Otto William Baumann, Jr
Private First Class
D CO, 1ST BN, 8TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV Army of the United States Spotswood, New Jersey July 23, 1946 to December 28, 1966 OTTO W BAUMANN Jr is on the Wall at Panel 13E, Line 89 |
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From the Reader's Digest, May, 2002, page 150,"A Soldier's Story":
A memorial initiated by a reader. |
I just dug out a copy of my induction orders from 1965 to find this soldier's name near mine. We may have sat together on that first bus ride to the Fort Dix Reception Station... I don't know, but I found it eerie that we ended up in entirely different units... but very near to one another in Vietnam later in our military careers. "Skip" died about 20 kilometers from a spot where I very nearly lost my life... ironically with the same Division - the 1st Cav. Our serial numbers were nearly identical, differing by only 6 numbers, and we are both "Jersey" boys. God rest his soul.
Jim Sheppard |
A Note from The Virtual WallOperation THAYER II in the Suoi Ca Valley began on 16 December 1966. Two days after Christmas, Companies B and C of the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, established contact with one NVA battalion and Delta 1/8 fought another, inflicting heavy casualties on the two NVA units at a cost of 15 men killed in action:
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