G.I.'s Push All Way Across S. Vietnam

From Vietnam comes an account of the deeds and exploits by Delta Company 2nd Battalion 8th regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. A Fremont soldier, Sp/4 Garry Bruckner, is a member of that outfit and shared in its battles, its  hardships and its adventures. Garry is a 1968 graduate of Fremont High School, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bruckner, Sherman Township, and husband of Linda Dye Bruckner who lives in Newaygo with their three month old child, Laura Jean, whom the father has never seen.

When Delta company combat assaulted into Cambodia last May on a fleet of whirling helicopters no one dreamed that over the next five months the unit would walk, fly and fight its way completely across Vietnam to the South China Sea. But that is precisely what the company did. Late one evening while tromping through the Cambodian jungle one of the men noticed that the ground underfoot seemed strangely soft. A bit of digging revealed one of the largest caches of enemy communication gear ever discovered in the Indo-China war. Delta company stayed in Cambodia to the very end, swimming the river border to Vietnam only three hours before the very last U. S. Army troops left Cambodia. The next three months found Delta company helicoptered in and out of three different areas of operation as slowly the unit worked its way to the South China Sea. Their odyssey across Vietnam completed, Garry and the rest of Delta Company now dream of the day when they can shed their baggy jungle fatigues and worn combat boots and try out the beckoning surf of their new home by the sea.

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