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REWOLINSKI, Robert John, Sr. (Bob), PO2.
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Home Town Milwaukee
Last Address Interment was in Hillside Cemetery, Columbus WI, with full military honors by VFW Post 8090.
Date of Passing Mar 07, 2014
Location of Interment Hillside Cemetery - Columbus, Wisconsin
Bob Rewolinksi graduated from Pulaski High School in Milwaukee and entered the Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in 1965. After being drafted, he chose instead to enlist in the US Navy and became a hospital corpsman. After basic training in Illinois, he was stationed in Norfolk and Orlando and then served in Vietnam from 1969-1970. While there, he served at the naval hospital in Da Nang, and as a field corpsman in the DMZ. Upon honorable discharge in 1970, Bob re-entered nursing school at Milwaukee Technical College. After completing his RN, he went on to the Milwaukee County School of Anesthesia and became a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. He worked at St. Josephâ??s Hospital in Mankato, MN before settling in the Beaver Dam/Columbus WI area. Over the years, he was employed by both Columbus and Beaver Dam hospitals. In August of 1998, he was involved in a catastrophic vehicle accident which left him permanently disabled.Â
Vietnam War/Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 Campaign
From Month/Year
June / 1969
To Month/Year
October / 1969
Description This Campaign period was from 9 June to 31 October 1969. In the Mekong Delta proper, Swift boat, PBR, riverine assault craft, SEAL, and Vietnamese ground units struck at the Viet Cong in their former strongholds, which included the Ca Mau Peninsula, the U Minh Forest, and the islands of the broad Mekong River system.
After raiding and harassing operations like Silver Mace II, the combined navies often deployed forces to secure a more permanent Vietnamese government presence in vital areas. In June 1969, for example, the U.S. Navy anchored a mobile pontoon base in the middle of the Ca Mau region's Cua Lon River. This operation, labelled Sea Float, was made difficult by heavy Viet Cong opposition, strong river currents, and the distance to logistic support facilities. Still, Sea Float denied the enemy a safe haven even in this isolated corner of the delta. The allies further threatened the Communist "rear" area in September when they set up patrols on the Ong Doc, a river bordering the dense and isolated U Minh area. Staging from an advance tactical support base at the river's mouth, U.S. and Vietnamese PBRs of Operation Breezy Cove repeatedly intercepted and destroyed enemy supply parties crossing the waterway.
By October 1969, one year after the start of the SEALORDS campaign, Communist military forces in the Mekong Delta were under heavy pressure. The successive border interdiction barriers delayed and disrupted the enemy's resupply and troop replacement from Cambodia. The raiding operations hit vulnerable base areas and the Sea Float deployment put allied forces deep into what had been a Viet Cong sanctuary. In addition, American and Vietnamese forces captured or destroyed over 500 tons of enemy weapons, ammunition, food, medicines, and other supplies. Furthermore, 3,000 Communist soldiers were killed and 300 were captured at a cost of 186 allied men killed and 1,451 wounded.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
June / 1969
To Month/Year
October / 1969
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
Memories Four Campaigns: Tet 69 Counteroffensive; 23 February 1969 8 June 1969 Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969; 9 June 1969 31 October 1969 Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970; 1 November 1969 30 April 1970 Sanctuary Counteroffensive; 1 May 1970 30 June 1970
