Myron Stanley Beach, Jr

The database page for Myron Stanley Beach, Jr

3 Mar 2005 Myron and I served together with the 5th Special Forces on an "A" team in Tan Phu 1963-64. He taught me as the kid on the team, the finesse of pinochle and cigars. He was a true born leader and loved the Airborne. He left SF because he always wanted to be a squad leader in combat. He achieved it with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. He left a wife and two children. Butch and I had a great time together on our first tour and I will never forget him. My children presented me a few years back with the "Veteran at the Wall" drawing dedicated to Myron. It hangs proudly in the entranceway of my home. He is also remembered with a plaque at my VFW hall in Calabash, NC. God rest my cigar chomping buddy. Ray Ketcham

A Note from The Virtual Wall The 4/503rd was rapidly deployed to the Central Highlands after the Battle of the Slopes. On 10 July, moving up Hill 830, A Company came under intense fire from an entrenched Viet Cong main force battalion. On 12 July, after taking the hill, D Company discovered a single network consisting of 60 bunkers with supporting foxholes. In short order, two more bunker complexes were discovered. The fighting on 10 July cost 25 American lives; eleven of the dead were from A Company, 4/503rd: 1LT Daniel W. Jordan, Griffith, IN (Dist Svc Cross) SFC Myron S. Beach, Elmira, NY SGT David P. Crozier, Baltimore, MD SGT William J. Deuerling, New Smyrna Beach, FL SP4 Roger W. Clark, Pittsfield, VT SP4 Arthur A. Erwin, Eugene, OR SP4 Oris L. Poole, Screven, GA SP4 Walter A. Samans, Richmond, VA SP4 Franklin S. Shepherd, North Wilkesboro, NC PFC John C. Borowski, Chicago, IL (Dist Svc Cross) PFC David H. Johnson, Jonesboro, AR

The point-of-contact for this memorial is a friend and service member with 5th SF, Ray Ketcham ketchray@atmc.net  4 Mar 2005

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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Last updated 03/04/2005