They Marched Into Sunlight (95 page)

Allen, Bebe

Allen, Consuelo: family informed of father’s death; at father’s wake; grandfather gives combat booklets to; on grandmother as military wife; as image of her father; naming of; at “November Nightmare,”; at place where her father died; in Vietnam

Allen, Jean Ponder

Allen, Mary Frances

Allen, Samuel E.

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, Jr.; becomes Black Lions’ commander; Cash’s investigation into death of; in Colorado Springs; death of; disillusionment with military; drinking by; emergency leave in June 1967; father Terry Allen, Sr.; funeral of; in Germany; and Hay; his officers respecting; Johnson’s letter of condolence for; name on Vietnam Memorial; Newman and Coleman criticizing; and Newman disagreeing about tactics; newspaper reports of death of; nominated for Distinguished Service Cross; Officer Efficiency Index of; and operation of October 15; and operation of October 16; and operation of October 17; in operations of early October; as operations officer for Black Lions; as polo player; as under pressure; recovery of body of; and Shelton; wake of; and Welch; as West Pointer; wife Jean Ponder Allen

Allen, Terry de la Mesa, Sr.; ambition for his son; checking on his son in Vietnam; Hay and; at his son’s funeral; informed of his son’s death; mental deterioration of; in retirement; Shelton and; trying to find out what happened to his son; in World War II

Alpha Company (of Black Lions): barber as VC informant; George becomes commander of; Grady as executive officer of; at Lai Khe; men in evacuation hospital; new men joining; in operation of October 14; in operation of October 17

Alsop, Joseph

Amant Militaire, L’
(Goldoni)

antiwar movement: abolitionists compared with; CIA investigation of; North Vietnamese and; nuclear disarmament movement; Vietnam Summer.
See also
antiwar protests

antiwar protests: conservative backlash against; against Dow Chemical Company; Hanoi newspapers on; Johnson as obsessed with; Kauffman encouraging; Oakland Induction Center demonstrations; at University of Wisconsin; Washington rally of October 1967

Apple, R. W.

Archer, Sandra

Arias, Michael: arrives in Vietnam; after battle of October 17; in Bien Hoa area; daughter marries Dave Wagner’s son; letter home after battle; in operation of October 17

Arias, Theresa

Army Math Research Center bombing

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)

atomic bomb

Aubrac, Raymond

Bablitch, William

Badger Herald
(newspaper)

Baez, Joan

Barnett, Robert

Barrow, Clarence (Bud); at Black Lions reunions; evacuation from Vietnam; in evacuation hospital; meeting fresh troops; and Miss South Carolina; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; recovery of; and Welch; Westmoreland pins Purple Heart on

Ba Tri

Beckmann, Tom

Ben Cat

Bernstein, Daniel

Berrigan, Philip

Berry, Dave

Beutel, A. P. (Dutch)

B-52 bombers

Big Red One.
See
First Infantry Division

Binh Gia, battle of (1964)

Binh Long province

Bivins, Charles

Black Lions (of Twenty-eighth Infantry Regiment): alleged Viet Cong bounty on; Allen as operations officer for; Allen becomes commander of; ambush of; battle of October 17 reported to Johnson; in Bien Hoa area; Cash’s investigation of operation of October 17; day after the battle of October 17; as division’s ready reaction force; estimate of VC killed on October 17; first officer to die in battle; Hanoi newspapers on ambush of; history of; at Lai Khe; media coverage of battle of October 17; memorial service for the dead; Menetrey becomes commander of; men killed on October 17; movements October 14–17; networks of veterans of; new members of; notifying dead soldiers’ families; officers changing in; operation of October 15; operation of October 16; operation of October 17; operations of early October;
Pacific Stars & Stripes
account of ambush; personal effects of dead soldiers; posthumous awards for; recon platoon of; return to the battlefield on October 17; reunions of; Westmoreland and operation of October 17; Westmoreland visits wounded.
See also
Alpha Company; Delta Company

Blackwell, Jim: death of; identifying body of; in operation of October 17; recovery of body of; and Shelton

Blaik, Earl W. (Red)

Bo, Mai Van

body counts

Bolen, Jackie E., Jr.

Boll, James: and Cohen plea bargain; as defendant in Soglin suit; at Dow Chemical protest; Hanson calls; in Stielstra prosecution

Bollenbeck, Joseph

Booker, Joseph Otis

Bradley, Omar

Branch, Ben

Brandes, Stuart

Brandt, E. N. (Ned)

Bratislava meeting

Braver, Rita

Breeden, Clifford Lynn, Jr.

Bright, Margaret

Brooks, Jack

Brotman, Allenn

Brotman, Jane Beth; in demonstration on October 21; at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; later career of; letter home after Dow Chemical protest; misses her French examination

Brown, Randy

Browne, Malcolm W.

B2 Front

Buentiempo, Ernest (Goodtimes): at Arias-Wagner wedding; at Black Lions reunion; and new lieutenant; in operation of October 17; in search-and-destroy missions

Bundy, McGeorge

Bundy, Williamn

Bunker, Ellsworth

Bunn, Peter

Burrows, George

Buss, Kenneth

Byrd, Dwayne

Caisson V

Calef, Rick

Califano, Joseph

Calvin College

Cameron, Eugene

Capital Times
(newspaper)

Carrasco, Ralph

Case, Clifford P.

Cash, John A.

Cater, Douglass

Cates, Richard

Catton, Bruce

Celler, Emanuel

Center, Charles

Central Intelligence Agency.
See
CIA

Central Office for South Viet Nam (COSVN)

Century, Hyman

Cheney, Lynne

Cheney, Richard B.

Chieu, Nguyen Dinh

Chilsen, Walter

Chomsky, Noam

Christian, George

Christopher, Warren

Chuong, Phom Van

CIA: antiwar movement investigation of; in Diem assassination; Helms; National Student Association funding; recruiting at Wisconsin

Cipperly, Jack: at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; Kauffman’s meetings with; role in student demonstrations

civil disobedience

Civilian Irregular Defense Group

civil rights movement

Claprood, Dick

Clark, Ramsey

Clausen, Aage

Cleary, James

Clifford, Clark

Clingan, Dean

Coffin, William Sloane

Cohen, Robert: beatnik appearance of; as caricature of a radical; and
Connections
newspaper; convicted of disorderly conduct; at Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967 “never let a crowd go,”; at sit-in over the draft; in Soglin’s action against Kauffman; on suspension list;
Wisconsin State Journal
on

Cohon, Peter

Colburn, Thomas; at Black Lions reunion en route to Vietnam; identifying bodies; in operation of October 17; as traumatized by events of October 17

Coleman, William: Allen ordered to walk by; Allen reprimanded by; on lessons of October 17; at memorial service; as paying special attention to operation of October 17; as under pressure; in return to battlefield on October 17; Welch meeting with

Committee of Solidarity with the American People

Committee on Student Rights

Connections
(newspaper); distributing in public schools; Gabriner as editor of; and meeting of students, Hanson, and deans; mime troupe associated with; special edition on the Dow Chemical protest; staff members at Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; staff members at Washington demonstration of October 1967; Stielstra comes to office of; Wagner associated with

Coonly, Genevieve (Bebe)

Costello, Joe: in evacuation hospital; at Lai Khe; in network of Black Lions veterans; in operation of October 15; in operation of October 17; recovery of; Silver Star for

C Packet: arrives in Vietnam; divided among two units; en route to Vietnam; at Fort Lewis; members at Black Lions reunions; men in operation of October 17

Cron, Doug; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; in operation of October 17

Cronkite, Walter

cross-over point

Crowley, Jim

CS gas

Curti, Merle

Cutlip, Scott

Cygan, Gerard

Da Nang

Daniel, William E., Jr.

Dateline: Vietnam
(Lucas)

Davis, George R.

Davis, Ronald Guy

DeBenedetti, Charles

Debord, Guy

defoliants

Degelman, Charles

Dellinger, David

Delta Company (of Black Lions): base at Lai Khe; combat readiness test of; first sergeant Bud Barrow; Grosso as new commander of; men from C Packet joining; Miss South Carolina visits; operation of October 15; operation of October 16; operation of October 17; operations of early October; Welch as commander of; Welch training

DePuy, William E.

DEROS

DeStatte, Robert

Diem, Ngo Dinh

Dien Bien Phu, battle of

Dietrich, Cathy

Dirksen, Everett McKinley

Dixon, Bill

Doan, Donalda

Doan, Herbert Dow (Ted)

Doan, Lee

Donovan, Hedley

Doran, Madeline

Doty, Leonidas

Dow, Alden

Dow, Herbert Henry

Dow Chemical Company; Agent Orange made by; antiwar protests against; napalm controversy; public relations campaign of; record number of students sign up for interviews with; visibility as tied to napalm; Wisconsin faculty approves recruiting by; Wisconsin protest of February 1967; Wisconsin protest of October 1967

Dowling, Francis

Doyle, James J.

draft, the: Berrigan protests; draft cards returned; Hershey; Johnson’s view of resistance to; methods of evading; Peace Corps as alternative to; as racist; student deferments; University of Wisconsin sit-in over

Dratch, Howard

drugs

Duncan, Phil

Durham, Harold Bascom, Jr. (Pinky): joins Delta Company; killed on October 17; Medal of Honor for; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; and Welch

East, Leon

Eastern Nam Bo

Eastman, Phil

Edelson, Betsy and Morris

Edwards, Peter J.

Eisenhower, Dwight

“Elegy” (Weigl)

Ellender, Allen

El Paso (Texas)

Elson, Edward Ben

Emery, Wilbur; congratulatory letter to Hanson; defending his officers; and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; reports on antiwar activists to; and sit-in over the draft

enlisted men: battle as seen by average infantryman; feeling used by Vietnamese and their own government; officers not trusting; and official report on Black Lions’ ambush

Enthoven, Alain

Epstein, Leon

Erwin, Bill: on Allen; in operation of October 14; in operation of October 15; in operation of October 17; in return to battlefield on October 17

Evjue, William T.

Ewen, Stuart

Faculty Document

Fallaci, Oriana

Familiare, Anthony

Farrell, Michael

Fergusson, Robert G.

Festge, Otto

Fett, Colonel

Fidele, Sam

Finman, Ted

Finn, Elizabeth

First Infantry Division: Terry Allen, Sr., as commander of; as always going back for its men; area of operations of; arrives in Vietnam in October 1965; base at Lai Khe; Big Red One insignia of; ear-cutting incident; hot meals for troops of; rear headquarters at Di An; reliance on technology and equipment; Route 13 repaired by; song of; Vietnamese opinion of; in Westmoreland’s victory scenario.
See also
Black Lions

First Viet Cong Regiment: in ambush of Black Lions; designations of; First Infantry known by; in Long Nguyen Secret Zone; mission of summer and fall 1967; movements of

Fisher, Bert

Fitzgerald, Paul

Fleming, Robben W.: on calling police in; and Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; Hanson’s portrait of; leaves Wisconsin; and university draft policy “fog of war,”

Ford, Gerald R.

Fortas, Abe

Fowler, John

Fox, John

Free Speech Movement (Berkeley)

Freud, Sigmund

Fried, Joseph

Fulbright, J. W.

Furgurson, Ernest B.

Gabriner, Bob

Gabriner, Vicki: arrest of; and civil rights movement; cutting Stielstra’s hair; as Miss “Sifting and Winnowing,”; released from custody

Gallagher, Michael (Peewee)

Garcia, Arturo

Garcia, Melesso

Garrow, David J.

Gaumnitz, Erwin A.

Gavin, James M.

Gellhorn, Martha

Genack, Judy

General John Pope
(ship)

Geneva accords of 1954

George, Jackie

George, Jim: on Allen; as Alpha Company commander; arrives in Vietnam; company barber as VC informant; en route to Vietnam; in evacuation hospital; at Fort Lewis; on Hay and Allen; at Lai Khe; letters home after battle; in operation of October 15; in operation of October 17; recovery from the battlefield; as traumatized by October 17

Gerstacker, Carl A.

Giannico, Paul

Giap, Vo Nguyen

Gilbertson, Verland

Gillard, Robert

Gilliam, Jim

Ginsberg, Allen

Glenn, Russell

Goldberg, Harvey

Goldman, David

Gomez, Doc

Goodman, Jerrilyn

Goodman, Steve: examining weapons from battlefield; on food for U.S. troops; at Lai Khe; in network of Black Lions veterans; in operation of October 17; in return to battlefield on October 17

Goodwin, Everett

Grady, Tom: as Alpha Company executive officer; after battle of October 17; en route to Vietnam; identifying bodies; as intelligence officer; on letters home after battle; letters to dead soldiers’ families; and Menetrey; in network of Black Lions veterans; and personal effects of dead soldiers; returns to Lai Khe; in return to battlefield on October 17; Woodard turns himself in to Graff, Henry