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HONORED ON PANEL 44E, LINE 18 OF THE WALL
ELMER DALE LAUCK
WALL NAME
ELMER D LAUCK
PANEL / LINE
44E/18
DATE OF BIRTH
CASUALTY PROVINCE
DATE OF CASUALTY
HOME OF RECORD
COUNTY OF RECORD
STATE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
RANK
REMEMBRANCES
LEFT FOR ELMER DALE LAUCK
POSTED ON 3.29.2013
Crash Information on U.S. Army helicopter UH-1C tail number 66-00693
On March 11, 1968, this aircraft from the 189th Assault Helicopter Company in Pleiku suffered an engine failure while operating near Kontum. The aircraft autorotated downwind, striking the ground with forward speed. A post-crash fire destroyed the aircraft. The cause of the engine failure was unknown. One of the pilots, CW2 Elmer D. Lauck, and the crew chief, PFC William A. Andrews, suffered fatal injuries in the crash. The co-pilot and gunner survived their injuries. [Taken from vhpa.org]
POSTED ON 5.9.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Elmer is buried at Valleyview Cemetery in Torrington, WY. SS/OLC BSM AM/27 OLV
POSTED ON 12.17.2008
POSTED BY: Tom Mealy-Pilot 189th AHC 1967
Never Forgotten.
The 189th AHC has never forgotten you.
POSTED ON 11.8.2005
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson
Never Forgotten
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heros you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heros lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heros you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heros lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers