Warren Emery Newton
Warren Newton was the inspiration for the sculpture of the wounded soldier that is at the Canby Memorial.
Date of birth: 26 March 1949
Date of casualty: 9 January 1968
Home of record: Canby, Oregon
Branch and Rank: Army, Staff Sergeant, Single Rotor Turbine Observation Utility Helicopter Repairman
Unit: 1st Aviation Brigade, 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry, C Troop
Awards: National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal
Location of name on the Vietnam Wall: 34E, 9
Location of service: South Vietnam, Quang Tin province
Died while missing in action .. air crash on land .. body was recovered in 2015
Staff Sergeant Newton was a member of Troop C, 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment. On January 9, 1968, he was the door gunner of a Bell Huey Utility Helicopter (UH-1C) on a cover mission about 20 miles west of Tam Ky, Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam. His aircraft was hit by ground fire, crashed and exploded. The remains of SSGT Newton have been recovered and identified in 2015.
Memorials: Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, DC), MIA Wall at Oregon Vietnam Veterans Memorial Portland, Vietnam Era Veterans Memorial in Canby, Warren E. Newton Memorial at Zion Memorial Park Cemetery in Canby.
Detailed notes describing the air crash can be found at:
https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/incident/68010910KIA.HTM
MIA bracelets were distributed in his honor, and at least one has been left at the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
Here are a couple of remembrances posted at this site: http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/37824/WARREN-E-NEWTON
Never Forgotten
Jan. 9th 1968 we lost all four crew members of 66-745, I remember Warren as a happy go lucky glad to be a Doorgunner instead of ground pounder, I honor your memory along with the others lost that day.
MIA you are but I remember and will never forget you.
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My Ghost battle buddy
For more than 24 years SSG Newton has been my ghost battle buddy. A memory bracelet in honor of SSG Newton was given to me by my DI in 1990. 24 years later I still wear this bracelet to honor him. I will pass this bracelet on to my family when they also serve to keep SSG Newton's memory alive. It would be an honor that any of his family see this and know that he was not forgotten and his memory lives through me and my family.
The Oregonian, Thursday, July 19, 1979
Ceremonies honor Oregon’s prisoners of war, missing in action (excerpt)
Oregon’s prisoners of war and missing in action were officially honored Wednesday for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War.
Still listed as missing in action: Staff Sgt. Warren E. Newton, South Vietnam, Jan. 9, 1968; son of Walter Newton, Canby and Mrs. Betty Heckman, Eugene.
Date of birth: 26 March 1949
Date of casualty: 9 January 1968
Home of record: Canby, Oregon
Branch and Rank: Army, Staff Sergeant, Single Rotor Turbine Observation Utility Helicopter Repairman
Unit: 1st Aviation Brigade, 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry, C Troop
Awards: National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal
Location of name on the Vietnam Wall: 34E, 9
Location of service: South Vietnam, Quang Tin province
Died while missing in action .. air crash on land .. body was recovered in 2015
Staff Sergeant Newton was a member of Troop C, 7th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment. On January 9, 1968, he was the door gunner of a Bell Huey Utility Helicopter (UH-1C) on a cover mission about 20 miles west of Tam Ky, Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam. His aircraft was hit by ground fire, crashed and exploded. The remains of SSGT Newton have been recovered and identified in 2015.
Memorials: Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, DC), MIA Wall at Oregon Vietnam Veterans Memorial Portland, Vietnam Era Veterans Memorial in Canby, Warren E. Newton Memorial at Zion Memorial Park Cemetery in Canby.
Detailed notes describing the air crash can be found at:
https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/incident/68010910KIA.HTM
MIA bracelets were distributed in his honor, and at least one has been left at the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
Here are a couple of remembrances posted at this site: http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/37824/WARREN-E-NEWTON
Never Forgotten
Jan. 9th 1968 we lost all four crew members of 66-745, I remember Warren as a happy go lucky glad to be a Doorgunner instead of ground pounder, I honor your memory along with the others lost that day.
MIA you are but I remember and will never forget you.
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My Ghost battle buddy
For more than 24 years SSG Newton has been my ghost battle buddy. A memory bracelet in honor of SSG Newton was given to me by my DI in 1990. 24 years later I still wear this bracelet to honor him. I will pass this bracelet on to my family when they also serve to keep SSG Newton's memory alive. It would be an honor that any of his family see this and know that he was not forgotten and his memory lives through me and my family.
The Oregonian, Thursday, July 19, 1979
Ceremonies honor Oregon’s prisoners of war, missing in action (excerpt)
Oregon’s prisoners of war and missing in action were officially honored Wednesday for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War.
Still listed as missing in action: Staff Sgt. Warren E. Newton, South Vietnam, Jan. 9, 1968; son of Walter Newton, Canby and Mrs. Betty Heckman, Eugene.
