- SURNAME
Speaks
- FORENAME
Mac Wayne
- UNIT
5 SF Group (Company C,Det A-102)
- RANK
Captain
- NUMBER
0-2307556
- DATE OF DEATH
27th March 1968
- AGE
29
- GRAVESITE
Hillview Memorial Park,Alexander City,Tallapoosa County,Alabama
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Alexander City,Alabama
born 12.7.1938 Wetumpka,Alabama
son of Richard Tate and Mary Ida (nee Rice) Speaks,Alexander City,Alabama
husband of Annie L. (nee Robinson) Speaks,Alexander City,Alabama (married August 1958) (3 children Wendy,Kenneth and Hal)
10 years service
award Silver Star
KIA Tien Phuoc,Quang Tin Province,South Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,DC Panel 46E Line 50
DATE OF DEATH:
27-Mar-1968AWARD:
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/speaks-mac-wayne.31111/CITATION:
Silver Star : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 8, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Captain (Infantry) Mac Wayne Speaks (ASN: 0-2307556), United States Army (Reserve), for gallantry in action while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force while serving with Detachment A-102, Company C, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, in the Republic of Vietnam. Captain Speaks distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 27 March 1968 as Special Forces advisor to two Vietnamese platoon during an enemy attack on their outpost near Tien Phuoc. During the early morning hours, the camp was subjected to heavy enemy mortar fire followed by a furious ground assault by a large Viet Cong forces armed with automatic weapons, rockets, and grenades. Braving a savage hail of bullets and flying shrapnel, Captain Speaks quickly adjusted illumination flares to expose the advancing insurgents. He then raced from position to position, shouting words of encouragement to his defending troops and placing fierce fire on the enemy. Moving to the outpost's mortar emplacement, Captain Speaks directed intense counter-mortar fire on the attackers until he was seriously wounded by enemy fire. Captain Speaks' gallantry in action was in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
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