Echo Battery, 2/10
Sergeant Walt "Howie" Howerton

Med Cruise
Nov 1969 - April 1970

Baptain R. M. Bundgaard, First Sergeant W. L. Rash, 1st Lt. A. R. Avera, 1st Lt. C. A. Campbell, 1st Lt. Paul J. Buceti

If any of the Marines in the photos are still around, please contact walter.howerton@frontier.com

Richard Valent, Frank Petras and myself keep in constant contact. We sure would like to know where the rest of the guys ended up.

USS LASALLE (LPD-3)

THE BLUEBIRD CLUB
NAPLES, ITALY
January 26, 1970

THE BLUEBIRD CLUB
NAPLES, ITALY
January 26, 1970

Left to Right Sitting
Sgt Gary Enyart, Sgt Richard Valent, Sgt Walt "Howie" Howerton, SSgt Frank Petras, Sgt Fred Simon
Standing Sgt Larry Williamson

Left to Right Sitting
Sgt D. L. Price, Sgt Richard Valent, Sgt Gary Enyart, SSgt Frank Petras, Sgt Robert Jenkins,
Sgt Walt "Howie" Howerton, Sgt Robert Miller

Left to Right Standing
Sgt Larry Williamson, Sgt Fred Simon, Sgt Rocky Howell

Sgt Gary Enyart & Sgt Walt Howerton
Notice that Howie had the bigger stick!
December 25, 1969

Sgt Gary Enyart, Sgt Richard Valent, Sgt Rocky Howell

Sgt Bob Miller doing what he did best

Sgt Gary Enyart & Sgt Tom "Mad Dog" Marks

Sgt Richard Valent, Sgt Tom "Mad Dog" Marks, Sgt Gary Enyart

Sgt Williamson, Sgt Susami, Sgt Williams, Sgt Enyart, Sgt Miller

"Howie"

Sgt Tom "Mad Dog" Marks

Sgt Jenkins, Sgt Susami,
Sgt D. L. Price,
Sgt Fred Simon, Sgt Rocky Howell

"Howie"

"Howie"

"Howie"
Living on the RAF Airstrip - Island of Malta

Coming out of the field after an operation with the
French Foreign Legion on the island of Corsica
Boy did I need a haircut!

Of the Marines in the photos above:

Sgt Paul J. Susami

Born 05/18/1948 - Died 05/29/1999
Harrisburg, PA

Burial
Plot: 20 0 24 2 June 1999
Indiantown Gap National Cemetery
Annville, PA

Sgt Larry Williamson

Born 01/08/1948 - Died 01/22/2005
Bloomfield, MO

Burial
9 July 2005
Missouri Veterans Cemetery
Bloomfield, MO

Sgt Gary Enyart

Born 10/15/1948 - Died 11/11/2010
Sugar Grove, WV

Cremated