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This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan. They describe the experiences that brought them to Vietnam, and how Company commander Harry Smith drove Delta Company to become one of the most outstanding units in the Australian forces.
Each platoon played a crucial role in Delta Company's survival. The artillery's...
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The book starts out picturing a young man who foolishly wants to go to war where he in visions himself receiving all these high class medals for heroism but never once taking into account what it is going to take physically and mentally to get those medals.Hes constantly playing a head game within himself and those that surround him.He like so many other young men of past eras are trying to be something that theyre not and that small initial lie grows...
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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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• Visual history of the Vietnam War
• Hundreds of photos, many of them rare and never published before
• Photos of soldiers, helicopters and ground vehicles, villages and terrain, base camps, and more
• Perfect complement to the narrative accounts in the Stackpole Military History Series, such as Street Without Joy and Land With No Sun
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President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked a complicated series of events with tragic consequences on many fronts.
In Cambodia, the invasion renewed calls for a government independent of western power and influence, eventually resulting in a civil war and the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Here at home, Nixon's expansion of the war galvanized the longstanding...
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In 1967, John Strunk is a newly minted 19-year-old Marine with a 10th grade education, little self-esteem, and no particular understanding of what he is doing in Vietnam. His memoir is an unvarnished account of his personal experiences as part of a Marine Regiment, which over several months repeatedly clashed, buckle-to-buckle, with the 2nd North Vietnam Army 2nd Division, neither side willing to give up control of the strategic valley, no matter...
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Most of what Americans have heard about the Tet Offensive is wrong. The brief battles in early 1968 during the Vietnam conflict marked the dividing line between gradual progress toward possible victory and slow descent to a humiliating defeat. That the enemy was handily defeated on the ground was considered immaterial; that it could mount attacks at all was deemed a military triumph for the Communists. This persistent view of Tet is a defeatist story...
48) LZ Bingo
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In the summer of 1967 20-year-old William K. Boe entered the Vietnam war. Twice wounded during his one-year tour of duty, he endured some of the war's hottest moments, including the Tet offensive. He served honorably, facing an onslaught of bullets, mortars, rockets, hand grenades, and land mines. Through Bill's account, the reader gains a vicarious understanding of the day-to-day life and challenges of an American infantryman in Vietnam.
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Awatched pot never boils? Naturally it does, it's just that the watching makes the wait seem endless. So it is for Frank and many others, who wait, watch, and tediously count off the 730 seemingly everlasting days that constitute the term of National Service.
For Frank, at least, his earlier, naive enthusiasm for, and ready involvement in the calling has all but disappeared, to be, replaced by nagging self-doubts. What had felt, sounded and seemed...
50) Eternally At War
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Vietnam. A USMC A-4 Skyhawk pilot. PTSD. He survived Vietnam, but would he survive its aftermath? The experiences of combat produce different memories by those whom have served. Some return as warriors, seemingly unscathed. With others, their life is never the same. The horrors of each mission come back to haunt them for years. Ten years after returning from Vietnam as a two time decorated A-4 Skyhawk pilot, Captain Robert Gene" Lathrop described...
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La guerre du Vietnam a été menée comme une guerre et elle s'est terminée avec chacune des deux parties croyant être les vainqueurs. Mais cette guerre n'a pas commencé avec une déclaration de guerre officielle. Le nombre de luttes pour le pouvoir qui font partie de la toile vietnamienne est presque écrasant. Les batailles étaient courtes et intenses et ont été menées dans la jungle et les rizières. Une grande partie de la guerre...
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The thrilling story of the young Australian Army engineers of 3 Field Troop who were the first allied soldiers to risk their lives in the darkness of the Vietcong tunnels of South Vietnam. Staring death squarely in the face every day, these young Australian Army engineers not only followed their enemy down into these unknown underground labyrinths, but matched the Vietcong's jungle warfare skills and defused thousands of their clever booby traps....
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On November 13, 1969, ten students at Texas State University were suspended for participating in a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. They had kept vigil in front of the Huntington Mustangs, bearing signs that read, Vietnam Is an Edsel and 44,000 U.S. Dead, For What? While an increasingly hostile anti-protest crowd chanted, Love it or leave it! and Let's string 'em up! It was a day after news of the My Lai massacre broke. Part of a coordinated,...
55) Cowboy: The Interpreter Who Became a Soldier, a Warlord, and One More Casualty of Our War in Vietnam
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Cowboy was handsome, flamboyant, courageous, clever, and cruel. He got his nickname from the Green Berets who worked with him in the Highlands of South Vietnam in the 1960s. "You've got to take the bad with the good," one Special Forces captain explained. "And Cowboy is a good interpreter." But he soon fired the interpreter because prisoners did not fare well when Cowboy was around.And in the end, Cowboy was murdered by his own side, the Montagnard...
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Breve historia de Vietnam. En la Guerra de Vietnam se luchó como en cualquier otra guerra pero terminó con ambas partes creyendo que habían vencido. Eso sí, no arrancó con una declaración de guerra como tal. La gran cantidad de luchas por el poder a lo largo de su historia es abrumadora. Las batallas fueron cortas e intensas y se desarrollaron en las junglas y arrozales. Los métodos guerrilleros tuvieron gran peso en esta guerra.
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In a factual, objective, straight-from-the-shoulder report he analyzes one of the most frustrating wars in history-and answers the question "Why? "The author, an Indian journalist who has covered such world trouble-spots as Korea, Suez, Malaya, and Laos, found Vietnam his most challenging assignment since the war. He describes the rise to power of North Vietnam's Ho Chih Minh-the most important, yet least known, war leader. He sketches the history...
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"I died in Vietnam, but I didn't even know it," said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange-the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange-tells this young vet's story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. During the war, the US sprayed an estimated 12 million gallons of Agent Orange on Vietnam,...
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Fresh out of West Point, John Howard arrived for his first tour in Vietnam in 1965, the first full year of escalation when U.S. troop levels increased to 184,000 from 23,000 the year before. When he returned for a second tour in 1972, troop strength stood at 24,000 and would dwindle to a mere 50 the following year. He thus participated in the very early and very late stages of American military involvement in the Vietnam War. His two tours-one as...
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With this short statement, I will try and give a snapshot of my life at that time, and why I wrote this book.
During my travels, I have lived for at least a year or more in many countries around the world, courtesy of the United States Air Force.
The first foreign country I resided in was Thailand, which started in late 1967 to early 1969. This was the first time in my life that I flew on a sleek 707 airliner, landing halfway around the world and...
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