KARL ROY BIESER

Company A 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 09/23/1968

Age: 18
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Mar 10, 1950
From: SAN DIEGO, CA
Religion: LUTHERAN & MISSOURI SYNOD
Marital Status: Single

PFC - E3 - Army - Regular
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Sep 4, 1968
Casualty was on Sep 23, 1968
In QUANG DUC, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

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Karl Bieser was killed during a combat assault while on Operation MacArthur/Binh Tay,
at grid reference YU836685, approximately 6 kilometers north/northeast of Dao Thong village.

Karl Roy Bieser's decorations

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The following article is from the Albuquerque Journal September 27, 1968:

City Soldier War Victim

An Albuquerque soldier, Pfc. Karl R. Bieser, who had been in Vietnam only 21 days,
was killed in combat near the central highlands, the Defense Dept. anounced Thursday.
No details of his death were available.

Bieser, 18, is the son of Otto P. Bieser (of Albuquerque), and Mrs. Jackie Bieser (of Los Angeles).

The young soldier attended Wilson Jr. High School and joined the Army in January 1968.
He was sent to Vietnam Sept. 2, and was killed Monday, his stepmother said.

Survivors include his father and mother; a sister, Susan Bieser of San Francisco; a brother,
Sgt. Harold Bieser, stationed at Ft. Ord, Calif.; a grandmother, Mrs. Helen Bristoe of
Colorado Springs, Colo.; a grandfather, Otto Bieser, Sr., Denver, Colo.; and five
stepbrothers and sisters.

Above and left:

The newspaper article about Karl Roy Bieser,
with the photo of him as presented in the article.

From the Albuquerque Journal September 27, 1968

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Karl Roy Bieser's brother Harold Huee Bieser was a Sergeant in the US Army at the same time as Karl.
SGT Harold Huee Bieser escorted the body of his brother home. Huee wrote:

" When I escorted Karl's casket from San Francisco, CA., in 1968 I promised to name my first born after him."

That first born was a son who was born on August 24, 1985, and his name is Karl Audy Bieser.
On the VVMF website, Karl Audy wrote the folowing tribute to his Uncle Karl Roy:

" I never met you but it doesn't mean I can't miss you. I love you and rest in peace."

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Karl Roy Bieser is buried in the Santa Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
in Section C Site 182.

The grave marker for Karl Roy Bieser

Photo by Charlie Wheeler from the Find A Grave website

" My brother in life;

My brother in death.

I miss you always. "

Harold Huee Bieser 2012---------------

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