NH Honor Roll - The Vietnam War

The Photos shown below originate from two distinct Web Pages honoring Vietnam Veterans lost in service to their Country.

Please visit the Original Web Pages for additional Comments, Letters and Service reports:

The Virtual Wall: 

https://www.virtualwall.org/istate/istatnh

The Wall of Faces:

https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/

New Hampshire Soldier "D" Names

Private Terry Michael Abbott: US Marines - Lancaster NH May 8, 1949 - Feb 22, 1968

Private First Class David Alan Ackerman: US Army - Derry NH July 18, 1949 - June 6, 1968

SP5 Robert Paul Ahern : US Army - Laconia

March 19, 1942 - March 30, 1969

Sergeant Daniel John Albert: US Army - Berlin NH

November 19, 1948 - November 21, 1968

Maj John Christopher Archbold: US Marines - Portsmouth NH October 17, 1929 - June 7, 1969  

John had enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Entered the service via Regular Military. Served during the Vietnam War. He began his tour on November 24, 1968. Archbold had the rank of Major. His military occupation or specialty was Pilot VMA A 4.

Attached to III Marine Amphibious Force, 1st MAW, HMM 364. During his service in the Vietnam War, Marine Corps Major Archbold experienced a traumatic event which ultimately resulted in loss of life on June 7, 1969. Recorded circumstances attributed to: Died through non-hostile action, air crash on land. Incident location: South Vietnam, Quang Nam province.

SSG Frank Neil Badolati: US Army - Gofstown NH

March 9th, 1933 - January 29th, 1966

Staff Sergeant DET B-52 (PROJECT DELTA), HHC, 5TH SF GROUP, USARV Army of the United States Goffstown, New Hampshire March 19, 1933 to January 29, 1966 SSGT Badolati was a member of Detachment B-52, Project Delta, 5th Special Forces Group.

Project Delta was formed in October 1964. Their missions included some of the most hazardous and critical actions in South Vietnam. Augmenting the 5th Special Forces (Green Berets) was a Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG) Security Company, a group of South Vietnamese Special Forces, a South Vietnamese Ranger Battalion and a CIDG “Roadrunner” Company (Roadrunners were equipped with enemy uniforms, equipment and weapons).

Operation Masher (January 24 – March 6, 1966) was the largest search and destroy mission up to that point in the war. Project Delta was selected to reconnoiter the northern end of the An Lao valley. This area of the An Lao Valley is covered with thick vegetation with a great deal of elephant grass, three to four feet tall, and interspersed with cultivated fields. Steep slopes bound the valley on both sides with anti-aircraft emplacements. Intelligence indicated that there were two Regiments of North Vietnamese in the valley supported by Viet Cong insurgents.

With such a heavy concentration of enemy forces, the former commander of Project Delta, Major Art Strange, warned incoming commander Major Charles “Charging Charlie” Beckwith in July of 1965 to “Stay out of the An Lao Valley. They have sophisticated warning systems and tracking dogs.” Operation Masher and “Charging Charlie” ignored good advice. The operation required insertion of recon teams into the valley but problems plagued the mission. Beckwith decided to not augment the Recon teams with South Vietnamese counterparts (as was standard procedure), ground intelligence was unconfirmed, the weather was bad, helicopter and gunship support would be limited due to the anti-aircraft guns, and, as stated before, the enemy controlled the valley.

The last time friendly forces were in the valley was 1958. Beckwith choose to insert three teams comprised of American Special Forces troopers. Badolati was assigned to Team ROADRUNNER along with SFC Marcus Huston (Team Leader), SSGT Billy McKeith, MSGT Wiley Gray, SSGT Ron Terry and SSGT Cecil Hodgson. The mission quickly disintegrated. Team ESKIMO had to abort with one wounded. A woodcutter in the hills spotted Team CAPITOL and they were ambushed, losing four men and the other two were wounded. Team ROADRUNNER made initial contact with enemy forces at around 9:30 on 28 January and again at about 12:30. During the first volley of fire that afternoon Badolati was hit in the upper left arm, the bullet almost severing the arm. SFC Hodgson applied a tourniquet while the team was still under fire.

The team then broke contact and moved about 600 yards, stopping to provide medical help to Badolati. They immediately came under fire. The team then split into two groups to evade the pursuing enemy. Gray, Hodgson and Terry evaded the ambush site in a different direction from Badolati, Huston and McKeith. The group with Badolati tried to use the cover along the steep slopes and after dark used a streambed to hide their trail. Finally Badolati stated that he “could not go any further” and for them to leave him behind. Ignoring his plea, Huston and McKeith stopped in a concealed position two to three feet up the stream bank. Despite constant medical attention to Badolati’s mangled arm, his condition continued to deteriorate. He died in the early morning hours of 29 January 1966.

The remaining team members were forced to leave Badolati’s body hidden in the boulders and scrubs with the hope to recover it with a Search and Rescue (SAR) team. The two survivors successfully evaded and were recovered later by helicopter. According to Homecoming II records, Gray, Hodgson and Terry successfully evaded the rest of that day and then settled into a hiding place for the night. At first light on the 29th, the three men began moving again and did not make contact with the enemy until 4:30 that afternoon. All three were lying in elephant grass when they saw seven Viet Cong soldiers standing four feet to the right and rear of them. They opened fire, killing three of the seven.

Shortly thereafter, Gray heard Terry yell that he had been hit and saw him holding his right side. Suddenly Terry’s body arched as another bullet struck him, it was obvious this second bullet killed Terry. Gray could not locate Hodgson and decided to move roughly 20 feet to a more defendable position and waited in ambush for the enemy. A little later Gray heard both enemy and Hodgson’s weapons being discharged, then silence. Gray continued to evade the enemy and was recovered the next day by helicopter. Charging Charlie was wounded on the fire support mission and left Project Delta the next week. Of the seventeen men who went into the An Lao Valley seven were killed and three wounded.

SP4 Gary Wayne Ball : US Army - Walpole NH

March 25, 1948 - July 16, 1968

SP4 Glendon Roman Barnett: US Army - Jaffrey NH     March 19, 1944 - June 14, 1967  

SGT James B Bartlett: US Army -  Portsmouth NH           April 6, 1942 - July 2, 1966

Sergeant Gaetan Jean Guy Beaudoin: US Army - Manchester NH September 5, 1948 - August 26, 1969

SP4 Gilbert Thomas Beaupre: US Army - Manchester NH April 3, 1943 - October 25, 1967

2nd Leutenant Michael E Bennett: US Army - Brentwood NH April 15, 1946 - November 2, 1967

Sergeant Guy Andre Blanchette: US Army - Manchester NH  November 30, 1046 - August 26, 1969

Sergeant Lawrence Clifford Bloom : US Army - Exeter NH  March 28, 1947 - January 26, 1968

Corporal Richard George Bouchard: US Marines - Manchester NH:  July 17, 1947 - September 19, 1969

SP4 Michael Ervan Brady: US Army - Newport NH -

January 1, 1946 - January 28, 1967

Corporal Richard Albert Brooks: US Marines - Pittsfield NH - August 3, 1947 - April 25, 1968

Staff Sergeant Cecil Angus Broome Jr. : US Army - Lancaster NH - September 5, 1933 - May 26, 1966

1st Leut. Bruce Wadleigh Brown: US Army - Hampton NH - February 13, 1945 - September 12, 1968

PFC James Warren Brown: US Army - Campton NH -       July 16, 1946 - March 13, 1966

SP4 Mark Lawrence Brown : US Army - Hampton NH -   April 19, 1950 - September 27, 1969

SP4 Warren Richard  Brown: US Army - Nashua NH -   May 18, 1947 - February 22, 1968

SP4 David Elvin Bunker: US Army - Kingston NH - November 8, 1946 - November 13,1967

Colonel Sheldon John Burnett:  US Army - Pelham, New Hampshire - June 9, 1931 - May 29, 1979

Captain John Bishop Cabana Jr: US Air Force - New Castle NH  September 22, 1939 - March 29, 1967

Staff Sergeant George Eugene Cahill: US Marine Corps - Rochester NH  February 13, 1938 - August 29, 1967

Lance Corporal Paul Joseph Camire: US Marine Corps - Exeter NH  November 7, 1946 - May 25, 1967

Paul the son of William P. Camire and Lillian B. Camire of Exeter NH enlisted in the US Marine Corps on February 24 1966 in Manchester NH. In Vietnam he was serving with Company G, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, 3d MARDIV (Rein) FMF.

On May 27, during Operation CUMBERLAND, Company G was under the OPCON (Operational Control) of the 3d Battalion, 26th Marines, patrolling in the vicinity of Thon Khe Buy northwest of Nam Hoa in Thua Thien Province when an artillery round fired in support of friendly forces fell short of its designated target. The explosion resulted in the death of LCpl Camire as a result of multiple fragmentation wounds.

Corporal Frank Lee Cass: US Army - Plymouth NH  November 1, 1951 - March 11, 1971

PFC Robert Sheehan Castelot: US Marine Corps - Hillsborough NH  January 21, 1948 - June 11, 1968

Sergeant William Earl Cate: US Marine Corps - Hillsborough NH  October 4, 1936 - September 15, 1966

Lance Corporal Howard Arthur Chamberlin: US Marine Corps - Brookfield NH  January 10, 1947 - September 12, 1967

PFC Arthur Edward Clough: US Marine Corps - Grantham NH  March 18, 1950 - February 18, 1970

PFC Ronald Raymond Cormier: US Marine Corps - Portsmouth NH  April 8, 1948 - April 21, 1967

Warrant Officer Martin James Coronis: US Army - Nashua NH  December 6, 1942 - July 11, 1967

PFC Ralph Ronald Cummings: US Marine Corps - Portsmouth NH  February 13, 1951 - March 18, 1971

PO2 William Stanley Cutting: US Navy - Lebanon NH  October 29, 1944 - April 1, 1968

SFC George Lewis Dale: US Army - Gorham NH  July 4, 1941 - May 6, 1968

1st Lieutenant Raymond Coyle Daley: US Marine Corps - Dover NH  November 30, 1943 - July 3, 1968

Sergeant Ronald Charles Davis: US Army - New Boston NH  December 20, 1948 - January 23, 1970

PFC William Thomas Davis: US Marine Corps - Holderness NH  July 18, 1949 - August 25, 1968

SP4 Darwin James Delano: US Army - Hinsdale NH  March 23, 1947 - November 26, 1968

Corporal Arthur Emile Demers Jr. : US Marine Corps - Penacook NH  November 25, 1946 - July 2, 1967

Corporal Richard Arthur Demers: US Marine Corps - Berlin NH  February 27, 1947 - October 16, 1967

 Warrant Officer Richard Terrance Derosier: US Army - Claremont NH  July 10, 1940 - January 3, 1970

Staff Sergeant Maurice Claude Descoteaux: US Army - Berlin NH  February 9, 1930 - August 19, 1967

PFC George Philip Desmarais: US Marines - Concord NH  July 24, 1949 - March 28, 1968

1st Lieutenant Charles Joseph Dickey: US Army - Lancaster NH  October 9, 1941 - July 7, 1968

HR Robert Paul Dionne: US Army - Manchester NH  April 2, 1943 - July 14, 1965

Corporal Leon Normand Doucet: US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  September 8, 1945 - February 5, 1967

PFC William Raymond Douillette Jr. : US Army - Concord NH  October 20, 1950 - January 29, 1969

Master Sergeant Lawrence Normond Dubia: US Marine Corps - Tilton NH  July 3, 1934 - February 4, 1970

PFC Josephn Agustus Durling III: US Marines - Derry NH  March 3, 1949 - September 7, 1967

CWO Orrin Leonard Dyer Jr.: US Army - Rumney NH  July 1, 1929 - February 3, 1968

PSGT Robert Bennett Emro: US Army - Strafford NH  October 27, 1929 - April 18, 1967

Captain John Paul Falcone Jr. : US Army - Hampton NH  October 28, 1939 - November 11, 1967

Captain William Newcomer Feaster (Chaplain): US Army - Portsmouth NH  May 14, 1938 - October 26, 1966

Private Ralph Barnard Fecteau Jr. : US Marine Corps - Cornish NH  December 6, 1947 - May 3, 1968

Lance Corporal Robert Edward Finan: US Marine Corps - Claremont NH  July 5, 1949 - December 16, 1969

SFC James Norman Finn: US Army - Salem NH  June 6, 1931 - December 4, 1966

Staff Sergeant George Francis Flanagan: US Marine Corps - Nashua NH  September 12, 1938 - January 4, 1968

Corporal Peter Fletcher: US Marine Corps - Hudson NH  September 21, 1946 - January 20, 1969

Warrant Officer Marshall H Ford: US Army - Marlborough NH  April 10, 1945 - January 7, 1968 / Panel 33E Line 67

Corporal William George Frasier: US Marines - Manchester NH  February 4, 1947 - December 28, 1967

SP5 Edward Francis Fratus : US Army - Concord NH  February 17, 1949 - December 9, 1969

Corporal Gerald James Frost: US Army - Dover NH  December 9, 1947 - June 8, 1968

SP4 Robert Gene Galbreath: US Army - Winchester NH  March 25, 1952 - February 25, 1972

PFC Ernest Ulric Gamelin Jr. : US Army - Suncook NH  November 3, 1948 - December 23, 1968

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Owen Ganley: US Air Force - Keene NH  September 22, 1940 - June 29, 1978

PFC DavidErnest Gardner: US Army - Walpole NH  May 29, 1948 - December 11, 1968

Sergeant Robert Louis Gardner: US Army - Nashua NH  July 1, 1922 - June 13, 1962

Petty Officer 3 Thomas Wilfred Gaudet: US Navy - Salem NH  July 20, 1947 - April 21, 1969

1st Lieutenant Michael LewisGeister : US Army - Rye NH             Feb 17, 1946 - March 16. 1960

Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Armand Roger Gelinas: US Army - Manchester NH  January 3, 1928 - October 11, 1967

Staff Sergeant Richard Edgar Genest: US Army - Manchester NH  August 7, 1945 - August 26, 1969

PFC Yvon Eldmond Girouard: US Marine Corps-Littleton NH  April 1, 1949 - May 23, 1969

Sergeant Richard Gerald Godbout: US Army - Manchester NH  January 11, 1948 - December 30, 1967

Warrant Officer Barry William Godfrey: US Army - Pelham NH  February 10, 1950 - August 25, 1970

PFC Verne Milton Greeley: US Marine Corps - Derry NH  September  11, 1947 - July 6, 1967

Nephew to State Senator Jack Barnes - Sponsor of SB-182 to Establish the NH State Veterans Cemetery. 

Petty Officer 2 -  Eliot Franklin Guild: US Marine Corps - Winchester NH  September 16, 1946 - January 20, 1968

 On 01 Nov 1967 the 3rd Bn, 3rd Marines were based at the C-2 Bridge but were responsible for securing an area which included the road linking Con Thien (Hill 158) and Cam Lo. India Company was positioned west-southwest of the C-2 Bridge itself. At noontime India 3/3 spotted 15 North Vietnamese soldiers moving toward Thon Bai An, a largely destroyed hamlet about 4 kilometers south of Con Thien. The Marines moved forward and established an ambush. By 1230 India was in contact with what appeared to be a reinforced NVA platoon. Air and artillery support was called in, and Lima 3/3 was sent to help. Lima moved through India's positions and engaged the NVA in the village itself. By 1600 contact had been broken; the surviving NVA had withdrawn to the northwest and the Marines to the C-2 Bridge area. Six Marines and one Navy Corpsman had been killed in the fight; one Marine was missing; and 32 others were wounded, some seriously. The following day the India Marines returned to the contact area and recovered the body of the missing Marine as well as the bodies of 12 North Vietnamese soldiers. Almost three months later, on 20 Jan 1968, the cost of the fight increased: Navy Corpsman Eliot Guild, wounded on 01 Nov, died of his injuries.

Staff Sergeant Robert Frederick Haines: US Army - Loudon NH  December 21, 1942 - August 27, 1967

A1C Richard Lee Halgren : US Air Force - Nashua NH  June 4, 1946 - September 24, 1968

Staff Sergeant Kenneth Robert Hall: US Marine Corps - Keene NH  May 28, 1935 - April 24, 1966

Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Walter Hall: US Army - Nashua NH  June 17, 1926 - June 24, 1968

Staff Sergeant Eugene Howard Harriman: US Army - West Franklin NH  February 13, 1936 - December 23, 1967

Lance Corporal Richard Kenefick Harvell: US Marine Corps - Bedford NH  December 17, 1947 - September 29, 1967

Corporal Yvon Andre Hebert: US Army - Stratford NH  October 2, 1946 - January 17, 1967

Master Gunnery Sergeant Carroll Franklin Hersey: US Marines - Wolfeboro NH  May 13, 1928 - May 18, 1969

SP4 David Wayne Hildreth: US Army - Warren NH  September 19, 1949 - April 14, 1969

PFC Barry Malcolm Hillsgrove - US Army - Dover NH    February 22, 1947 - March 30, 1968

1st Lieutenant John Lawrence Hogan: US Army - Exeter NH  December 29, 1947 - March 28, 1971

Staff Sergeant Ralph Arthur Howard: US Army - Hillsborough NH  August 13, 1948 - February 10, 1970

PFC Jay Allen Hurd: US Army - Laconia NH  January 18, 1947 - September 1, 1966

Lance Corporal Frank Alan Indyk: US Army - Raymond NH  June 22, 1949 - December 15, 1967

SP4 Stephen Dyer Jewett: US Marines - East Andover NH  December 14, 1942 - December 27, 1965

SP4 Richard Bruce Johnston: US Army - Candia NH  January 11, 1946 - June 22, 1967

PFC Kenneth Bradley Jordan: US Marines - Twin Mountain NH  March 25, 1948 - March 27, 1967

The Kenneth Bradley Jordan Memorial Bridge

By Jeff Woodburn

Each spring, the North Country comes alive. Few are more ready for this change than high school seniors, who are edging toward graduation, freedom and adulthood. In May of 1966, three Whitefield high school buddies - David Glidden, Butch Rexford and Ken Jordan - missed a day of school to go to Concord. It was a place they had likely never been before. The one-hundred mile trek south to Concord was a long trip back then. The U.S. Marine recruiter, who drove them, would have followed Route 3 through a dozen or so towns before reaching the highway, and, this, would have given them plenty of time to think about their future or at least weigh the ramifications of their decision to go to war. "We understood the risks," Glidden said, "We figured it was our duty." After a battery of tests, it became clear one of them was not going. Rexford was deemed ineligible to serve because of a health condition. In January, after basic training, Glidden and Jordan were off to Vietnam and on Easter Sunday, the day after his 19th birthday, Jordan stepped on a land mine and died two days later.

Kenneth Bradley Jordan had always wanted to be a Marine. His mother, Olga, better known as Gay, had been a marine in World War Two, and his father, Maurice, who everyone called "Bud," served in the army. The Jordan's owned a Sunoco gas station and a few tourist cabins along Route 3 just south of the Route 302 intersection in Twin Mountain. Bill Houghton, a neighbor of the Jordans, remembers an occasion when he was home on leave from Korea. He was sporting his Marine uniform, when young Jordan, who was 7-8 years old at the time, approached him with the news that he too was going to be a marine someday.

Growing up, Jordan seemed wise and mature beyond his age. Mary Young, his teacher and neighbor, recalls a junior high school field trip to Cannon Mountain that turned problematic when the single chaperon suffered a concussion. Young was forced to take the adult to the hospital and left Jordan in charge giving him the key to the Twin Mountain School. "He was nice," she said, "always smiling." At Ninth grade, Twin Mountain students transferred to Whitefield High School, where local students had formed bounds over eight years of schooling. But Jordan, with a warm personality quickly made new friends and became a popular addition to his new school. Rexford and Jordan became fast friends enjoying their time in the woods together."He was the best friend I ever had," said Rexford, "He went out of his way to help others...always focused on others."

Jordan's personality was not only infectious, but his interest and abilities seemed all inclusive. He was a skilled athlete -- playing baseball, basketball and running track. He was also active in the Boy Scouts and theatre. In a very short time, he won the loyalty of his classmates by being chosen President of his class, a rare fete for non-Whitefield resident. His high school noted that he was chosen by his classmates as both the most energetic and cooperative student.

Between basic training and leaving for Vietnam, Jordan returned home to the North Country for a twenty day furlough. While visiting with his friend and fellow classmate, David Astle, Jordan made a strange, yet prophetic announcement. "Ken told me, 'I'm not coming back,' Astle said. Such a statement was not uncommon, warns Glidden, who said, he'd probably said the same thing himself. He attributed it to the aggressive training and preparation to get men ready for combat. "It was complete harassment one-hundred percent of the time," he said of the training, but even that wasn't adequate preparation for the horrors of Vietnam.

It could have been more too. This war was not going well, the enemy's guerilla warfare proved difficult to penetrate, our own political resolve was beginning to weaken and, by 1967, the casualties were ticking up rapidly. Tom Gage, then Whitefield's police chief and Korean War veteran, caught the growing distinction between World War Two and other wars, when he said, "Vietnam, like Korea, wasn't a favorite for anybody." One of the regular tasks of the Marines was to continue to capture enemy territory. "The Marine's always go in first," Glidden added. "It was a very delicate" task that they called "wipe-ing" he said, "The foliage was thick, jungle like" and you had to be alert to enemy attack as well as the presence of landmines. The key was to be totally attentive to your surroundings, and "only step in untouched soil." He credits his years in the woods hunting with saving him from death, but in the final analysis it was more about fate than anything else.

On his sixty-eighth day in Vietnam, Jordan was somewhere in South Vietnam penetrating enemy grounds, when his foot hit a six inch box landmine. The injuries were severe, but he lingered for two days in a hospital before dying. Glidden, who was in North Vietnam at the time, got the news of his friend's death from his squad leader. He was told that it was his job to escort Jordan's body home to New Hampshire. "I couldn't believe Kenny was gone," he said, "Until this day, I still don't."

Small towns experience and feel pain more broadly than most places probably because there is no refuge from it. Everyone knows, and cares. This was especially true with the news of the death of young Kenny Jordan fanned out across the North Country. Jordan's friends remember exactly where they were when they learned the fateful news, and the accompanying sense of shock and disbelief. Jordan's parents personally informed their son's closest friends and asked them to be honorary pall-bearers for his funeral. "The whole town was in a state of shock. It brought the war home in a very personal way." Rexford, one of the pall-bearers, said, "I was angry, but I never doubted the rightness of the war." Astle, who was also a pall-bearers, said the "area took it pretty hard. He was one person that it shouldn't have happened to." The reach of this tragedy touched many people, well beyond his immediate peers. Steve Canton, who was a few years younger, had long admired Jordan. "It hit me real, real hard," he said, "I remember my mother calling up to me and telling me the news." A few years later, Canton himself joined the Marines and went off to Vietnam and, he said, "The basic reason was because of Kenny."

Jordan was laid to rest with a full military funeral at Twin Mountain's St. Patrick's Church. Over 500 mourners - nearly twice the town's population - filled the stone church and spilled outside.

Even today, some forty-two years later, the reaction of a dozen or so of Jordan's friends follow a similar pattern. First, there is caution and a measured restraint holding back a flood of emotions, and in time, the personal stories slip out as a reminder that a person's life is measured not by how they die, but how they lived. The stories often describe tender moments of kindness and selflessness that rarely mark an adolescent males developing personality. The pain of the fateful news still haunts them and, for some, it was an abrupt end of innocence that seemed to mark their idyllic childhood. Others are bitter. Glidden, the young man that enlisted with him and escorted his body home, said, "Kenny lost his life for nothing," while noting that U.S. pulled out of Vietnam and achieved none of its original objectives.

In 2004, Canton, then a supervisor at the state's Department of Transportation, couldn't shake the feeling that his fallen friend deserved some kind of a memorial. Then it hit him that a proper tribute would be to name one of Twin Mountain's bridges. So, after several months of building broad community support, legislation was filed to dedicate an un-named bridge that spans the Ammonoosuc River along Route 3. Today, the Kenneth Bradley Jordan Bridge stands within eye shot of the church where his funeral was held and a short distance from his childhood home and the cemetery where he was interred. And, although Route 3 has been reconstructed - raised, widened and straightened - it is the same route that took the three young men to Concord in the spring of 1966, full of dreams of the future and also took one of them home much too soon.

HN (Hospitalman) William Arthur Joy: US Marines - Manchester NH  December 3, 1947 - August 11, 1968

Lance Corporal William Clyde Joy: US Marines - Epsom NH  August 15, 1950 - September 17, 1969

Private George Edward Joyce: US Army - Portsmouth NH  September 15, 1943 - December 5, 1965

1st Lieutenant Howard Walker Kaiser: US Air Force - Chesterfield NH  March 25, 1941 - September 13, 1966

Petty Officer 3 Ronald Norman Keller: US Navy - Exeter NH  February 16, 1948 - February  9, 1968

1st Lieutenant Verne Carl Kelley: US Army - East Barrington NH  February 14, 1942 - February 12, 1969

Corporal Benjamin Albert Kenison: US Marine Corps - Jefferson NH  April 2, 1946 - September 16, 1966

PFC Stanley Roy Kilton Jr. : US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  March 25, 1948 - June 28, 1968

SP4 Edward George Kiluk Jr. : US Army - Pelham NH  January 16, 1949 - July 24, 1970

Sergeant Robert Luis Knight Jr. : US Army - Bennington NH  May 9, 1948 - April 11, 1969

Staff Sergeant Czeslaw Kowalczyk: US Army - Nashua NH  March 3, 1926 - December 5, 1965

Chief Warrant Officer David Alan Kreitzer: US Army - Laconia NH  April 20, 1946 - December 2, 1967

Captain Roland Charles Labonte: US Army - Nashua NH  July 28, 1935 - April 19, 1969

PFC Russell Thomas La Fave: US Army - Manchester NH  August 13, 1951 - April 1, 1970

Private Ernest Albert Laroche: US Marines - West Franklin NH  April 17, 1947 - February 26, 1966

Major John Winslow Lawrence Jr. : US Army - Farmington NH  January 22, 1938 - September 16, 1971

FARMINGTON — The Route 153 bridge over the Cocheco River in Farmington has been renamed in honor of two-time Silver Star recipient and Vietnam War veteran John Winslow Lawrence Jr.

Gov. Chris Sununu signed the bill dedicating the bridge in Lawrence’s honor, House Bill 1278, during a signing ceremony in Concord on Monday morning. The honor is a posthumous one, as the Army major and Farmington native was killed at the age of 33 during his second tour in Vietnam in 1971.

"We owe our veterans a great debt of gratitude," Sununu said in a written statement. "Major Lawrence served his state and his nation with honor and distinction, and I couldn't think of anything more fitting than to forever memorialize his sacrifice in his hometown of Farmington."

Lawrence was a captain when he received his first Silver Star. As a part of Operation Cedar Falls during his first tour in 1967, the 1956 Farmington High School graduate earned the honor for single-handedly capturing a substantial weapons cache, according to his obituary.

The second Silver Star was awarded posthumously following Lawrence’s second tour. In 1971, Lawrence was killed while leading an ad hoc rescue unit that was ambushed during its efforts to save another ambushed unit. According to his obituary, Lawrence was instrumental in leading the ultimately successful counterattack before he was killed by the ambushing Viet Cong forces.

State Rep. Herbert Richardson, R-Lancaster, was the primary sponsor of HB 1278, which also named a Colebrook rest stop in honor of Frederick W. King Sr. 

2nd Lieutenant Daniel Michael Leahy: US Army - Manchester NH  October 23, 1945 - April 19, 1969

1st Lieutenant John F Lee: US Army - Newport NH  January 29, 1941 - July 6, 1966

Lance Corporal Paul Raymond Le Houllier: US Marine Corps - Somersworth NH  September 26, 1947 - April 5, 1969

SP4 Gregory A Leighton: US Army - Exeter NH  December 4, 1943 - September 6, 1966

PFC Richard Edward Letendre: US Army - Nashua NH  October 30, 1948 - October 5, 1968

Lance Corporal William Nicholas Loomis: US Marine Corps - Salem NH  January 15, 1949 - September 13, 1967

SP4 Dennis Franklin Lorden: US Army - Nashua NH  September 21, 1948 - July 14, 1969

PFC Norman Gerard Lozeau: US Army - Manchester NH  April 27, 1947 - March 9, 1967

Sergeant William Arthur Malenfant: US Army - Nashua NH  October 27, 1947 - January 15, 1971

PFC Robert Bernard Mann: US Army - Salem NH  July 2, 1944 - July 11, 1966

Lance Corporal Andre Edward Marcotte: US Marine Corps - Rye NH  December 6, 1948 - July 1, 1967

Corporal Sotorios Milton Margaritis: US Marine Corps - Raymond NH  September 1, 1946 - August 8, 1967

Lance Corporal Dennis Hardie Marshall: US Marine Corps - Lisbon NH  July 17, 1946 - September 7, 1967

Major Lawrence Jay Marshall: US Air Force - Manchester NH  January 28, 1929 - December 27, 1972

PFC Normand Richard Martel: US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  April 26, 1945 - May 3, 1967

Captain Steven Wayne Martin: US Marine Corps - Wolfeboro NH  November 2, 1943 - October 11, 1968

Sergeant Roger James McAllister Jr.: US Army - Milford NH  September 6, 1940 - May 9, 1965

Sergeant Michael Thomas McGlone: US Army - Dover NH  February 13, 1950 - September 11, 1969

PFC John Winchester McGuire: US Army - Derry NH  November 4, 1943 - February 3, 1968

Major James Patrick McKeon: US Air Force - Nashua NH  February 13, 1933 - February 13, 1969

Sergeant Thomas Michael: US Army - Dover NH  February 13, 1949 - March 28, 1969

Warrant Officer William Michael Miller: US Army - Keene NH  July 22, 1947 - September 15, 1968

Lance Corporal Larry Joseph Milot: US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  September 25, 1947 - April 2, 1968

Corporal Thomas Joseph Morrisey: US Marine Corps - Dover NH  August 22, 1948 - June  5, 1968

1st Lieutenant Peter Whitcomb Morrison: US Air Force - Laconia NH  December 29, 1942 - June 9, 1967

PFC Arthur C Mourtgis Jr.: US Army - Manchester NH  January 7, 1948 - May 15, 1967

SFC Raymond C Mroczynski: US Army - Manchester NH  August 11, 1940 - February 26, 1969

Lance Corporal Walter Aleck Murzin: US Marine Corps - Concord NH  May 17, 1946 - October 2, 1966

PFC Charles Edmond Muzzey: US Marine Corps - Enfield NH  July 23, 1947 - January 9, 1968

PFC PaulErnest Nadeau: US Army - Manchester NH  April 19, 1932 - September 4, 1966

SP4 ThomasDennis Nadeau: US Army - Nashua NH  December 27, 1948 - August 11, 1968

SP4 Leonard King Nute: US Army - Hudson NH  December 12, 1946 - May 25, 1967

SP4 Ronald Leon Olson: US Army - Concord NH  March 20, 1949 - November 24, 1969

SP4 William Wayne O'Neil: US Army - Chesterfield NH  October 11, 1949 - January 21, 1970

Staff Sergeant Thomas Philip O'Neil: US Marine Corps - Dover NH  April 16, 1942 - March 14, 1970

PFC Raymond Louis Paradis: US Army - Nashua NH  June 24, 1948 - May 9, 1970

PFC Ernest George Paul: US Marine Corps - Concord NH  June 10, 1943 - May 29, 1966

Sergeant William Roy Pearson: US Air Force - Warner NH  April 18, 1951 - April 6, 1972

Staff Sergeant Richard William Pelletier: US Army - Greenville NH  December 16, 1949 - March 24, 1969

SP5 David B Perreault: US Army - Franklin NH  June 18, 1946 - October 3, 1968

Private Steven Jay Philbrick: US Marine Corps - Hampton NH  October 4, 1949 - June 6, 1969

PFC Jerry Dean Pillsbury : US Marine Corps- Grantham NH  January 17, 1947 - September 25, 1966

Corporal Robert James Plourde: US Army - Laconia NH  February 2, 1949 - March 28, 1968

SP4 Karl Dennis Porter: US Army - Manchester NH  June 16, 1951 - January 29, 1972

Lance Corporal Richard Charles Porter: US Marine Corps - Hanover NH  September 28, 1949 - January 24, 1971

SP4 Philip Avery Pratt: US Army - Fremont NH  April 20, 1948 - May 31, 1969

PFC Wayne Thomas Provencher: US Army - Concord NH  June 19, 1949 - May 10, 1968

Lance Corporal Lawrence Robert Raymond: US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  September 23, 1948 - March 24, 1968

SFC Richard Paul Raymond: US Army - Manchester NH  December 5, 1941 - August 26, 1969

Staff Sergeant Joseph Andrew Rayno: US Army - Franklin NH  January 31, 1940 - December 29, 1966

SP4 Michael P Ribich: US Army - Great Falls / Somersworth NH  November 8, 1947 - October 6, 1979

Petty Officer 3 George William Riordan: US Marine Corps - Dover NH  June 23, 1948 - March 14, 1968

SP4 Richard Norman Rivard: US Army - Merrimack NH  June 10, 1946 - April 15, 1968

Sergeant Ronald D Roach: US Army - Concord NH  September 25, 1947 - February 12, 1968

SFC Edmund Edward Roberge: US Army - Manchester NH  July 3, 1932 - March 16, 1971

Sergeant Roger Edward Robichaud: US Army - Manchester NH  July 1, 1945 - August 26, 1969

PFC Wilfred Roland Robillard: US Army - Manchester NH  February 26, 1947 - October 10, 1965

Staff Sergeant Joseph Robert Robinson: US Marine Corps - Dover NH  May 12, 1938 - March 28, 1967

SP4 Robert Quentin Roentsch: US Army - Walpople NH  February 14, 1946 - February 19, 1966

SP4 Everett Porter Runnells: US Army - Concord NH  January 14, 1946 - August 27, 1966

1st Lieutenant Alfred Bayard Russ: US Marines - Hancock NH  January 13, 1943 - January 13, 1968

PFC Thomas John Saltmarsh: US Army - Concord NH  February 19, 1949 - March 14, 1968

1st Sergeant Bradley Elliott Sandford: US Army - Portsmouth NH  September 19, 1923 - December 27, 1970

Lance Corporal Steven Craig Santy: US Marine Corps - Belmont NH  December 13, 1949 - July 14, 1968

Petty Officer 3 Ernest Eugene Sanville: US Navy - North Hinsdale NH  November 14, 1943 - August 31, 1968

PFC Michael Jorn Saunders: US Army - Penacook NH  January 13, 1947 - December 10, 1967

Corporal James Everett Sawyer Jr. : US Army - Laconia NH  November 18, 1947 - June 44, 1969

Sergeant Robert William Sawyer: US Army - Manchester NH  April 4, 1949 - August 23, 1968

Chief Warrant Officer James Edward Schunemann: US Army - Manchester NH  January 9, 1948 - March 20, 1970

SP4 Robert Peter Scibilia: US Army - Nashua NH  March 9, 1948 - May 23, 1969

Sergeant Major John Senechek: US Army - Manchester NH  March 18, 1919 - September 16, 1971

Chief Warrant Officer Gerald Calvin Seybold: US Marine Corps - Concord NH  June 3, 1934 - April 28, 1971

Lance Corporal Frank Joseph Sharek Jr. : US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  April 28, 1947 - July 23, 1968

PFC Robert Ernest Shaw: US Marine Corps - North Hampton NH  October 10, 1947 - March 31, 1969

Gary Roy Smith SP4 - US Army Laconia NH :

February 22, 1949 - April 27, 1969

Major Murray Lawrence Smith: US Air Force - Hampton Beach NH  May 23, 1933 - December 21, 1967

SP4 Douglas Stewart Souther Jr. : US Army - Seabrook NH  January 30, 1949 - April 7, 1969

Corporal Raymond Ernest Stanley: US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  February 17, 1947 - April 30, 1968

Sergeant John Clifton Steer: US Army - Kingston NH  March 22, 1947 - October 31, 1967

Lanced Corporal Harold Kenneth Stevens Jr. : US Marine Corps - Keene NH  March 26, 1943 - June 8, 1965

Warrant Officer Douglas Earl Stover: US Army - Concord NH  January 1, 1947 - March 26, 1969

Corporal Michael Lawrence Succi: US Marines - Portsmouth NH  August 7, 1947 - March 14, 1968

Chief Petty Officer Allan Francis Sullivan: US Navy - Loudon NH  June 10, 1929 - February 23, 1968

MSG Robert Joseph Sullivan (MIA): US Army - East Alstead NH 

November 19, 1936 - July 12, 1967

PFC Terrence Colin Sullivan: US Army - Berlin NH 

April 8, 1947 - May 20, 1967

2ns Lieutenant Michael Bernard Sweeney: US Army - Keene NH  November 4, 1946 - December 24, 1967

PFC Eugene Frederick Sweet Jr.: US Army - Portsmouth NH  July 7, 1949 - January 4, 1968

Captain Armand Alvin Sylvestre: US Army - Nashua NH  May 11, 1936 - July 15, 1968

SP4 Winston Adams Taggart: US Army - Manchester NH  June 13, 1947 - December 19, 1967

Captain Lucien Charles Tessier: US Marine Corps - Manchester NH  December 23, 1944 - September 19, 1968

Master Sergeant Samuel Silver Theriault: US Army - Rochester NH  January 6, 1934 - November 27, 1967

Corporal Robert Paul Titcomb: US Army - Farmington NH  September 28, 1948 - September 9, 1969

Corporal Chester Towle: US Army - Concord NH 

July 29, 1942 - May 24, 1969

Staff Sergeant John A Townsend Jr. : US Army - Manchester NH  August 10, 1930 - December 4, 1968

Captain Raymond L Trudeau: US Army - Durham NH  October 2, 1939 - July 24, 1966

PFC Dennis Nick Vatistas: US Army - Dover NH 

July 12, 1949 - December 22, 1970

Corporal Thomas Joseph Vezeau: US Marine Corps - Derry NH  June 22, 1951 - February 25, 1970

PFC Alfred Viel: US Army - Dover NH 

October 27, 1947 - December 22, 1968

Corporal Joseph George Villiard: US Army - Manchester NH  March 7, 1935 - March 24, 1966

PFC Alexander George Wainio: US Marine Corps - Troy NH  October 19, 1948 - May 26, 1967 ( Hill 881)

SP6 John Raymond Walker: US Army - Rochester NH  November 29, 1945 - March 20, 1972

PFC David Howard Weller: US Marine Corps - Nashua NH  June  15, 1947 - June 2, 1967

PFC Gary Norman Whipple: US Army - Claremont NH  November 12, 1948 - December 4, 1968

Corporal Robert Frederick White: US Marine Corps - Newmarket NH  December 9, 1939 - August 18, 1967

PFC Terry James Whittaker: US Marine Corps - Newport NH  March 17, 1947 - April 9, 1967

Terry was son of Betty L. Parizo, stepson of Lawrence O. Parizo; the son of Henry J. Whittaker; dear brother of Dennis and Kevin Whittaker all of Newport New Hampshire. Terry enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on May 31 1966 in Manchester, and in Vietnam he was assigned to and served with Company B, 3d AMTRAC Battalion, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF.

On April 8 a squad from the 2d Battalion, 7th Marines were providing security for some Vietnamese villagers that were clearing fields and cutting bamboo southwest of Hill 10 and the Tien Dao village complex in the Binh Son District in Quang Ngai Province when an explosion occurred. An LVT (Landing Vehicle Track) in support, returning from a short range recon detonated a suspected 155mm artillery round which was rigged as a mine. The vehicle caught fire and was destroyed, one man was killed and several men were wounded, three died from their wounds. One of the casualties was PFC Whittaker, evacuated to the Station Hospital NSA in Da Nang he died the next day from the wounds he has sustained.

Lance Corporal Jonathan Charles Whitticom: US Marine Corps - Laconia NH  July 13, 1947 - June 27, 1967

PFC William Wilkowsky Jr. : US Army - Nashua NH 

October 1, 1945 - April 30, 1966

Sergeant Thomas Alan Willard: US Army - Farmington NH  December 27, 1948 - June 18, 1969

Sergeant First Class Alden Bertram Willey: US Army - Campton NH  November 11, 1933 - March 27, 1966

Missing in Action - MIA

Technical Sergeant Clyde Douglas Alloway: US Air Force - Portsmouth NH  October 18, 1937 - June 6, 1970

Staff Sergeant Frank Neil Badolati: US Army - Goffstown NH  March 19, 1933 - January 29, 1966

Colonel Sheldon John Burnett: US Army - Pelham NH 

June 9, 1931 - May 29, 1979

(Body Returned to US)

Colonel Robert Helmich: US Air Force - Manchester NH  November 17, 1931 - September 1, 1978

SP4 Quinten Emile Mulleavey: US Army - North Woodstock NH  December 16, 1948 - April 3, 1968

Major Albert Linwood Page Jr. : US Air Force - Derry NH  June 28, 1935 - May 28, 1974

Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Joseph Stickney : US Air Force - Manchester NH  December 23, 1937 - June 25, 1974 (Body Returned to US)

Master Sergeant Joseph Sullivan : US Army - East Alstead NH  November 19, 1936 - July 12, 1967