Memorials - 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry
Mobile Riverine Force - Mekong Delta
Lt. General William B. Fulton - 2nd Brigade Commander
Casualties List By Company:
Battalion Headquarters Alpha Company Bravo Company Charlie Company
Delta Company Echo Company
248 brave 4th/47th Soldiers heeded our nation's call
to fight the spread of communism and they gave the
ultimate sacrifice. . . .
The Young Dead Soldiers....
The young dead soldiers do not speak. Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses.....who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night and when the clock counts.
They say.....We were young. We have died. Remember us.
They say.....We have done what we could. But until it is finished, it is not done.
They say.....We have given our lives. But until it is finished, no one can tell what our lives gave.
They say.....Our deaths are not ours. They are yours. They will mean what you make them.
They say..... Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new hope, or for nothing, we cannot say. It is you that must say this.
They say.....We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning. Give them an end to the war and a true peace. Give them a victory that ends the war and a peace afterwards. Give them their meaning.
We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us.
Archibald MacLeish - 1892
On June 19, 1967, near Ap Bac Village - Gia Dinh
Province, 48 gallant U.S. soldiers were lost and many
more were wounded. 250 enemy soldiers perished.
5 U.S. soldiers lost their lives in a Long An Province
rice paddy July 11, 1967, as C Company troopers
were pinned down battling entrenched Viet Cong.
As Bravo Company troopers battled elusive Viet Cong
guerrilla fighters March 7-8, 1968, in Kien Tuong
Province, 10 U.S. soldiers lost their lives. . .
During a clash on April 4-5, 1968, in the Viet Cong
infested Dinh Tuong Province, 13 U.S. soldiers gave
the ultimate sacrifice. . .
On August 12-13, 1968, 16 U.S. soldiers were killed
in action battling Viet Cong forces in the Mekong
Delta's Long An Province.
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