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One American Killed[edit]

Whoever is editing this page, maybe mention that one American was killed during this battle – 19-year-old PFC Alan Yukio Matsuura, O’ahu, Hawai‘i, who had not normally flown on missions, but volunteered that morning to fly as crew chief on a CH-21 “flying banana” helicopter Two Americans were wounded, 19-year-old PFC Ken Fujimoto, Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i, another CH-21 crew chief, whose leg injury resulted in a record amount of time spent in the US Navy’s “Sài Gòn Station Hospital” before he could be evacuated back stateside, and 24-year-old 1st Lt John B Givhan, southern Alabama, an Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn University now) graduate, a CH-21 pilot who lost a leg after a missile came through the cockpit floor and took off his right leg below the knee. Bob Reinhard (talk) 22:20, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]