Carl Barry Mcgee

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12 Mar 2006 Dear Lt. McGee, I did not know you but I had been out with Charlie Company on patrols and had several good friends in it. I recently found Captain Knight's things and bought them and in them was a great photo of you. I can't imagine that West Point hasn't gone back and made sure that every graduate who was a KIA hasn't been added to this site yet. You were graduate number 28264 in the class of 1969 and I wish I had a later book than 1970 as I am sure it would show your decorations which I do not know. I wish you could have made it with the rest of us so you could have lived a long and happy life but God must have had a need for you that day. I don't think there is anyone who doubted your bravery or the bravery of the man shaking your hand, Captain Richard Vincent Knight, also Killed In Action on Mary Ann that night. I'm sorry to say I don't know who the other soldier is. I ended up where you started, with Recon 1/46th as a Squad Leader and am doing what I can to see to it that you guys don't get forgotten. God Bless you and your family, Lt. McGee. Larry M. Pistole Squad Leader, Echo Recon 1st of the 46th, 196th LIB 23rd Infantry Division 1971 flytiger@bealenet.com

A Note from The Virtual Wall On the night of 27/28 March 1971 Fire Support Base (FSB) Mary Ann was occupied by 209 Americans from several units of the Americal Division: HHC 1/46th Infantry; C Co 1/46th Infantry; a Recon Platoon; elements of a Mortar Platoon; two 155mm howitzer sections, 3/16th Arty; and twenty ARVN artillerymen. At approximately 0230 hours, 28 March 1971, the VC mounted a coordinated mortar and sapper attack. Almost simultaneously with the mortar attack, sappers employed satchel charges and rocket propelled grenades (RPG) to penetrate the south side of the FSB's perimeter. Americans in the perimeter bunkers hunkered down until the explosions from the mortar rounds, satchel charges, and RPGs had subsided, but by then the sappers had breached the trench line and were inside the base. Once inside FSB Mary Ann, the sappers struck over half the bunkers. By the time the VC withdrew, 30 American soldiers were dead and 76 wounded - sadly, 12 of the 30 dead were killed by friendly fire brought down to force the VC from the over-run areas of the base. The dead were B Btry, 1st Bn, 14th Arty Rgt (FO w/ C/1/46 Inf) 1LT John L. Hogan, Exeter, NH C Btry, 3rd Bn, 16th Arty Rgt SGT Clifford W. Corr, Viola, KS SP4 Larry D. Austin, Des Moines, IA CPL Donald C. Bennett, New Lexington, OH CPL William W. Kirkpatrick, Torrance, CA SP4 Roger D. Whirlow, Odessa, TX A Co, 1st Bn, 46th Inf Rgt SGT Michael J. Bayne, Phoenix, AZ SGT Larry W. McKee, Delaware, OH C Co, 1st Bn, 46th Inf Rgt CPT Richard V. Knight, Ormond Beach, FL 1LT Carl B. McGee, Detroit, MI SSG Terry H. Price, Salt Lake City, UT SSG Warren P. Ritsema, Fremont, MI SGT Ronald J. Becksted, Cleveland, OH SGT Richard J. Boehm, Mandan, ND SGT Richard R. Carson, Tuscola, IL SGT Michael L. Crossley, Houston, TX SGT Myron B. Johnson, Mandaree, ND SGT Robert J. Schumacher, Lebanon, OR SP4 Victor R. Bennett, Haskins, OH SP4 James E. Edgemon, Bellevue, TX CPL Druey L. Hatfield, Lorado, WV CPL Michael S. Holloway, Wyoming, MI CPL Dallas D. Robinson, Trade, TN CPL Paul A. Sheer, Lakeview, OR SP4 Donald M. Stotts, Fenton, MI PFC Laymon Palmer, Little Rock, AR PFC Clark V. Shawnee, Lawton, OK PVT Steven D. Plath, St Louis Park, MN HHC, 1st Bn, 46th Inf Rgt SP5 Kyle S. Hamilton, St Paul, VA PFC Wilbert S. Dupree, Jamaica, NY

The point-of-contact for this memorial is a fellow soldier, Larry M. Pistole flytiger@bealenet.com 12 Mar 2006

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