A friend of mine told me about this website and I think it is great. I am sending a few pictures that were taken 1 month before my brother "Larry" was killed. Larry had many friends and 11 brothers and sisters. Thanks for all you do. -- Debbie Shrum Seibert 12-17-2012

Larry and Phil Morris at the 137th Dayroom 6-5-68. Larry found this B40 rocket at the #93 Sand Pit. Larry sitting in the cab of his crane 6-13-68.

Initial report shows that at 16:15 hours on 22 July, 1968, elements of the 137th Engineer Company were traveling south of Tam Quan were caught in an ambush, receiving fire from both the east and west sides of highway QL-1 resulting in 13 killed in hostile action (KHA), 1 wounded and 1 missing (Later KHA). Two (2) of the KHAs were South Vietnamese soldiers and ultimately 12 US servicement died from this event. ARVN armored personnel carriers, gunships, rocketships, and artillery were called into the area. Due to intense enemy contact, ambush site could not be reached immediately. Intial report determined many pieces of equipment damaged, but extent unknown. At 2300 hours, one platoon of Echo Company, 17th Cavalry and one platoon made up of elements from A and Headquarters Companies, 19th Engineer Battalion, and the 137th Engineer Company, reached ambush site and retrieved bodies and wounded. The 12 men killed during this ambush, one of the largest single Engineer event losses in Vietnam (Engineers lost over 1,500 men during the Vietnam War), were PVT George Nathan Davis, Bedford, Virginia SSG Hugh Mozell Davis, Portsmouth, Virgnia 1LT David Michael Drob, Mount Clemens, Michigan CPT Siegfried Louis Graebner, New York, New York SP4 David Bruce Kelley, Los Angeles, California PFC Gerald Dennis Kiesling, Portsmouth, Virgnia SP5 Roger Dale Shafer, Baroda, Michigan SP4 William Lawrence Shrum, Phoenix, Arizona SP Jerry Lee Shultz, Zanesville, Ohio SSG Valentine Tucker, Chicago, Illinois PFC Marc Gregory Van Dalsam, Des Moines, Iowa SGT Gary Robert Willeke, Ada, Ohio -- The Virtual Wall

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