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2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery

(Taiwan) Association

271 Shady Oak Drive

New Market, AL 35761

<http://www.2-71adataiwan.com>

Volume 5

Newsletter 1

January 2001

More Happy Faces from the 2000 Reunion

L to R: Joe Dougherty, Frank Rivers,

Frank Serpico, Ken Johnson

Photos from the 2000 Reunion

Here are some photos from our second reunion held in St.

Charles, Missouri, 12-15 October 2000. If there are any

errors in identification of people in the photos, please notify

the Association at the address in the heading above.

April 2001 Trip to Taiwan

We have 24 people going on the trip to Taiwan, 22-28 April

2001. This includes 11 troops from 2/71 Artillery and 178 Ord

Det (

Dan Funamura, Al Havard, Bob Mackintosh,

Casimiro Morin, Jim Nelson, Harry Phillips, John

Pohlman, Jim Telford, Herb Terbille, Charlie Trost,

Wes Wilson

), one ROC Liaison Officer

(Lee Jen-Chieh)

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and 12 family members.

We will be touring Taipei, and surrounding areas, for two

days. Then we will tour our old battery sites as guests of the

ROC Department of Veterans Affairs for one day; hopefully,

meeting that evening with members of the ROC 1st Missile

Bn, whom we trained. On the fourth day, most of us will visit

the Toroko Gorge National Park. On the fifth day we will split

up, with some heading back home, some going to Singapore,

some to Bangkok, and still others to Japan or Korea.

Its not too late to add your name if you move quickly and let

Bob Mackintosh

know (Tel: 256-379-3496; e-mail:

<bmack@hiwaay.net>. (Also fill out the form at the back of

the newsletter.) If your wife does not want to go, she very

likely won’t

want you to miss out on a once in a lifetime trip. Call or e-

mail ASAP!!

Status of Meritorious Unit Citation

Unfortunately, we have no information to report regarding the

award of the Meritorious Unit Citation to the 2nd Missile Bn,

71st Artillery, and support units, for their service in Taiwan

from September 1958 to August 1959. The recommendation

prepared last year by John Spegele, D Btry, and submitted to

the Department of Army through his Virginia Congressman is

still under review at DA.

2nd Missile Bn, 71st Artillery (Taiwan)

Association Web Site

I hope all of you with access to the World Wide Web

(WWW) have seen the great job that

Dave O’Connel

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has done with our Association Web Site. He has made it

even easier for you to access the site with a new Web

address. Check it out at

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