Vernon Lee Henke

PFC Vernon Lee Henke

Vernon Lee Henke from LaValle, Wisconsin, was born on May 6, 1947. He entered the Army and started his tour in Viet Nam on January 10, 1967. As a Private First Class, he was assigned to B Co., 4TH BN, 47TH Infantry, 9TH INF DIV. During the war, his division's units often served with the Mobile Riverine Force and other US Navy units that made up the Brown Water Navy. Its area of operations were in the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta from 1967 to 1972.

Harold A. Polhmann

T/5 Harold A. Pohlmann

T/5 Harold A. Pohlmann, 26, was killed on June 21, in action on Biak island, northwest of New Guinea, the war department informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Pohlmann, who live three miles south of here. The sad information was received by them via telegram.

 Harold, born 10/19/1917, e n t e re d service on June 6, 1941, and was sent overseas in April, 1942. He was sent to the South Pacific area where he had been since. He was never home on a furlough from the time he went into service.