On 03 May 1967 B Company, 1st Bn, 5th Infantry lost four men in the Ho Bo Woods about 7 Kilometers South-Southeast of Ben Suc when their armored personnel carrier was hit by recoilless rife fire: SP4 James Herbert Flickinger, Burbank, California; PFC Chester Gale Jordan, Arlington, Texas (Bronze Star "V"); SP4 Glendell Morgan, Los Angeles, California; and SP4 Lee Henderson Russ, Oakland, California. A fifth member of the Company, SP4 Randall Arbogast of Valley Head, West Virginia, was wounded by a white phosphorous grenade and died at Brook Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas on 31 May 1967. Glendell went to Compton Senior High School, and was in the class of 1962. His photo in shadow box above taken from the 1960 El Componile yearbook. He was also a drummer in the High School Band as seen in photo below. One of his unit members, Denis McDonough, posted: "I only knew you as Morgan. You had Superman II on your flack jacket. Had I not been wounded a week earlier, I would have been in the 12 track on May 3rd." SP4 Glendell Morgan was survived by his mother Lela Mae Morgan Coats, Compton, California. He is buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California. His mother is buried with her second husband, Lewis Henry Coats (married 1955) in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California. It is undetermined if Glendell's father was deceased or divorced at the time of Glendell's death in Vietnam. - - The Virtual Wall, July 6, 2018

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