Randy,

To the best of my knowledge and the extremely little information you have given me, I have no idea who you are referring to!
I have the names of approximately 2,600 men who served aboard swifts, from 1965 thru 1970, and there is not a BM2 named Anderson on the list.
You are going to have to provide me a more complete name, dates when the events you mentioned happened and where they may have happened.
I have never heard of any reference to a swiftboat firefight where a swiftee lost both legs and an arm; it just didn't happen and there is no documentation that it ever did!!!
I will be glad to work with you in locating this person but right now I have NO evidence that he ever really existed.
Are you sure he was on swifts, how about PBRs or possibly in the MRF?

CDR Lawrence J. Wasikowski (Ret)
Historian and Webmaster
http://swiftboats.net

Well, right now, you know as much about BM2 Anderson as I do. I do not recall his first name and I do not recall the exact date that he transferred off the USS Hammerburg. I believe it was sometime around June or July 1966. Where exactly in Vietnam and on what river, I do not have a clue. They never told us. Only that "he was on a river patrol" when it happened, plus the other details that I relayed in my previous message. Were there other river patrols on vessels other than swift boats??? The information on BM2 Anderson was received by our Captain at the time and relayed to the crew over the PA system, so I don't think it was bull (untrue).

I just read your message again and see that there were other patrol vessels (PBRs and MRFs) that he might have been on. They didn't tell us what type of vessel he was assigned to, only that he was on a "river patrol" at the time of the incident.

Oh well, thanks for the reply. I guess it will remain a mystery.