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Excerpts from Gary Linderer's October 2001 sworn deposition concerning the 20 November 1968 incident

 

(Note: The filesize of the images at the links below are large, from 50k to over 200k)

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Transcribed excerpt from the History Channel documentary, The True Stories of the Screaming Eagles:

Gary Linderer: “Our main function was to be the eyes and ears of the 101st Airborne Division. That was our motto as a matter of fact.”

V.O.: “Gary Linderer was on one such mission in 1968…”

Gary Linderer: “Five claymores went off that killed nine out of ten people. They were in the patrol. Four of them were nurses and which immediately bothered me, but three of the nurses had .45 automatics on  them.”

 

 

Below are links to the U.S. Army documentation created and maintained by the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War that Gary Linderer claims is inaccurate, incomplete, and should be ignored for historical purposes when it comes to ascertaining what actually happened on combat missions.

 

G-2 & G-3 Section

101st Abn. Div.

Camp Eagle RVN

YD 808162 

 

Daily Staff Journal or Duty Officer’s Log  (form DA-1594)

(note: Gary Linderer’s team is LRRP Tm#24)

101st_04Nov68_page 1

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101st _19Nov68_page 5

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101st _20Nov68_page 1

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101st _21Nov68_page 1

101st _23Nov68_page 5

 

Link to transcribed excerpts from some of the above DA1594 pages

 

Note: the G-2 section is responsible for the following (information provided by CSM Ted Godwin, U.S. Army, Ret.):

 

1.  Production of intelligence, to include:

§     Recommendation priority intelligence requirement and information requirements.

§     Identifying requirements for target acquisition, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

§     Requesting, receiving, and processing information from other intelligence elements.

§     Processing information into intelligence.

§     Supervising and coordinating the command’s intelligence collection and target acquisition activities.

§     Conducting intelligence preparation of the battlefield.

§     Disseminating intelligence.

2.  Counterintelligence.

3.  Intelligence training.

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Click here to read a recent U.S. Army publication that discusses the uses and importance of form DA 1594.

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From John D. Lock’s book, To Fight with Intrepidity, page 417 and 41:

…“Subsequently known as “Black November” mission, the incident only added to the company’s bad luck reputation. Worse yet was the fact that having just recently been assigned to the cavalry, where the unit was under the control of the Cavalry unit, where the terminology for the company was troop, Company F soon became known as “F Troop.” This proved to be embarrassing and humiliating moniker for the company soldiers, for “F Troop” was the title of a popular 1967 situation comedy that depicted a comical, ridiculous, and undisciplined cavalry company in the old American West of the 1970s.”

 

Click here to go to a page with links to a map of the Camp Eagle area.