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Last Address OCALA, FL
Date of Passing Feb 19, 2010
Location of Interment Lakelawn Memorial Park - Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania
SFC Richard Darrell Hinderliter, 72, of Ocala, Florida died on Friday, February 19, 2010 after a long illness. Mr. Hinderliter Retired after 231/2 years with The United States Army. He is survived by his wife, Margaret O.; of Ocala, Mother, Twilla Enterline of PA; sister, Maxine Bish of PA; brother Kenneth Hinderliter of PA; seven children, many Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren. He has gone home to be with his step-dad, Sam, his two daughters and his great granddaughter.
Other Comments:
I am presently retired from the U.S. Army and on Social Security Disability. I cannot do a lot but i enjoy my retirement as much as possible. After my 23 1/2 years in the military, i worked in Plastic Injection molding in Pa, Ohio, and Florida where i now reside. I worked in plastics for another 20 years before the plastic fumes finally got to me and i had to retire.I used to ride motorcycles but can not do that anymore also i like to travel and love animals. I was a big time bowler while in the military and bowled on th ft Gordon bowling team. I also have many bowling patches and trophys for bowling in the PBA in Germany and countries around there in competition.
While in the military, I served in the following states and areas:
100th Inf - Ft Know Ky, 101st Abn Ft Jackson SC before they moved to Campbell,Stu Co 10 Ft Gordon Ga (Crypto School), 7781 Sig Svc Bn Berlin Germany, 7774 Sig Bn Heidelberg Germany, Btry A 776 FA Bn Punxsutawney Pa, Ft Jackson Replacements Depot SC,304th Sig Bn Seoul Korea,14th Sig Det Ft Lee Va,595th Signal Co Ft Monmouth NJ, 595th Signal Co Ft Devens Mass, All over VietNam with the 1st Inf DiAn, 11ACR Xuan Loc, 196th Inf Tay Ninh, 25th Inf at CuChi, and attached to other units. Then to the Pentagon TCC USASTRACOM, Ft Bragg NC Special Warefare School and Laotian Language, Vientaine Laos SECRET Assignment,, The Pentagon USASTRACOM again,267th Sig Co, 73rd Sig Bn Pirmasens Ger,Signal School for Tactical Communications Ft Gordon where i retired in 1977.
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.
