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Casualty Info
Home Town Endicott, NY
Last Address Endicott, NY
Casualty Date Feb 05, 1967
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Phuoc Long (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Riverhurst Cemetery - Endicott, New York
Wall/Plot Coordinates 14E 122
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Casualty Occurrence: Soldier wsa killed by Hostile small arms fire CAMBODIAN BORDER 23 KM NW OF TAY NINH WEST AFLD 19670205 during Operation Gadsden.
POSTED BY: MELVINA MOSS RUSHNOCK. YOU WERE MY BROTHER. You and your brother Charles, lived with us about ten years. I loved you then and love you now. So sorry for the hurts of yesterday and that you are in heaven and I am left behind. I always will cherish the letter you wrote to OUR parents a week before that bullet claimed you. I love you beautiful blonde Jim, I'll see you again soon. Though we were not blood, you were my brother! I loved your sweet demeanor and envied you and your brother (Charles) closeness. It was I who felt alienated. I still have the letter you sent to "our" parents before Jesus called you home. I've missed all of these years we could and should have been in each others lives. I know that though our separation was sad, seeing each other again in Heaven will be joyous.
POSTED BY: T. ORR, BRAVERY AND HONOR. Although I never got to meet you,I have heard your name spoken and prayers offered in your name while growing up. I am humbled, salute, and respect you, and all of your brothers in arms who have fought for this country. May you rest in peace and god bless.
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ALLEN D. CHANEY, I was assigned, to the 2nd, platoon, Co., A, 1st, Bn., 5th, Inf., 25th, Inf., Div. and SSG., Bostock was the third squad leader. I knew him in that capacity. It seemed as though his squad had a tracked vehicle and lead our company as the company "broke brush," on our daily missions. I will remember him always as a very good NCO, and as one to whom I looked up to. I was present in the platoon leaders tracked vehicle working as the RTO, when SSG., Bostock was killed. 803 South Avenue H St, Clifton, Texas, 76634. I think of you, often. Thursday, December 09, 1999.
Vietnam War/Counteroffensive Phase II Campaign (1966-67)
From Month/Year
July / 1966
To Month/Year
May / 1967
Description This campaign was from 1 July 1966 to 31 May 1967. United States operations after 1 July 1966 were a continuation of the earlier counteroffensive campaign. Recognizing the interdependence of political, economic, sociological, and military factors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared that American military objectives should be to cause North Vietnam to cease its control and support of the insurgency in South Vietnam and Laos, to assist South Vietnam in defeating Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam, and to assist South Vietnam in pacification extending governmental control over its territory.
North Vietnam continued to build its own forces inside South Vietnam. At first this was done by continued infiltration by sea and along the Ho Chi Minh trail and then, in early 1966, through the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). U.S. air elements received permission to conduct reconnaissance bombing raids, and tactical air strikes into North Vietnam just north of the DMZ, but ground forces were denied authority to conduct reconnaissance patrols in the northern portion of the DMZ and inside North Vietnam. Confined to South Vietnamese territory U.S. ground forces fought a war of attrition against the enemy, relying for a time on body counts as one standard indicator for measuring successful progress for winning the war.
During 1966 there were eighteen major operations, the most successful of these being Operation WHITE WING (MASHER). During this operation, the 1st Cavalry Division, Korean units, and ARVN forces cleared the northern half of Binh Dinh Province on the central coast. In the process they decimated a division, later designated the North Vietnamese 3d Division. The U.S. 3d Marine Division was moved into the area of the two northern provinces and in concert with South Vietnamese Army and other Marine Corps units, conducted Operation HASTINGS against enemy infiltrators across the DMZ.
The largest sweep of 1966 took place northwest of Saigon in Operation ATTLEBORO, involving 22,000 American and South Vietnamese troops pitted against the VC 9th Division and a NVA regiment. The Allies defeated the enemy and, in what became a frequent occurrence, forced him back to his havens in Cambodia or Laos.
By 31 December 1966, U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 385,300. Enemy forces also increased substantially, so that for the same period, total enemy strength was in excess of 282,000 in addition to an estimated 80,000 political cadres. By 30 June 1967, total U.S. forces in SVN had risen to 448,800, but enemy strength had increased as well.
On 8 January U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched separate drives against two major VC strongholds in South Vietnam-in the so-called "Iron Triangle" about 25 miles northwest of Saigon. For years this area had been under development as a VC logistics base and headquarters to control enemy activity in and around Saigon. The Allies captured huge caches of rice and other foodstuffs, destroyed a mammoth system of tunnels, and seized documents of considerable intelligence value.
In February, the same U.S. forces that had cleared the "Iron Triangle", were committed with other units in the largest allied operation of the war to date, JUNCTION CITY. Over 22 U.S. and four ARVN battalions engaged the enemy, killing 2,728. After clearing this area, the Allies constructed three airfields; erected a bridge and fortified two camps in which CIDG garrisons remained as the other allied forces withdrew.