Matocha Info

Log on and tune in Sunday 29 January at 5:00pm CST at www.veteransradio.net to hear Dale Throneberry's interview with "An Ocean Away" director Patrick Fries and film principals Linda Matocha Masur and Marine Andre Boersma as they discuss the journey that brought USMC LT Donald Matocha home from Vietnam.

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San Marcos Daily Record: ‘An Ocean Away'

Mon, 2006-01-16 15:42 |

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The San Marcos Daily Record has an article entitled ‘An Ocean Away' which begins:

On April 4, 1968, a 10-man Marine reconnaissance team was sent out on a mission on Dong Ma Mountain in what was then the Republic of South Vietnam. They were to locate a North Vietnamese observation post on the south side of the mountain and destroy it. The Dallas Girl recon team made it to the top of Dong Ma the following day, but before they were able to destroy the observation post they were ambushed in a round of enemy fire. Twenty-three-year-old Second Lieutenant Donald Matocha was killed in the firefight and several other Marines were wounded. They radioed for help and CH-46 helicopter pilot Ron Gatewood and his team hoisted the men out one at a time.

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Tags: Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area, CDATA, Geography of Texas, Hays County, Texas, Person Career, San Antonio metropolitan area, San Marcos Daily Record, San Marcos, Texas, Texas, United States Marine Air-Ground Task Force Reconnaissance

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