November 2001

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#999933" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04a006e0ddwnfv.png"> <div> <B>143rd Field Artillery Korean War</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>   </B></FONT></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" background="04bbec00esnpes.png"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2eeac770.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="119" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="143rd Field Artillery Korean War"><B>Home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Newsletter"><B>Newsletter</B></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> November 2001</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#262626" FACE="Franklin Gothic Book" > </FONT><B>143rd Field Artillery Korean War </B><B>Newsletter</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#262626" FACE="Franklin Gothic Book" > <A NAME="war_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT></div> <div> <B>Facta non verba</B></div> <div> <U>http://143korea.tripod.com/index.html</U></div> <bR> <div> Issue 2 November 2001</div> <bR> <div> Our second newsletter starts with an e-mail received from a former FO and B Battery XO. George Foy wrote me in response to our first issue and e-mail that I had sent him. </div> <bR> <div> "Bob Sherwood was a classmate of mine at OCS, he also was assigned to B Btry, 143rd FA Bn. He was a Forward Observer and an LT. He lives close to me and we get together periodically for dinner or something, I know he has sent you some info on Barber who also was from our class in OCS and assigned to B Btry. He is listed on that list of personnel from our Btry. Hope this answers your query, Sincerely, Geo</div> <bR> <div> The information on Lt. James Barber came in and was passed on to his son. I hope that all inquiries to the web site can get a quick response like this. His OCS class photo can be found in the Picture gallery on the web site.</div> <bR> <div> Thanks to all the assistance I have received from all of the 143rd veterans and their families. Our web site continues to grow and improve. Here is part of a recent e-mail received from the California Military Museum Librarian.</div> <bR> <div> Ron: I have just spent the last couple of hours touring your site for the California Military Museum, I extracted much useful data that I will file for the museum and emailed your email to our webmaster, CSM Dan Sebby, the author of your division history. If he does not already have a connection, I recommended he establish one from our site to yours. I complemented your site in the guest book. It truly is a remarkable accomplishment, congratulations!!! </div> <bR> <div> I have added a Time line to the web site that can be found in the History section. It was compiled from information I retrieved from the California Military Museum. If any of you vets would like to add significant dates to the time line please let me know. There also has been added a few more pages to the History section. One contains the ship newspaper for the USNS Gen. W.M. Black. She was a troop transport used to bring some of you back from Korea. Very interesting reading. If you have a copy of a similar paper from your voyage home please share it with me. Domenick LaRosa has also given me copies of his Dad's orders home from the 143rd in Korea to Camp Kilmor in NJ These are just the types of items that I am looking for to add to the web site. His Orders provided me with several more names of 143rd veterans from all 5 Batteries. On the members list I have added a page for 143rd vets who have passed on. Pass on to me please, the names of any of your buddies who have passed on. </div> <bR> <div> A suggestion came in from Don Lentz. If we could find someone that could identify the members of each gun section it would be easier for us to identify individuals in photos. I would like to make this easier if someone can help me reconstruct an Artillery Battery. Here is my version from past conversations.</div> <div> 8 Officers, CO, XO, 3 FO’s, R&S O, MTO, & Mun (what’s Mun) </div> <div> 3 Sections</div> <div> 6 105MM guns per section</div> <div> 6 fellas per gun</div> <div> 6 Kitchen fellas</div> <div> 4 Supply fellas</div> <div> 2 Armorer fellas</div> <bR> <div> This gives me 122 men in each Battery. Does this appear right to you veterans? Let me know if I need to correct it. The 143rd deployed from Camp Cooke with 112 men according to the photo I have.</div> <bR> <div> The following list contains the 143rd vets or families that I have located to date. They all will receive this newsletter. With your help we can watch this list grow each month. If any of you have contact with any other 143rd vets or their families not listed please pass their information on to me. I will not share any addresses, phone numbers, or e-mail addresses of anyone without permission from that vet or their family. Please pass on my contact information.</div> <bR> <div> A Battery - Hendrickson, William R Lt - Krohn, Lyman Dusty - Pitts, Robert E. </div> <bR> <div> B Battery - Arnold, William - Barber, James A. Lt WIA (to his son) - Beringer, Willard - Bost, Charles non-hostile casualty (to his brother) - Curran, Cornelius - DeCarlo, Joe - Foy, George Lt XO - Goheen, Mel - Haen, Al - Knight, Ray - LaRosa, Domenick F. (to his son) - Lentz, Don - McCormick, Ronald G. - </div> <div> Narveson, Leroy - Powell, Walter - Sherwood, Robert Lt. - Theros, Angelo. </div> <bR> <div> HQ & HQ Battery - Jacobs, Frank - Morrison, James A - Ruffin, Harold - Salisbury, Robert.</div> <bR> <div> These 2 soldiers also receive the newsletter due to their interest and current unit assignments. Check out these web addresses when you can.</div> <div> Flores, Noland 1/143 FA <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/redlegs109" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://members.aol.com/redlegs109">http://members.aol.com/redlegs109</A></div> <div> Villarreal, Jose 40th Historian <A HREF="http://www.calguard.ca.gov/40div/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.calguard.ca.gov/40div/">http://www.calguard.ca.gov/40div/</A></div> <bR> <div> The following is excerpted from "THE FIRE BALL" newspaper, dated April 10, 1953. (Not very GI) </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> FIREBALL, THE BEST OF ALL </div> <div> From the shores of the South Pacific, To the rocky Korean hills, The fame of the 40th Division, Pride in our hearts instills. The artillery, the mortars, the engineers, the riflemen medics and tanks, all work together in peace or in war, with a union found rarely in ranks. The 40th is a fighting Division, Where ever may be the call, The boys to the left and the boys to the right, Know the Fireball's best of all. </div> <div> From PFC. Francis Robert Ericson, Med. Co. 160th Regt. </div> <bR> <div> I want to know about this Division newspaper "THE FIRE BALL." Do any of you have old copies of this? Please photo copy them if you do and send them to me. If postage is ever a problem please let me know. I am very interested in seeing the types of articles that graced the pages of such a prestigious paper.</div> <bR> <div> For those of you who do not know there is a 40th ID Korean War Memorial at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California (formerly Camp Cooke). The Base Public Affairs offers free tours of Vandenberg Air Force Base Wednesdays at 10 a.m., mission permitting. The tour lasts about two hours. Reservations are required. The tour includes stops at the Korean War memorial. For reservations call (805) 606-3595. At the 40th ID memorial you can purchase a stone with you name and unit on it to be placed around the monument. I have attached pictures of these stones. I believe they run about $100.00.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2e9b37d0.jpg" border=0 width="179" height="125" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2ebb67e0.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2edb57f0.jpg" border=0 width="181" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> One last thing before I sign off. I was told that when you went to church the infantry would say "Watch out, here come Baker Breaker The 143 Undertakers." Any of you vets care to comment on this? Sounds like there is a story here.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id76.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="October 2001"><IMG SRC="0fa32320.png" border=0 width="50" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A> <A HREF="#war_" TITLE="November 2001"><IMG SRC="0fb32320.png" border=0 width="50" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A> <A HREF="id98.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="December 2001"><IMG SRC="0f832320.png" border=0 width="50" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <div>  <IMG SRC="http://members.tripod.com/bin/counter/id79.htm?FF0000" ALT="[Tripod Counter]">  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>