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Jerry Claude Bennett
POSTED ON 6.7.2017 POSTED BY: DEE
REMEMBERING
I still have my high school year book you signed
in 1966. Think of you often and wonder what
might have been.
POSTED ON 3.27.2008 POSTED BY: ROBERT W.
STEWART
REMEMBERING A BROTHER
1stLt Bennett was a member of Fox 2/12, a 105
mm howitzer battery dedicated to 3/9 and
located at C‐2 on this date, and was TAD to Mike
3/9 as the Arty Forward Observer, when KIA at
Con Thien on 16 Sep 67 from a blast by a 106
recoiless rile ired by the NVA. Lt Bennett's
radio operator, a LCpl Gable, was also KIA at
the same moment. And, Cpl Harry A.
Hutchinson, the enlisted Forward Observer
from Fox 2/12, was knocked out by this same
106 RR blast and is pictured on the gurney
inside the Corpsmen's bunker in the Life
Magazine article on Con Thien published a few
months subsequent thereto.
POSTED ON 7.19.2004 POSTED BY: BILL COWAN,
USMC (RET)
A MAN'S MAN
A great Marine, a wonderful person, a tribute to
his nation in all respects. At home with God,
remembered by all who knew him.
M‐10