tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post6138354759150035765..comments2024-03-29T07:16:56.810+00:00Comments on Sean Linnane: BATTLE OF NUI COTO - PART IIISTORMBRINGERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18405613458419510116noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-80316919739090554192024-03-09T19:01:24.446+01:002024-03-09T19:01:24.446+01:00Sorry. This was "B" Battery 6thBn 77Th A...Sorry. This was "B" Battery 6thBn 77Th Artillery. I was there and Lt. Gorrill was my friend. 1st. Lt. Paul W. May, XO "B" Battery 6th Bn 77<br />Th ArtilleryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-38923850347493217442021-02-04T23:25:52.778+01:002021-02-04T23:25:52.778+01:00*Correction - Ben Davan*Correction - Ben DavanAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902879802074736381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-35064219540811064042021-02-04T23:24:24.872+01:002021-02-04T23:24:24.872+01:00This is Gary B. Blackburn. Hamp Dews was halping m...This is Gary B. Blackburn. Hamp Dews was halping me write an expanded story about Fen Davan and the Battle of Nui Coto in the fall of 2020. Hamp passed away 29 days after our work concluded. The story should appear as part of a second volume of a new book just out titled "Those Gentle Heroes. Hope to have second volume out later this year (2021)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902879802074736381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-4006532951668675352018-01-28T04:41:13.427+00:002018-01-28T04:41:13.427+00:001LT Thomas R. Gorrill was an artilleryman assigned...1LT Thomas R. Gorrill was an artilleryman assigned to C Battery, 6th Battalion, 77th Artillery, 9th Infantry Division. During Operation Nui Coto, 1LT Gorrill was on loan to Mike Force troops conducting a campaign to dislodge Viet Cong elements of the 510th VC Battalion which controlled a network of caves and bunkers in that mountain. On April 2, 1969, Gorrill was serving as Forward Observer in the assault. While calling in a fire mission from his supporting battery on an automatic weapons placement, he got ahead of the CIDG unit he was working with when a friendly gunship began firing near his location. B Battery, 1st Battalion, 84th Field Artillery Battalion, was at the bottom of the mountain monitoring the radio net when they heard Gorrill begin yelling, “Who called the gunship? Get it off, get it off!!” Gorrill was fatally injured when fire from the gunship meant for the enemy hit his position. His body was recovered by the CIDG fighters, who carried it down the mountain to B Battery, 1/84th’s firebase. It was put on a helicopter and flown to a U.S. Army morgue. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, the document “Operational Report of 5th Special Forces Group (Abn) for the Period Ending 30 April 1969.” (redwarriors.us), and information provided by Jim Breth (January 2018)]kaiser61https://www.blogger.com/profile/15615806367520481195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6340335897594941637.post-22622482308919148382014-11-19T16:19:50.149+00:002014-11-19T16:19:50.149+00:00Thank you for posting historical war time events l...Thank you for posting historical war time events like this! Much appreciated! NOIRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com