6th Battalion, 56th Artillery (HAWK)

Taps HAWK Battalions

Taps

Taps began as a revision to the signal for Extinguish Lights (Lights Out) at the end of the day. Up until the Civil War, the infantry call for Extinguish Lights was the one set down in Silas Casey’s (1801-1882) Tactics, which had been borrowed from the French. The music Taps was adapted by Union General Daniel Butterfield for his brigade (Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac) in July, 1862

This page is dedicated to the soldiers of the

97^th Artillery Group AD,

6^th Battalion, 56^th Artillery

6^th Battalion, 71^st Artillery

459^th Signal Detachment (AD Sys Comm)

79^th Ordnance Detachment (GMGS) (HAWK)

Specialist Four James Edward Kralowski
Killed in Action, May 4, 1968
Unit: B Battery, 6^th Battalion, 56^th Artillery, Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem. ~Aaron Kilbourn

Unit	Name	Date of Birth	Date of Death	State	Remarks
6th Bn, 56th Arty	COL. J.A. Richard Guertin	4 April 1930	30 May 2010	RI	Commander 6th Bn, 56th Artillery (HAWK) March 1969 - August 1969. COL. Guertin was the last commander of the 6th Bn, 56th Arty (HAWK) The Battalion was inactivated at Ft. Bliss, TX in August 1969.

6th Bn, 56th Arty	Col. Peter Buck Farrel	16 Nov 1927	1 Dec 2007	VA	Commander 6th Bn, 56th Artillery (HAWK) 5 Sep 1966 - 31 Jan 1967
B Btry 6/56th	SP4 James E. Kralowski	26 Aug 1946	4 May 1968	Vietnam
HHB 6/56th	SGM Ernest Kavach	5 July 1921	19 Feb 2007	VA-AZ
HHB 6/56th	Billy Oman	11 Aug 1928	16 Dec 1996	TX
HHB 6/56th	Charles Pierce	25 Dec 1947	13 Dec 2006	TN
HHB 6/56th	David Stewart	10 Jan 1949	18 June 1989	PA
HHB 6/56th	Howard Wendell	14 Aug 1948	June 1976	NY
HHB 6/56th	Phillip Wilson	2 June 1929	11 April 1989	WA
HHB 6/56th	Burk Williams	7 Sept 1939	18 April 2006	KY
HHB 6/56th	Thomas Vaughn	20 March 1944	30 Aug 1993	TX
HHB 6/56th	Larry Claridge	25 Oct 1938	16 Sept 1996
HHB 6/56th	Kenneth Moore	28 June 1945	28 April 1985	ME
HHB j6/56th	John Pruss	28 Mar 1941	Aug 1985	VT-MI
HHB 6/56th	Robert Simon	25 Oct 1946	6 Sept 1993	IN
C Btry 6/71st	Rebert Berkell	4 June 1929	Jan 1986	TX
C Btry 6/71st	Michael Chavis	30 Nov 1947	19 Oct 2001	NC
C Btry 6/71st	John Gunther	11 Dec 1948	Aug 1975	OH
C Btry 6/71st	Herbert Levine	23 Sept 1943	21 Jan 1993	SC
C Btry 6/71st	Kenneth Marquardt	5 Mar 1943	Feb 1981	WA
C Btry 6/71st	David Pieho	12 June 1945	28 Aug 1997	OH
C Btry 6/71st	Robert Zenor	6 Feb 1938	Nov 1978	OR
D Btry 6/71st	Ernest Butler	22 July 1947	30 May 2002	DC
D Btry 6/71st	Patrick Kilbane	19 Mar 1936	10 July 1984	TX
D Btry 6/71st	Charles King	18 Mar 1947	April 1980	OH
D Btry 6/71st	Emery knighten	5 Feb 1945	4 Aug 2003	FL
D Btry 6/71st	Eugene McConnell	6 Nov 1947	Aug 1974	OH
D Btry 6/71st	Herbert Miller	10 Oct 1947	7 May 1998	OH
D Btry 6/71st	Clayton Nelson	17 Mar 1949	5 July 1989	ND
D Btry 6/71st	Richard Renfro	2 Dec 1930	21 July 2002	MI
D Btry 6/71st	Lee Smith	28 Nov 1944	Dec 1987	AZ
B Btry 6/71st	John Manzo	21 Mar 1948	Sept 1974	MI
B Btry 6/71st	Benjamin Posten	21 Sept 1925	18 April 1992	OK
A Btry 6/71st	Richy (RO) Allen	2 Aug 1949	Nov 1996	CO
A Btry 6/71st	Albert Davis	5 Jan 1925	Dec 1980	FL
A Btry 6/71st	Thomas Klein	11 Nov 1948	6 Mar 1997	IL
A Btry 6/71st	Duel Koger	8 Oct 1946	13 Oct 1999	NV
A Btry 6/71st	John Mulholland	15 Oct 1945	18 April 1995	NY
A Btry 6/71st	Arthur Power	13 Jan 1947	18 April 1991	AL
A Btry 6/71st	Sam Roper	17 Sept 1947	April 1976	MI
A Btry 6/71st	Robert (RV) Walker	27 Dec 1945	15 Sept 1987	CA
HHB 6/71st	Lindsey Jenkins	4 Aug 1911	6 Mar 1990	NC
HHB 6/71st	Richard (Rick) Contreras	24 Oct 1948	Oct 1984	NM
HHB 6/71st	Williams Fielding	29 Mar 1915	21 June 1994	VA
HHB 6/71st	Billy Maddux	13 Oct 1928	14 July 1996	TX
HHB 6/71st	Charles Grier	5 July 1921	Jan 1984	NC
HHB 6/71st	Joseph Young	12 Mar 1928	7 Mar 2001	MA
HHB 6/71st	George Shaw	12 July 1922	Oct 1979	KS
HHB 6/71st	William Ford	16 April 1947	Mar 1984	NC
HHB 6/71st	Herbert Davis	11 Nov 1947	April 1974	NY
HHB 6/71st	Norman Rende	14 June 1943	2 July 1996	MI
HHB 6/71st	William Farley	2 Dec 1912	18 Sept 1994	FL
HHB 6/71st	Paul Thomas	17 Jan 1927	2 Feb 1998	OH
HHB 6/71st	Calvin Redman	4 April 1945	27 feb 2001	OH
HHB 6/71st	Michael Kampi	23 June 1949	Sept 1975	PA
B Btry 6/71st	John Manzo	21 Mar 1948	Sept 1974	MI
B Btry 6/71st	Benjamin Posten	21 Sept 1925	18 April 1992	OK
A Btry 6/56th	Daniel David Sizemore	25 May 1947	29 June 1997	WV
B Btry 6/56th	Robert Emmet Murphy, Jr.	6 Feb 1944	26 Mar 1970	NJ
C Btry 6/56th	Sp5 Richard Victor Poremba	30 Oct 1940	30 Dec 2008	IL
C Btry 6/56th ADA	Lt Col. Gene Shirley Lucas		14 Dec. 2010	PA	Battery Commander, C Btry, 6th Bn, 56th Air Defense Artillery, Hahn Air Base, Germany
A Btry 6/56th Arty	Pvt Douglass Franklin Peay	8/13/1946	7/11/1967	Vietnam, Gia Dinh Province	Pvt Peay's name was added to the Taps page of the Battalion because David Capshaw remembered his name and the date he died, 44 years, one month, and four days after that day in Vietnam. (see Operational Report 6/56, Qtr period ending 31 July 1967).
D Btry 6/71st Arty	SSG Norman Curtis Brubaker	8 Dec 1945	15 May 1968	Vietnam, Ninh Thuan Province	Staff SGT Brubaker was the most outstanding enlisted soldier I ever served with in my 24+ years in the Army. He gave his life trying to help others. The villagers he was helping felt the same great lost that the officers and men of Delta Battery. There are few in this world today that are as noble and good as Staff SGT Norman C. Brubaker. I will never forget him. Posted by Ralph K. Baker, Jr. LTC (ret), Relationship: Other Saturday, February 10, 2011