HONORED ON PANEL 22W, LINE 86 OF THE WALL
HAROLD ROY CHRISTENSEN
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HAROLD R CHRISTENSEN
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POSTED ON 11.19.2021
POSTED BY: John Fabris
honoring you...
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from Mary Kallemeyn is poignant. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us
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POSTED ON 5.11.2019
POSTED BY: wkilli[email protected]
Attack on Firebase Tomahawk – June 19, 1969
Firebase Tomahawk (Hill 132) was a U.S. Army firebase located in the Phu Loc District southeast of Hue in central Vietnam. Tomahawk was constructed in 1969 by units of the 101st Airborne Division beside Highway 1, north of the strategic Hai Van Pass. The base was occupied by the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 138th Artillery when it was assaulted by the North Vietnamese Army’s 4th Regiment during the early morning hours of June 19, 1969. A company barbecue/party with a movie (The Odd Couple) took place on Tomahawk the previous afternoon beginning around 5:00PM. After the BBQ, and during the movie, which was in a tent, it started to rain hard and loud. It was later thought that the enemy used the storm to cover their last infiltrations before the attack. An estimated130 enemy were part of the initial assault and another 150-180 ready to overrun the firebase once the signal was given. The enemy spent the waiting time in a railroad tunnel across the road near Highway 1. After the rain broke up the party, most went to their bunkers while those who had guard duty went to their positions. At about 1:00 AM, the attack started. It went off quickly and was well executed. Unknown to the Americans on Tomahawk, the NVA had worked their way up to the wire on previous nights and cut and taped the wire, making an easy entry through the perimeter. Their initial focus was the infantry platoon on the high ground, the FDC (Fire Direction Center), which took a satchel charge which killed most of the command staff, and the six 155mm self-propelled artillery pieces positioned in a lazy-W pattern on the hill, three of which were destroyed and a fourth rendered unusable. Also destroyed were an ammunition storage area, nine bunkers, the mess hall, the dining tent, the maintenance area, four self-propelled ammo carriers, three two-and-a-half ton trucks, two three-quarter ton trucks, and three jeeps. Due to the darkness and the concentration of friendlies and enemies, only one helicopter gun ship made an attack an hour and a half after the battle begun. The enemy force waiting outside the perimeter to overrun the firebase mistakenly got the wrong colored green flare that signaled retreat rather than attack, and the main force pulled back. Otherwise, Tomahawk would have been totally overrun. At first light, the enemy pulled out. The assault accounted for the loss of fourteen U.S. (including nine National Guardsmen from the 138th Artillery). The lost Americans included SP4 Troy Bethea, FSG Luther M. Chappel, SGT Harold R. Christensen II, SP4 David B. Collins, CPL Donald L. Curtin, SP4 Richard V. Daly, SSG Edward M. Hardwick, SGT Larry W. Kinder, SP4 William J. Kuhns, SP4 Joseph R. McIlvoy, SSG James T. Moore, PFC Luis J. Simancas, SP4 Ronald E. Simpson, and SSG Albert C. Wall. Another 37 artillerymen were wounded. A reported 23 NVA were killed. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, 327infantry.org, and the book “Sons of Bardstown” by Jim Wilson]
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POSTED ON 11.18.2017
POSTED BY: Lucy Conte Micik
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Dear Sgt Harold Christensen,
Thank you for your service as a Cannon Crewmember. Happy Thanksgiving. This is the month that we remember all those who have passed-on. We remember you. It is so important for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
Thank you for your service as a Cannon Crewmember. Happy Thanksgiving. This is the month that we remember all those who have passed-on. We remember you. It is so important for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 7.13.2017
POSTED BY: Mary Kallemeyn
Remembering
Dear Chris, we were so young back then when we met out of high school. You took my heart away, we fell in love and became engaged. We enjoyed a whirlwind year of so many carefree times and fun with friends. As you were drafted into the Army our lives changed and you were sent to boot camp (Ft.Ord) and heavy artillery training (Ft.Sill) before being sent to Viet Nam. It is good we were so young and not realizing what was to be. I still hold the letters, tapes, and pictures we shared as we were counting the days for your return. Our dreams for our life together was the focus of my days, until the fateful time I learned you were missing in action and shortly thereafter declared died in action. Such a hard, difficult time for a young girl of 20 years old. Grieving along with your parents and sister following your service, as our world was in constant chaos with the demonstrators against the war, was a blur of emotions. You forever hold a piece of my heart, yet the dear Lord has blessed me with a wonderful husband and family today. What a wonderful opportunity this site is to remember the Vietnam Veterans who gave everything at a time that still is difficult to understand why.
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POSTED ON 6.19.2016
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear SGT Harold Roy Christensen, sir
As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
With respect, Sir
Curt Carter
As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.
May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.
With respect, Sir
Curt Carter
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