Bill "Wendy" Wendover - 67/68 - Basecamp
Read More
BW_New_5-3: (Note from Bill Wendover 6/27/08) SFC Finnis Dawson McCleery (TX). This is a picture of Sgt. Mc getting a haircut at LZ Gator. To this day I wonder what the barber found to cut? This was taken just before deployment North to Lo Giang. 1st Plt Sgt Robert Van Horn had recently been detached to the Chu Lai training center for replacements. With the Horn temporarily gone it was great to have Sgt. Mc assigned to 1st plt., A Co.through the infusion program. I had to infuse a lot of good men that had been in our unit for a long time. In this instance we got back as good as we lost. Sgt Mc was first 3rd squad leader then acting Plt Sgt. When Van Horn showed up out of nowhere on the battle field at Lo Giang he took a round in the knee and we lost him Sgt. Mc stepped right in as permanet Plt Sgt. After I rotated to a Bn job Sgt. Mc was quite often the Plt. Leader. as well.
