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Retired Army Lt. Col. Charles Kettles, a Vietnam War helicopter pilot awarded the Medal of Honor in 2016 for his courageous acts in South Vietnam, has died. The Ypsilanti, Mich., native, who turned 90 on Jan. 9, 2019. He received the Medal of Honor in 2016 for heroic action on May 15, 1967, while a major with the 176th Aviation Company, 14th Combat Aviation Battalion, Americal Division, hear Duc Pho, Vietnam, leading a platoon of UH-1D helicopters in support of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, which was ambushed. In a 2018 interview with Press & Guide, a Southgate, Mich., newspaper, Kettles said he had volunteered to return to active duty for service in Vietnam after seven years in the Army Reserve because “the Army was screaming for pilots.” “They spent several hundred thousand dollars training men, and at that point I had six children. In fairness to the youngsters, I went back on active duty to do my share,” he said in the interview published as he was named grand marshal for the Memorial Day parade in Dearborn, Mich.
Dr. J. Harold Ellens passed away peacefully at home with his family on April 13, 2018. Col Ellens was the Department of Michigan Chaplain for many years. The Department will greatly miss him. Further information can be found at https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jayharoldellens. If you need to contact the family directly, please do so through Dan Ellens. Email: dellens1957@gmail.com Phone: (248) 229 3042.
LTC Edwin "Win" Wiley Taylor III, USA, Ret., 73, of Grand Rapids, Mich., died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. For more information see: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/edwin-tayloriii-obituary?pid=187369812&view=guestbook
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