2007 Archive

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2006 Archive

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