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Army helicopter nose art & names in VN is history. History is in our scrapbooks, photo slide collections, photo print collections, paper documents collections, in-country recollections, coming home experience, and in our selected memory. History, as an entity, is an unending book, with a beginning that’s time dated. Like it or not, many histories of the Vietnam War have or will be written, but they will be incomplete. It’s the nature of the beast. The percentage of its full telling will never be 100%. In fact, history is never complete. Any attempt to capture time in a bottle is nonsense. Mostly what gets told are the high points only. So, the best we can do then is to gather together all we know, saw and heard on the subject, and make it available to the public.
Army helicopter nose art & names in VN is history. History is in our scrapbooks, photo slide collections, photo print collections, paper documents collections, in-country recollections, coming home experience, and in our selected memory. History, as an entity, is an unending book, with a beginning that’s time dated. Like it or not, many histories of the Vietnam War have or will be written, but they will be incomplete. It’s the nature of the beast. The percentage of its full telling will never be 100%. In fact, history is never complete. Any attempt to capture time in a bottle is nonsense. Mostly what gets told are the high points only. So, the best we can do then is to gather together all we know, saw and heard on the subject, and make it available to the public.
Added: August 14, 2019
Name: Doug Burmester
From: Fort Collins, CO
Website: https://www.ocsatfortknox.com/
E-mail: Contact
Former B/2/17 CAV member Captain Ralph A. Northrop, now deceased, is being nominated for induction into the U.S. Army OCS Hall of Fame. We have a copy of his DD 214 when he left the army as a major in 1981 and know his individual medals and decorations, however we do not know what unit awards he was authorized. We know he was with B/2/17 CAV, 101 ABN in 1969-70 but not the months in those two years. If those are known by your organization please share those with me, or if you know what units awards/citations, etc. he is authorized please share those with me as I'd like to include them in the biographical sketch of Major Northrop. Ralph Northrop was a graduate of Armor OCS at Fort Knox as was I. Thank you.