2016年4月22日 · Ret. Army Lt. Col. Clark Welch, a Vietnam War hero, died recently in Leesburg and will be buried later in Arlington National Cemetery.

First Lieutenant Clark Welch (far right) described the actions of 16 October to the senior officers of the 1st Infantry Division

2016年4月22日 · Welch, an Airborne Ranger who loved his soldiers like a father, died April 12 in Leesburg. The lieutenant colonel owned a piece of history in the Vietnam War that unfortunately was shrouded in...

2014年11月10日 · Retired Lt. Col. Clark Welch is living quietly in the Arlington Ridge community just south of Leesburg. Who knew? Who knew that the cheery 74-year-old soldier — and make no mistake, he is still...

2016年4月12日 · Albert Clark Welch, Lt. Col. U. S. Army (Ret.), age 76, passed away Tuesday, April 12, 2016 in Leesburg, Florida. Albert was born in Dover, New Hampshire and moved to the Villages/Leesburg area in 2006 from Bonita Springs, Florida.

Welch was an inductee to the Ranger Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars with "V" device, Bronze Stars with "V" device, the Legion of Merit, many other citations and awards, and is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.

LEESBURG, Fla. – Albert Clark Welch, Lt. Col. U. S. Army (Ret.) age 76 passed away Tuesday, April 12, 2016 in Leesburg, Fla. Clark was born in Dover, N.H. He was a 1957 graduate from Oyster River High School and was the class president. He was an Airborne Ranger who served in the 1st Infantry Division and Special Forces.

First Lieutenant Clark Welch described the actions of October 16 to the senior officers of the 1st Infantry Division.The Battle of Ong Thanh was fought at th...

They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 is a 2004 book written by David Maraniss. The book centers around the Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2004 [1] and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize that same year.

On 16 October D Co, with LT Welch commanding, and B Co with CPT Jim Kasik commanding, engaged a large size force directly south of the Battalion NDP. LT Welch and his D Co, which were leading in column, did all the fighting. D Co had four wounded, and a US captain advising a Vietnamese Province reconnaissance unit attached to D Co was killed.