Official Navy records
His casualty report, Purple Heart, discharge papers, medical board records and the Navy's 2026 awards verification. Tap any record to read it full size.
Service and casualty records
The Navy's official casualty report, filed the day after Hill 861: wounded in action, 16 March 1967, Operation Chinook II.
From the Commanding General, 3d Marine Division, for wounds received in combat on 16 March 1967.
Released from active duty and placed on the Temporary Disability Retired List, rated 90 percent.
Hospital Corpsman HM3, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. Date of rank: 16 March 1967.
Six years after Hill 861, the Chief of Naval Personnel forwards his Purple Heart certificate.
Medical records, 1967 and 1968
Multiple fragmentation and gunshot wounds; admitted to the sick list on 16 March 1967 in Vietnam.
The Medical Board recommends he appear before a Physical Evaluation Board.
His wounds, operations and right nephrectomy.
Found unfit for duty and referred to a Physical Evaluation Board.
"Wounded March, 1967, Kae Sanh, VietNam, by bullets and hand grenade."
