Thomas Warren Roberts
Specialist Four
A CO, 1ST BN, 5TH INFANTRY, 25TH INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Belpre, Ohio
April 23, 1944 to September 11, 1968
THOMAS W ROBERTS is on the Wall at Panel W44, Line 28

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A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 11 Sep 1968 Companies A and C of the 1st Bn, 5th Infantry, were in night defensive positions in the vicinity of the Ben Cui airstrip, with A Co about 300 meters west of the airstrip and C Co about a kilometer southeast of A Co. At about 0430 an enemy force attacked first A Company and an hour later C Company as well. Two additional companies - B/1/5 Infantry and A/3/22 Infantry - were inserted by air and the combined force began a sweep of the area. Intelligence estimates based on the enemy bodies and gear left on the battlefields suggested that the early morning attacks on A and C Companies had been mounted by a battalion-sized force. Three Americans were killed and 20 others wounded in the action. The three dead were from A Company, 1/5 Infantry:

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