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Date Posted: Mon, March 12 2007, 8:26:00
Author: Jeff Northridge
Author Host/IP: adsl-75-45-102-162.dsl.scrm01.sbcglobal.net / 75.45.102.162
Subject: Re: Info on William McKnight Jr.
In reply to: dave huczek 's message, "Info on William McKnight Jr." on Sun, March 11 2007, 15:46:52

Howdy Dave;

SP4 William McKnight, Jr.'s MOS was 12B20 (Combat Engineer) and he was a member of A Company, 65th Engineer Battalion (Divisional), 25th Infantry Division. He was KIA on 8/28/68 in Tay Ninh Province due to "Hostile, Ground Casualty, Gun, Small-Arms Fire". The only thing that the Company Morning Report will show is the military map coordinates of where the incident took place.

To get more information, try leaving a post at the 65th Engineers' homepage at http://unitpages.military.com/unitpages/unit.do?id=104103 . They have 341 members on their roster many of whom are Vietnam-era vets. The 65th Engineers were headquartered at Cu Chi (west of Saigon), but most of the battalion's line companies were stationed elsewhere. I think that A Co. was at Tay Ninh City (the provincial capitol of Tay Ninh Province) during 1968, but I'm not certain. For a 1:250,000-scale map of the area see http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/mapnc4803.html especially the third and fourth maps from the left on the bottom row.

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