Lewis William Walt

We ended up doing that and built six orphanages, a hospital, and a school there until the Vietnam War was ending.

General Lewis W. Walt ended up contacting me.

In fact, I had a direct line with him, the Marine Corps, And he would oversee all of our orphanage buildings and everything.

And he would come to our major fundraising.

We were isolated, nearly out of water in the terrible heat, and ammunition was low.

Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Walt, accompanied by only a runner, came out into that pitch-dark, enemy-infested scrub, located all the companies, and directed us into the division's line on the airfield.

He should have won a Medal of Honor for that feat.

Rumor had it, as we dug in, that the division had suffered heavy casualties in the landing and subsequent fighting.

After each shell, I was wrung out, limp, and exhausted.

During prolonged shelling, I often had to restrain myself and fight back a wild, inexorable urge to scream, to sob, and to cry.

Concentrated their fire on the area of scrub jungle from which Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Walt had brought us.

The shells screeched and whined over us and crashed beyond in the scrub.

This is kinda talking about what you were just saying.

"I was ordered to report to three-star Lieutenant General Lewis Walt, the commander of one of the 100,000 Marines in the northern secto- sector of South Vietnam.

I knew from briefings that Walt was fighting two wars.

He had deployed half his force to combat the North Vietnamese soldiers advancing south through the jungles.

First the Battle of the Batangan Peninsula.

In September of 1965 Marine General Lewis Walt ordered his third marine amphibious force out of their base at Chu Lai on the coast of Vietnam with orders to attack the first Viet Cong regiment on the Batangan Peninsula in Quang Ngai Province near Da Nang.

In amphibious landings on the peninsula these two marine battalions boxed the Viet Cong resident be- re- regiment between them leaving no route of escape.

And by the time the battle was over there were 700 Vietnamese soldiers dead and 50 marines lost.

Early in the morning of the eighth, Edson decided to commit the Raiders of Company A to the task of reducing the Japanese pocket.

He placed Major Lewis W. Walt in charge of the effort.

Walt had been Company A's commander until Edson had brought him over as the operations officer for the Fifth Marines.

The Raiders drove in a few enemy outposts, but could make little headway against the interlocking fires of the concealed Japanese positions.