{"id":6908,"date":"2025-02-21T00:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:48:52","slug":"middleton-dsc-15-mar-69-duplicate-958-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/middleton-dsc-15-mar-69-duplicate-958-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ellis-dfc-12-may-69"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"Distinguished<\/p>

Distinguished Service Cross<\/h2>

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Headquarters, Americal Division
APO San Francisco 96374<\/h4>

Awarded to LTC George V. Ellis<\/h3>

GENERAL ORDERS
NUMBER 9419<\/p>

AWARD OF THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS<\/p>

1.\u00a0\u00a0TC 320.\u00a0\u00a0The following AWARD is announced.<\/p>

ELLIS, GEORGE V, XXX-XX-XXXX, LIEUTENANT COLONEL, INFANTRY
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion, 1st Infantry,
11th Infantry Brigade APO 96217
Awarded:\u00a0\u00a0Distinguished Flying Cross (First Oak Leaf Cluster)
Date action:\u00a0\u00a012 May 1969
Theater:\u00a0\u00a0Republic of Vietnam<\/p>

\u00a0For heroism while participating in aerial flight as evidenced by voluntary actions above and beyond the call of duty in the Republic of Vietnam.\u00a0 Lieutenant Colonel Ellis distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 12 May 1969 while serving as Battalion Commander of the 3d Battalion, 1st Infantry.\u00a0 On that date, Colonel Ellis was flying aboard his Command and Control Helicopter and coordinating the sweep of a friendly company through an area near Xuan Thanh when the ground unit encountered a large North Vietnamese Army force.\u00a0 Quickly assessing the tactical situation, Colonel Ellis ordered a cavalry platoon to move in and reinforce the infantry company.\u00a0 In addition, he directed his pilot to make a series of low level passes over the contact area so that the Command Group could mark key enemy positions with smoke and call in air strikes. During this time, Colonel Ellis personally engaged a number of the hostile emplacements and succeeded in greatly alleviating pressure on the elements.\u00a0 On two occasions the aircraft touched down to resupply the ground units with ammunition.\u00a0 Both times, Colonel Ellis unhesitatingly assumed an exposed position and placed suppressive fire on the insurgents to enable the ship to safely leave the landing zone.\u00a0 While continuing to fly about the battle area, the Command and Control Helicopter received several direct hits and was forced to make an emergency landing.\u00a0 Colonel Ellis immediately acquired another ship, returned to the site, and continued to locate hostile positions.\u00a0 As darkness approached, he ordered flare ships to the area and directed them to search the battle zone throughout the night.\u00a0 A search that day resulted in finding 59 enemy soldiers dead and the capture of many weapons.\u00a0 Lieutenant Colonel Ellis’s personal heroism, professional competence, and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the Americal Division, and the United States Army.
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Distinguished Service Cross DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMYHeadquarters, Americal DivisionAPO San Francisco 96374 Awarded to LTC George V. Ellis GENERAL ORDERSNUMBER 9419 AWARD OF THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS 1.\u00a0\u00a0TC 320.\u00a0\u00a0The following AWARD is announced. ELLIS, GEORGE V, XXX-XX-XXXX, LIEUTENANT COLONEL, INFANTRYHeadquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion, 1st Infantry,11th Infantry Brigade APO 96217Awarded:\u00a0\u00a0Distinguished Flying Cross (First Oak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_canvas","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedemoserver10.com\/firesupportbasehill4-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}