Arthur wiknik was a 19-year-old kid from New England when he was drafted into the U. S. Between the sporadic episodes of combat he mingled with the locals, tricked unwitting U. S. Shortly after his arrival on the far side of the world, a mixed-unit base camp near the northern village of Phong Dien, Wiknik was assigned to Camp Evans, only thirty miles from Laos and North Vietnam.
Nam-sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. The gis wiknik lived and fought with during his yearlong tour did not rape, murder, or burn villages, were not strung out on drugs, and did not enjoy killing. Wiknik's account of life and death in Vietnam includes everything from heavy combat to faking insanity to get some R & R.
He was the first man in his unit to reach the top of Hamburger Hill during one of the last offensives launched by U. S. They were there to do their duty as they were trained, support their comrades - and get home alive. On his first jungle patrol, his squad killed a female Viet Cong who turned out to have been the local prostitute.
Days of Valor: An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War
Library journal, 02/2007". An excellent memorial to the exploits of this fighting unit. Collected miscellany, 06/2008. This book has no other purpose other than to disclose the valor and sacrifice of those who fought during this period. This fascinating book will help to remind us of the sacrifices made by all Vietnam veterans.
A nonstop maelstrom of combat action, leaving readers nearly breathless by the end. Troops go toe-to-toe at close-range against their foes. The book ends with a brief note about the 199th LIB being deactivated in spring 1970, furling its colors after suffering 753 dead and some 5, 000 wounded. Days of valor covers the height of the vietnam war, to the highly underwritten, through the defeat of that offensive, from the nervous period just before Tet, yet equally bloody NVA offensive of May 1968.
On january 30, 1968, the storm breaks loose, as Saigon and nearly every provincial capital in South Vietnam is under assault by the communists. The narrative is jarring, because even though the author was a company commander during these battles, he has based this work upon objective research including countless interviews with other soldiers of the 199th LIB.
Charlie Mike: A Novel
Every man he lost cost him a piece of his soul. Lieutenant le be Son: North Vietnamese Army Regular. There's violence and compassion, arrogance and humility, gore and tenderness, friend and foe. Columbus Ledger Enquirer. He would sacrifice everything to protect his country. Some died. One of the finest novels yet written about the war in Vietnam.
The washington postsergeant david grady: leader of Ranger Team 2-2, the Double Deuce, his team, he was a perfectionist who loved his men, and his Army. This is a novel about some of the very best. For all her life, she'd been her whole world. He's got a date with the Double Deuce. Charlie mike may be the greatest war to story to come out of Vietnam.
Fire Dream
Franklin allen Leib has written an epic account of that world. The intriguing cast of characters is headed by Lt. Billy hunter, a gung-ho marine from Arkansas runs long-range Reconnaissance Patrols near the DMZ. Fire dream captures the depth and essence of the Vietnam War experience as no other novel has. Moser, a gentle giant with a slowness belying his insight, becomes Stuart's devoted shadow.
All the men have much to come to terms with - on the ship, meeting death, longing for love, on R&R, in combat on the line, and praying for survival. Bobby cole, learns that in the brotherhood of war, an angry young black marine, racial differences must be transcended. A generation came of age in Vietnam, then returned home to find itself reviled at worst and ignored at best.
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CHARLIE, YOU’RE NOT PERFECT Best Snipers Series Book 10
I hope you know what you’re doing, Wild man. No sweat, ” grimaced Wilder. It is one of their best examples of personal bravery and split-second timing working together to rid the area of a major enemy menace. Everything depended on split second timing and two Phantoms that were still miles away. How these two marines stand alone against a tsunami of the enemy made Marine history.
Inwardly he hoped to hell he was right because they were betting their lives on it. They must stop them, but they are two against the largest number of enemy they have ever seen. The gooks will be close enough to nail us. Here’s a sample:“Wilder, we don’t have five minutes. Don’t fire until they’re seven hundred yards away unless I say so.
Henderson nodded.
Gateway to Hell: Vietnam 1968: Thoughts and personal experiences of an infantry soldier
WHAM! BAM! THANK YOU, NAM
Longer books with more details have been written about this fellow but none of them get to the heart of who he was faster and with more action-filled moments than this one does. Lots of fast-action shooting and flying lead in this one, so you better fasten your seat belt. He writes it the way it was so tightly that before you know it you the reader think you’re the one caught between the machine-gun bursts.
If you were there you may have known him. If you did you probably knew the Bummer too. But not this combat soldier. He liked it there. He liked it so much he kept extending his time to be there. He liked everything about what he did. But what he learned from Bummer saved his life repeatedly.
Ambush at the Waterfall: Marines in Vietnam No Safe Spaces
The marines were hunting and the NVA were ready for them. The nva, who had been waiting in ambush, opened fire on both the point platoon and main body. After the tet offensive of 1968, the north Vietnamese Army forces fled back to their base camps in the jungle covered mountains where they lived, trained and prepared their attacks.
The first in a series of true war stories by a 19 year old Marine in Vietnam. During several battles, the NVA and Marines fought fiercely, with heavy casualties on both sides. As the marines swept along a river, the point platoon rappelled down a waterfall that then separated them from the main body of the Marine force.
This is the story of one of those battles told by a 19 year old Marine who fought in those battles. During operation mameluke Thrust, Marines went into those mountains in search of the NVA.
Legend: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
Flown into the foray of battle by the 240th assault helicopter Company, Benavidez jumped from the hovering aircraft, ran nearly 100 yards through withering enemy fire, and--despite being immediately and severely wounded--organized an extraordinary defense and rescue of the Special Forces team. What the team didn’t know was that they had infiltrated a section of jungle that concealed a major enemy base.
Army’s 240th assault helicopter company and a green beret Staff Sergeant's heroic mission to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, from New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm. On may 2, 1968, a twelve-man special Forces team covertly infiltrated a small clearing in the jungles of neutral Cambodia—where U.
S. Forces were forbidden to operate. Legend recounts the courage and commitment of those who fought in Vietnam in service of their country, and the story of one of the many unsung heroes of the war. When special forces staff sergeant Roy Benavidez heard their distress call, he jumped aboard the next helicopter bound for the combat zone.
Valley of the Shadow
William stuart, a compassionate platoon leader from the 7th ANGLICO Air and Naval Gunfire Liaison Company survived his unit's last battle but continued to mourn his losses. Failure of a major operation to liberate the "Hanoi Hilton" adds to the forces arrayed against Moser's rescue. Finally, it is only through the direct intervention of the president that Stuart's mission is a go.
But doubts remain: has stuart really found the "valley of the shadow" mentioned in Moser's letter? Is Moser still alive? And, most importantly, can Stuart, vivid, Hooper, and the SEALS really pull it off?Valley of the Shadow is dramatic, authentic - and surprising. Old-fashioned heroism in a saga of Vietnam.
Meanwhile, stuart's mission takes him to the mountains of Moser's boyhood home in Georgia and on to the Foreign Legion archives in France as he searches for clues to the exact location of the camp. Along the way, stuart recruits an old friend from their days together in Da Nang. Newsday.
The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
. Soldiers small and wiry enough to maneuver through the guerrillas’ narrow domain. They had only one enemy: U. S. The tunnels of cu Chi is a war classic of unbearable tension and unforgettable heroes. Praise for the tunnels of Cu Chi“A claustrophobic but fascinating tale. The wall street Journal“Chilling.
In these burrows, tended their wounded, the Viet Cong cached their weapons, and prepared to strike. What war really was and how it was fought. The new york Times“Gripping. Using firsthand accounts from men and women on both sides who fought and killed in these underground battles, authors Tom Mangold and John Penycate provide a gripping inside look at this fearsome combat.