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Casualty Info
Home Town Choctaw, AL
Last Address Mobile, AL
Casualty Date Feb 14, 1968
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Multiple Fragmentation Wounds
Location Phong Dinh (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Mobile National Cemetery (VA) - Mobile, Alabama
Wall/Plot Coordinates 39E 030/SECTION 7 SITE 2308-A
Vietnam War/Tet Counteroffensive Campaign (1968)/Operation Coronado XI
From Month/Year
February / 1968
To Month/Year
March / 1968
Description Operation Coronado XI was the eleventh of the Operation Coronado series of riverine military operations conducted by the Mobile Riverine Force of the United States (9th Infantry Division) and elements of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, designed to shut down Vietcong strongholds in the Mekong Delta.
It ran from 12 February to 3 March 1968. The aim was to conduct riverine, air, and ground search operations in Cai Rang and Phung Hiep Districts of Phong Dinh Province, and to locate and destroy the communists' Military Region III headquarters, and to conduct waterborne cordon and infantry search operations on the island of Cu Lao May in the Bassac River.
The objective, as developed by the Mobile Riverine Force in co-ordination with the senior US adviser for the IV Corps Tactical Zone, was to conduct riverine, air, and ground search operations in Cai Rang and Phung Hiep Districts of Phong Dinh Province, to locate and destroy Military Region III headquarters, and to conduct waterborne cordon and infantry search operations on the island of Cu Lao May in the Bassac River.