Battalion Commander – 4th/47th Battalion, 2nd Brigade page 1,2,3,4,5,6 Colonel Tutwiler’s Prized News clippings Here’s Danny Fischer, one of Lt. Jack Benedick’s 2nd Platoon troopers out of Charlie Company. Lieutenant Schulman lost his life, along with a number of his 4th Platoon troopers, during the 4th/47th major battle near Ap Bac village in the Mekong Delta on June 19, 1967.