Huckleberry Inn

Named after Frederick Harry Lewis  AKA “Huckleberry”

Location: Kontum 

“Friendly and easygoing,Huckleberry had a country way about him,and with an old straw hat propped above his freckled face,he needed just a piece of straw dangling from his teeth to perfectly impersonate the Twain character” (a Special Forces engineer at Kontum SF Base) 

5 SF Group (MACV-SOG-CCN) (FOB-2) (ST Oregon,Bright Light) 

Sergeant First Class 

KIA 18th October 1966 

from San Antonio,Texas​born 21.10.1930 San Antonio,Texas​son of Mrs Charles Jaggers,San Antonio,Texas​husband of Earline K. Lewis,Fayetteville,North Carolina (2 children Dawle and June)​18 years service​awards Bronze Star with V,Army Commendation Medal​KIA near Soc Trang,Ba Xugen Province,South Vietnam​Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 11E Line 87 

 

 

 

 

Lewis, Frederick Harry (Huckleberry)
Lewis, Frederick Harry (Huckleberry)
Robert Noe (L) William Danos (C) Peter Fat Albert Wilson (R) Charles Erickson (Back to Camera).

Robert, Noe, L William, Danos C Pete, Fat Albert, Wilson R Charles, and Erickson, Back to Camera.  Dinner time at the Huckleberry Inn.