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Casualty Info
Home Town Shelburne Falls, MA
Last Address Shelburne Falls, MA
Casualty Date May 22, 1967
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Vinh Long (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment New Southwick Cemetery - Southwick, Massachusetts
Description Operation Game Warden, Task force 116, was an operation to deny Viet Cong access to the resources in the Mekong Delta which was conceived of in December 1965. U.S. naval forces, backed by Marine artillery on the ground, launching a rapid surprise attack on the dozens of small Viet Cong ports which were scattered around the Delta. Unprepared in the face of intense U.S. firepower, which included U.S. F-4 Phantoms dropping special illumination bombs which blinded the Viet Cong deck gunners, leaving to them being unable to accurately return fire on the attacking U.S. craft, the Viet Cong were incapable of mounting a stiff resistance. Much the Viet Cong fleet and its operators were destroyed.
