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Lee spent January 1969 to December 1970 in the US Army. Cong Catchers is a compilation of events that occurred while he served. This is not a guns-and-ammo book. It is a book about a young man with Christian values at war. A young man who avoided the pleasures that were readily available and instead organized football games, drank soda, avoided drugs, and helped repair orphanages. You will enjoy meeting many of those he served with and the ways they...
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When the Viet Nam War ended, with the United States of America defeated, many wondered how a military powerhouse lost to a "raggedy-ass, little fourth-rate country," as President Lyndon Johnson called North Viet Nam. Frank Scotton knew why. A young Foreign Service Officer assigned to Viet Nam in 1962, Scotton drove roads others avoided, walked trails alone, and spent nights in remote hamlets. Learning the Vietnamese language, carrying a carbine, and...
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A nonstop maelstrom of combat action, leaving the reader nearly breathless by the end. The human courage and carnage described in these pages resonates through the centuries, from Borodino to the Bulge, but the focus here is on the Vietnam War, and a unique unit formed to take part at its height.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade was created from three U.S. infantry battalions of long lineage, as a fast reaction force for the U.S. to place in Indochina....
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Get the Summary of Diane Carlson Evans & Bob Welch's Healing Wounds in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Healing Wounds" chronicles the emotional journey of Diane Carlson Evans, a former combat nurse, as she grapples with the aftermath of her service in the Vietnam War. The book details her struggle with repressed memories and PTSD, her efforts to reconcile with her past, and her advocacy for the recognition of women...
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You-are-there stories of ambushes and patrols on the Mekong in the Vietnam War Developed specifically for the Vietnam War (and made famous by the 2004 presidential campaign), Swift Boats were versatile craft "big enough to outrun anything they couldn't outfight" but too small to handle even a moderate ocean chop, too loud to sneak up on anyone, and too flimsy to withstand the mildest of rocket attacks. This made more difficult an already tough mission:...
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Get the Summary of Jim Lindsay & Chuck Mawhinney's The Sniper in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Sniper" chronicles the life and military career of Charles Benjamin Mawhinney, from his childhood in Pine Creek, Oregon, to his service as a US Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam. Raised in a self-reliant homestead, Chuck learned the value of hard work and developed sharpshooting skills under his grandfather's tutelage....
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When combat ceased across Vietnam, it signaled the start of a cold war over the Americans left behind. As family members agonized, nearly 2,500 POWs and MIAs had become human pieces in a diplomatic chess match that outlasted the war itself. U.S. prisoners of war and missing in action were never forgotten in Southeast Asia. In fact, just the opposite. They were a symbolic, last battalion of Americans, working in concert with the U.S. government, to...
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The Vietnam War: Relive The 2nd Longest War in American History Take a trip down the historic path to learn more about the Vietnam War. The conflict lasted 20 years and was fought on all fronts with the daunting Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north, the Viet Cong communist Guerillas in the south and escalating political pressure back home to withdraw from the war. You'll discover: What the Vietnam War was about, how did it get started and who...
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This military memoir examines one of the most vicious and tragically forgotten battles of the Vietnam War from a variety of perspectives.
In June of 1967, the Viet Cong sought to isolate and destroy an elite South Vietnamese unit as part of a new offensive strategy. They sent a voluntary POW as an "informant" to dupe the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion into taking a dangerous position in the III Corps sector of South Vietnam. In the midst of...
10) Goodbye Vietnam
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In this gripping memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam to try to make sense of the war. Previously published as Brothers in Arms, this edition includes a new preface by the author. When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old student at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military service. During his physical exam, however, he realized that he couldn't let social class or education give him special privileges....
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A new edition of this classic illustrated history of the operations and operatives of MACV-SOG in the Vietnam War.
In 1972 the U.S. military destroyed all known photos of the top-secret Studies and Observations Group, with the intention that details could never be made public. But unknown to those in charge, SOG veterans had brought back with them hundreds of photographs of SOG in action and would keep them secret for more than three decades. In...
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The ground war in Vietnam pitted a myriad of American tanks, artillery, APC and trucks against not only the weapons of Communist North Vietnam, but also the terrain. Through archival images, the arsenal of the US Army and USMC are revisited. From the iconic M113 APC to the M48A3 tank, M551 Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle, M151 and M54 trucks, M50 Ontos, M107 and M109 artillery, and M42 Duster, the complete array of vehicles fielded...
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The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey is an incredible story and a modern morality tale about a man of compassion and promise trapped by a horrible secret.
On the night of February 25, 1969, an inexperienced, 25-year-old lieutenant, Bob Kerrey, led a commando raid on an isolated hamlet called Thanh Phong in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. While witnesses and official records give varying accounts, one thing is certain: around midnight, Kerrey and his men...
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Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that
everyone is at most six steps away from, or
connected to, any other person on Earth.
While the Vietnam War was raging,
silver bracelets were created to raise
awareness of, and show support for,
American servicemen who were prisoners of
war (POW) or missing in action (MIA). After
the war, black bracelets were produced to
pay homage to any of our armed forces killed
in action (KIA). The orange bracelet...
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In the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. Black Cat 2-1 is the story of one pilot who made it home and the valiant men he served with who risked their lives for the troops on the ground. Bob Ford invites readers into the Huey helicopters he flew on more than 1,000 missions when he and his men dared to protect and rescue. For those whose voices were silenced in that faraway place or who have never told their stories,...
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The true story of Bronze Star recipient Allen Weseleskey and his high-risk rescue mission, carried out under heavy fire in Vietnam. Includes photos.
When the going is fast and rough, I will not falter. I will be uncompromising in every blow I strike. I will be humble in victory. I am a United States Navy Flyer. -from "A Navy Flyer's Creed"
Barely a month after the start of the Tet Offensive in 1968, a Navy flyer applied this creed-and dared to...
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On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon proved so devastating that Strategic Air Command was ordered to halt the bombing. The U.S. Air Force's poor performance in this and other operations during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had...
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Sheds crucial new light on the epochal U.S. interventions in Southeast Asia after WWII. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under U.S. bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodia history after unprecedented U.S. bombing. The book further includes classic work by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman.
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Palace Cobra picks up where Ed Rasimus's critically acclaimed When Thunder Rolled left off. Now he's flying the F-4 Phantom and the attitude is still there.
In the waning days of the Vietnam War, Rasimus and his fellow pilots were determined that they were not going be the last to die in a conflict their country had abandoned. They were young fighter pilots fresh from training and experienced aviators who came back to the war again and again, not...
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Nestled in the heart of Appalachia, the rugged terrains of Harlan County, Kentucky, birthed a story of resilience, honor, and unwavering spirit. Harlan County Son reveals this narrative, taking readers on an evocative journey that transcends time and emotion.
A young boy's life in Harlan County echoes the timeless adventures of "Tom Sawyer" but is also pierced by real-life traumas. Suffering abject poverty, witnessing the tragic killing of his father...