Albert Leon Betts

Specialist Five
544TH SIG DET, 362ND SIG CO, 21ST SIG GRP, 1 SIG BDE
Army of the United States
03 January 1942 - 02 February 1968
Baltimore, Maryland
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1 SIG BDE

37TH SIG BN 		Albert L Betts

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for Albert Leon Betts

31 Jan 2004

Leon --
You were such a young man when you left us ----
Thanks

From a cousin,
Bernard W. Ralph Jr
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A Note from The Virtual Wall

The 544th Signal Detachment was a troposcatter radio unit located at the Khe Sanh Combat Base to provide long-haul communications for the base. In January Khe Sanh came under heavy attacks by NVA forces coming across the nearby Laotian border, and by February in effect was cut off and under siege. Mortar, rocket, and artillery bombardments were daily events and caused considerable harm to the units at Khe Sanh.

On 02 Feb 1968 the 544th Signal Det lost four men to the bombardment:

  • 1LT Rodney A. Alfano, Malden, MA;
  • SP5 Albert L. Betts, Baltimore, MD;
  • SP4 Leon F. Huber, St Augustine, FL; and
  • SP4 Steven L. Raney, Swan, IA.


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 1 Feb 2004


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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
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