Michael, the son of Ernest Raymond Soderstrom and Dolores Haysin Soderstrom of Honolulu HI enlisted in the US Navy on August 4, 1966 in Omaha NE. He arrived in Vietnam on April 29, 1968 and was assigned as a Medical Corpsman to H&S Company, attached to Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines (Rein) FMF.
On the sixteenth day of Operation MAMELUKE THRUST,the Marines of the 1st Battalion found themselves in the mountains north of the Thuong Duc Valley OPCON to the 26th Marine Regiment conducting combat and recon patrols in the vicinity of Hill 1062. By late afternoon Marine units linked up, an LZ, a combat base,and defensive positions were prepard for the night. At approximately 20:35H the Company B perimeter was hit with fragmentation and concussion grenades followed by a large volume of small arms fire. The Marines returned fire at the enemy holding their positions from a possible enemy attack in force. A sporadic fire fight developed which continued throughout the nignt between the opposing forces.
Four Marines, two USN Corpsman died and twenty three men were wounded in the night's action, one of the casualties was HN Soderstrom who was killed in action from hostile enemy automatic weapons fire.
Casualties:
Joseph John Grillo Jr.
Robert Vernon Holland
Amelio Nino
Richard Allan Polley
Casualties: H&S Company
Attached to Company B
Richard Alfred Roesler
Michael Dennis Soderstrom
Military Information: HN, US NAVY
On the sixteenth day of Operation MAMELUKE THRUST,the Marines of the 1st Battalion found themselves in the mountains north of the Thuong Duc Valley OPCON to the 26th Marine Regiment conducting combat and recon patrols in the vicinity of Hill 1062. By late afternoon Marine units linked up, an LZ, a combat base,and defensive positions were prepard for the night. At approximately 20:35H the Company B perimeter was hit with fragmentation and concussion grenades followed by a large volume of small arms fire. The Marines returned fire at the enemy holding their positions from a possible enemy attack in force. A sporadic fire fight developed which continued throughout the nignt between the opposing forces.
Four Marines, two USN Corpsman died and twenty three men were wounded in the night's action, one of the casualties was HN Soderstrom who was killed in action from hostile enemy automatic weapons fire.
Casualties:
Joseph John Grillo Jr.
Robert Vernon Holland
Amelio Nino
Richard Allan Polley
Casualties: H&S Company
Attached to Company B
Richard Alfred Roesler
Michael Dennis Soderstrom
Military Information: HN, US NAVY
Michael, the son of Ernest Raymond Soderstrom and Dolores Haysin Soderstrom of Honolulu HI enlisted in the US Navy on August 4, 1966 in Omaha NE. He arrived in Vietnam on April 29, 1968 and was assigned as a Medical Corpsman to H&S Company, attached to Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines (Rein) FMF.
On the sixteenth day of Operation MAMELUKE THRUST,the Marines of the 1st Battalion found themselves in the mountains north of the Thuong Duc Valley OPCON to the 26th Marine Regiment conducting combat and recon patrols in the vicinity of Hill 1062. By late afternoon Marine units linked up, an LZ, a combat base,and defensive positions were prepard for the night. At approximately 20:35H the Company B perimeter was hit with fragmentation and concussion grenades followed by a large volume of small arms fire. The Marines returned fire at the enemy holding their positions from a possible enemy attack in force. A sporadic fire fight developed which continued throughout the nignt between the opposing forces.
Four Marines, two USN Corpsman died and twenty three men were wounded in the night's action, one of the casualties was HN Soderstrom who was killed in action from hostile enemy automatic weapons fire.
Casualties:
Joseph John Grillo Jr.
Robert Vernon Holland
Amelio Nino
Richard Allan Polley
Casualties: H&S Company
Attached to Company B
Richard Alfred Roesler
Michael Dennis Soderstrom
Military Information: HN, US NAVY
On the sixteenth day of Operation MAMELUKE THRUST,the Marines of the 1st Battalion found themselves in the mountains north of the Thuong Duc Valley OPCON to the 26th Marine Regiment conducting combat and recon patrols in the vicinity of Hill 1062. By late afternoon Marine units linked up, an LZ, a combat base,and defensive positions were prepard for the night. At approximately 20:35H the Company B perimeter was hit with fragmentation and concussion grenades followed by a large volume of small arms fire. The Marines returned fire at the enemy holding their positions from a possible enemy attack in force. A sporadic fire fight developed which continued throughout the nignt between the opposing forces.
Four Marines, two USN Corpsman died and twenty three men were wounded in the night's action, one of the casualties was HN Soderstrom who was killed in action from hostile enemy automatic weapons fire.
Casualties:
Joseph John Grillo Jr.
Robert Vernon Holland
Amelio Nino
Richard Allan Polley
Casualties: H&S Company
Attached to Company B
Richard Alfred Roesler
Michael Dennis Soderstrom
Military Information: HN, US NAVY
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