Anderson, Boyd Wellington, SGT

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Service Details

Last Rank
Sergeant

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
11F40-Infantry Operations and Intelligence NCO

Last MOS Group
Infantry (Enlisted)

Primary Unit
1966-1966, 11F40, Detachment B-56 (Project SIGMA), Company E (Provisional) Detachment C-5 (Special Operations)

Service Years
1962 - 1966

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

New York

Year of Birth
1942

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Casualty Info

Home Town New York, NY	Last Address New York, NY

Casualty Date Oct 22, 1966
Cause Hostile, Died	Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Vietnam, South (Vietnam)	Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery - Arlington, Virginia	Wall/Plot Coordinates 11E 096 / Section 13 Site 16217

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Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	2017, Vietnam Veterans Memorial [Verified] - Assoc. Page
	2018, The National Gold Star Family Registry

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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.

My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year July / 1966	To Month/Year December / 1966

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020

Personal Memories

Units Participated in Operation
1st Cavalry Division
29th Civil Affairs Company, I Corps
1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment
630th Military Police Company
18th Military Police Brigade
16th Military Police Group
545th Military Police Company
300th Military Police Company
212th Military Police Company
66th Military Police Company
272nd Military Police Company
716th Military Police Battalion
504th Military Police Battalion
218th Military Police Company
194th Military Police Company
1st Military Police Company, 1st Infantry Division
615th Military Police Company
148th Military Police Detachment
720th Military Police Battalion
95th Military Police Battalion
127th Military Police Company
527th Military Police Company
154th Transportation Company
552nd Military Police Company
4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery
557th Military Police Company
93rd Military Police Battalion