JohnG
Registered: 07/12/08
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Hello Former members of 1/4.
I am John Gillespie, Sgt. USMC (ret). I served two and one half tours in Vietnam with Alpha 1/1, Echo 2/3 and 1st Combined Action Group. I enlisted on the buddy plan with my best friend Bill Plum in March 1965 but he failed the written entrance test so I went to San Diego alone. The recruiter in Flint, Michigan gave him a second chance and he got in the back door as a reservist. He converted to active duty after boot camp in PI.
Bill joined Alpha 1/4 in the Chu-lai area on 3 February 1966 and was KIA on 26 February. I have a letter he wrote to me just a few days before he died. I noted the 1/4 casualty listing shows several WIA's in Alpha Company on the same day including Lt. Connere, Pfc. Quinlan and Lcpl. Wandmacher. I have long wanted to know the circumstances of how my friend Bill died. I have attached a newspaper clipping and high school picture of Bill to this post. If anyone out there has any info, please e-mail me at jcg148@ verizon.net.
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