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Casualty Info
Home Town Mattapan, MA
Last Address Mattapan, MA
Casualty Date Sep 12, 1968
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Quang Nam (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Mount Calvary Cemetery - Roslindale, Massachusetts
Wall/Plot Coordinates 44W 039 / Section 18 B, Lot 395, Space 1
Other Memories The new year saw NMCB ONE headed back to Guantanamo Bay. The Battalion arrived on January 13, 1955, with the main project consisting of the construction of the Nob Hill housing complex, consisting of 100 units. Seven months later, the Battalion had completed 47 housing units, new dock facilities, a power plant, and had rehabilitated the water mains. NMCB ONE returned to homeport on August 31, 1955, for a three-month homeport interlude.
Returning again to "Gitmo" on November 17, the Battalion completed the housing complex, a trailer park, a Chief Petty Officer's lounge, the Red Dog Inn Snack Bar, and most of a sewage treatment plant. In addition, they also started to grade for construction at Leeward Point and removed Quonset huts from west Bargo. Early in the deployment Detachment J left for Port Lyautey. While in French Morocco the detachment built two 10,000-barrel tanks, an aviation gas truck repair shop, and a swimming pool. They embarked back to Davisville on May 17, 1956, and rejoined NMCB ONE, which had departed from Guantanamo on May 7.
