Frank
Guidara
Guidara
LT · Range ·
In-Country Service
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Home of Record
Character of Service
Honorable
Archive Status
Active
Partial timeline reconstructed from Kirk Davis's essay "30 Minutes Later" (Walking Point, Issue 18, Jan 2013) and associated event records. Guidara is acknowledged by Davis as a contributor to that account.
1971-04-20
Combat Action
Contact north of FSB Fontaine
LT Guidara was Range Platoon leader during the April 20, 1971 contact with an NVA base camp north of Route 1, east of Gia Rai Mountain. CPL James Cardwell, CPL Danny Drinkard, and CPL Joseph Hall were killed; SSG Stan Dillon was severely wounded.
⚠ Source Notice — Multiple Accounts Exist
Sourced from event record and depositions of Capt. Bill Neal and SSG Stan Dillon.
1971-06-24
Bunker complex assault — southeast of FSB Fontaine
Range Platoon led the assault on a large NVA bunker complex and supply depot in a high saddle southeast of FSB Fontaine. LT Guidara (Range 6) ordered PFC Kirk Davis under a large rock outcrop in the dark; Davis discovered a concealed VC body. The operation yielded one of the largest cache finds in the company's history.
⚠ Source Notice — Multiple Accounts Exist
Sourced from Kirk Davis's essay "30 Minutes Later," Walking Point Issue 18, January 2013.
1971-06-24
Confirmed present
Southeast of FSB Fontaine, high saddle, Binh Tuy Province, RVN
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