Name: Dan O'Hanlon
Rank: E-5
PMOS: 05B4 SMOS: 05B4S

Groups: 5th SFGA checkbox
6th SFGA checkbox

Teams/Camps in SE ASIA:
C-4 Can Tho,
B42, Cao Lahn, (or was that 43? Damn this getting old!)
A-421 at Ba Xoai, (Replacing one, Sgt. Freil) and then
B42 again, for a short period in Nov-Dec, '69, at its new camp at Chi Lang.

Comments:
In the past year, several of the members of A-421 (circa 1969) have suddenly been put in contact with one another. Others(**) are found to have passed away.):
Cpt. BRIAN MACDONALD,
Lt. JOHN FECHENBACH,
Sgt NICK ("Top") LaNOTTE**
Sgt. LEROY ("Soap") SOPER** (TRIPPLE veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.)
Sgt. BOB (Hawk) REIS(*)
Sgt. RUSS BOND
Sgt. BRYAN FURMAN
Sgt. NEIL MAYSE**
Sgt. BILL (Butcher) Malone,
(great guys to the last!)
—and myself, Sgt. DAN (Oscar) O'HANLON.

(*)Sadly, Bob Reis, having just found us all, and after so long, was killed in an automobile accident, this past May.

WE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR news of:
Sgt. Bobby Newnam, and
Sgt. "Wells" Wells (whose first name, it seems, NOBODY--EVER knew!)

If you worked w/SF: We are also in contact with DAVID MAY (Navy) who was was attached to A-421 circa 1969, as part of a clasiffied Navy sound surveillance team.

Email: d.ohanlon@ntlworld.com

Home Town: New York City

Presently Living in: Mullaghbawn, Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

 

 



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