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The Sun Sets On Vietnam: The Firebase War

Author : Robert Haseman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483445852
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Sun Sets On Vietnam: The Firebase War written by Robert Haseman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving his college deferment behind, this son of a WWII veteran enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1967 to take part in the Vietnam War. He was sent to Officer Candidate School, became a 2nd Lieutenant and in 1969 led an infantry platoon in combat when he was 21. In late 1969, President Nixon began withdrawing troops creating doubt about the successful outcome of the war and when the author returned home in 1970 he realized his Vietnam service was not respected. He put the war out of his mind, got married and began his career, but after retirement went back to write about his war experiences. Writing brought some closure but also compelled him to join some other veterans in 2019 to return to a mountaintop in western Quang Tri Province to revisit the old FSB Russell. In so doing he learned some things he had repressed or never knew and gained a truer understanding of the emotional cost of the war.

The Sun Sets On Vietnam; The Firebase War, Revised Edition

Author : Robert B Haseman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716546044
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Sun Sets On Vietnam; The Firebase War, Revised Edition written by Robert B Haseman and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving his college deferment behind, this son of a WWII veteran enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1967, to take part in the Vietnam War. He was sent to Officer Candidate School, became a 2nd Lieutenant and in 1969 led an infantry platoon in combat when he was 21. In late 1969, President Nixon began withdrawing troops creating doubt about the successful outcome of the war and when the author returned home he realized his Vietnam service was not respected. He put the war out of his mind, got married and began his career, but after retirement went back to write about his war experiences. Writing brought some closure but also compelled him to join some other Marines in 2019 to return to a mountaintop in western Quang Tri Province to revisit FSB Russell. In so doing he learned some things he had repressed or never knew and gained a truer understanding of the emotional cost of the war.

Abandoned in Hell

Author : William Albracht
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451468090
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned in Hell written by William Albracht and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing memoir of military courage at a remote outpost during the Vietnam War “A riveting, dead-true account in the tradition of Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.”—Steven Pressfield, national bestselling author of The Lion’s Gate In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Firebase Kate held by only 27 American soldiers and 156 Montagnard militiamen. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments—some six thousand men—crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. Outnumbered three dozen to one, Albracht’s men held off the assault but, after five days, Kate’s defenders were out of ammo and water. Refusing to die or surrender, Albracht led his troops off the hill and on a daring night march through enemy lines. Abandoned in Hell is an astonishing memoir of leadership, sacrifice, and brutal violence, a riveting journey into Vietnam’s heart of darkness, and a compelling reminder of the transformational power of individual heroism. Not since Lone Survivor and We Were Soldiers Once...and Young has there been such a gripping and authentic account of battlefield courage. INCLUDES PHOTOS

The Firebase

Author : Glyn Haynie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Firebase written by Glyn Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former brother in arms has done the unforgivable-Carter and the others must do whatever it takes to survive and find justice.A prisoner, transported to a plane for a court-martial in the States, will face an almost certain death penalty. This promise of justice is a small comfort for Carter and his squad. But a fortuitously timed rocket attack sees the prisoner freed and he slips away into the Vietnamese jungle.Carter, Morrison, Anderson, and Miller are pulling security detail at a firebase in the Truong Son Mountains when they hear the news . . . and they know their lives are on the line.It's going to take everything they have to withstand what's coming next-an attack so vicious and harrowing the men know there's no possible way they'll make it out alive. But these men will fight to their very last breath to eliminate the threat. May the fallen never be forgotten.The fourth in the action-packed Vietnam War novella series by veteran Glyn Haynie; this is the final, ultimate battle for Andy Carter and his squad of brothers . . .

The Siege of LZ Kate

Author : Arthur G. Sharp
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811713865
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Siege of LZ Kate written by Arthur G. Sharp and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1969, a force of 150 Americans and their South Vietnamese allies were surrounded by 5,000 North Vietnamese Army soldiers. This is the story of their desperate defense and against-all-odds escape. • Details on the Americans' harrowing escape, which covered 2.5 miles of enemy-infested ground in five hours in the dark of night • Explains how the Americans were placed in this precarious position mere miles from the Cambodian border • What this battle says about President Richard Nixon's Vietnamization policy

Soldiering On in a Dying War

Author : William J. Shkurti
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700634037
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Soldiering On in a Dying War written by William J. Shkurti and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the autumn of 1971 a war-weary American public had endured a steady stream of bad news about the conduct of its soldiers in Vietnam. It included reports of fraggings, massacres, and cover-ups, mutinies, increased racial tensions, and soaring drug abuse. Then six soldiers at Fire Support Base Pace, a besieged U.S. artillery outpost near the Cambodian border, balked at an order to conduct a nighttime ambush patrol. Four days later, twenty soldiers from a second unit objected to patrolling even in daylight. The sensation these events triggered in the media, along with calls for a congressional investigation, reinforced for the American public the image of a dysfunctional military on the edge of collapse. For a time Pace became the face of all that was wrong with American troops during the extended withdrawal from Vietnam. William Shkurti, however, argues that the incidents at Firebase Pace have been misunderstood for four decades. Shkurti, who served as an artillery officer not far from Pace, uses declassified reports, first-person interviews, and other sources to reveal that these incidents were only temporary disputes involving veteran soldiers exercising common sense. Shkurti also uses the Pace incidents to bring an entire war and our withdrawal from it into much sharper focus. He reevaluates the performance and motivation of U.S. ground troops and their commanders during this period, as well as that of their South Vietnamese allies and North Vietnamese adversaries; reassesses the media and its coverage of this phase of the war; and shows how some historians have helped foster misguided notions about what actually happened at Pace. By taking a closer look at what we thought we knew, Shkurti persuasively demonstrates how combat units still in harm's way adapted to the challenges before them and soldiered on in a war everyone else wanted to be over. In doing so, he also suggests a context to better understand the challenges that may lie ahead in the drawdown of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Soldiering After The Vietnam War

Author : Glyn Haynie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998209555
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Soldiering After The Vietnam War written by Glyn Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haynie shares his struggles and his successes, completing a 20-year career in the Army culminating as an instructor at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy. His story is one that clearly demonstrates just how wrong those protestors were, and just how much our country does owe these men and women who served their country with bravery and honor.

Armed with Abundance

Author : Meredith H. Lair
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834815
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Armed with Abundance written by Meredith H. Lair and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war

Hell On A Hill Top

Author : Benjamin L. Harrison
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595327303
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Hell On A Hill Top written by Benjamin L. Harrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HELL ON A HILL TOP-for four months in 1970, Hell raged on the hill tops of Ripcord, 805, 902 and 1000, all just east of the A Shau Valley. HELL ON A HILL TOP Instead of backing away from the fight, the North Vietnamese mortar, recoilless rifle, heavy machine gun, sapper and regular infantry attacks increased. The last offensive around Ripcord was starting to look like the last stand. Unwilling to keep American soldiers at high risk at this stage of the war; Ripcord was evacuated on 23 July. The battle went unnoticed for 30 years until Keith Nolan's book, RIPCORD, was published. As powerful and gripping as was the story of great leadership and courageous fighting by our soldiers, the magnitude of the enemy force still remained unknown. The author, the 3rd Brigade commander during the siege and evacuation, made trips to Vietnam in 2001 and 2004 and interviewed the 324B Division Commander whose first-ever division sole mission, was to destroy Firebase Ripcord. The full story is now told.

Time-line Vietnam

Author : Ray A. Bows
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929973036
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Time-line Vietnam written by Ray A. Bows and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Personal experience of the Vietnam War by a Vietnam veteran who served with the 25th Infantry Division, detailing how soldier's remains were returned to the United States for burial. A heartfelt, personal and soul-searching look back at one man's war, delivering generous portions of encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the Vietnam War, described as a serious and honest endeavor.

Some Gave it All

Author : Danny Lane
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1613398263
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Some Gave it All written by Danny Lane and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an incredible true story, a young Marine fights an unbelievable battle in the abyss of Vietnam. Get a front row seat to the intense action, courage and sacrifice he and other Marines endured. Experience the ferocity of battle; the deep bonds of brotherhood; and the stinging sweat of fear that hangs persistently over the jungle canopy. Imagine lying in a foxhole when a “Broken Arrow” goes into effect as the enemy sappers overtake their position, forcing these young soldiers to fight the enemy hand to hand. This is the gripping story of Marine Corporal Danny Lane and other young Marines that stood the faith with God, and the Marine Corps during the most agonizing times that no one would want to endure. Instead of a hero’s welcome, he and other survivors came home to a country that didn’t honor their sacrifices. “War is Hell” but for some, surviving is worse!

The Wars We Took to Vietnam

Author : Milton J. Bates
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520204336
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Wars We Took to Vietnam written by Milton J. Bates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previous scholarship has established that American storytellers turned Vietnam into a landscape of American myth. Bates's lucid and judicious study . . . is a valuable addition to the conversation regarding the legacy of Vietnam."—John Hellmann, author of American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam "An absolutely stunning achievement. Milton Bates presents an incisively accurate analysis of the attitudes that shaped and controlled Americans' perceptions during the 1960s and '70s. He fuses literary analysis with historical scholarship to offer a comprehensive study of American thought and writing before, during, and after the war years. This is a book to be read carefully—and savored."—John Clark Pratt, author of The Laotian Fragments

Sappers in the Wire

Author : Keith W. Nolan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671002541
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Sappers in the Wire written by Keith W. Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the costly 1971 surprise attack on Firebase Mary Ann draws on declassified documents and interviews with more than fifty veterans of the 1st Battalion of the 46th Infantry. Reprint.

Extraordinary Valor

Author : William Reeder Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493063685
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Valor written by William Reeder Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Congressional Medal of Honor Account Extraordinary Valor is the story of Special Forces Major John Duffy’s Medal of Honor gallantry at Firebase Charlie, and the heroism of South Vietnamese paratrooper, Major Lê Văn Mễ, who fought by his side. It is the true story of their battle to defend Charlie Hill, a key to holding Vietnam's Central Highlands during North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive. John Joseph Duffy was born in New York City; Le Van Mễ in a small village outside the old imperial capital of Hue in South Vietnam. Living on opposite sides of the globe, they come together in the heat of war in Southeast Asia when Major Duffy is assigned as the American advisor to the elite South Vietnamese 11th Airborne Battalion where Mễ is second in command. The battalion receives the order to "Fight to the death" on Charlie Hill. After two weeks of intense combat, hundreds lay dead and those still standing are out of food, water, and medical supplies. Their ammunition is nearly gone. Duffy and Mễ draw on their bond of friendship and trust to make a selfless two-man last stand against the final North Vietnamese human wave assault. Both are badly wounded, Duffy multiple times. Their heroic action allows 36 members of the 471-man battalion to escape and be rescued. The rest are killed, captured, or missing in action. This is their story.

The Last Firebase

Author : Lydia M. Fish
Publisher : White Mane Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Last Firebase written by Lydia M. Fish and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vietnam War Trilogy

Author : John M. Del Vecchio
Publisher : Warriors Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1879 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War Trilogy written by John M. Del Vecchio and published by Warriors Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 1879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic novels by John M. Del Vecchio about Vietnam, Cambodia, and the aftermath of war. A classic combat novel and National Book Award finalist, The 13th Valley follows the terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in the North Vietnamese Army–infested mountains of the I Corps Tactical Zone. Spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of conflict and darkness, this harrowing account plunges Chelini into jungle warfare and traces his evolution from semi-pacifist to all-out, combat-crazed soldier. The seminal novel on the Vietnam experience, The 13th Valley is a classic that illuminates the war in Southeast Asia like no other book. Some reviewers have called For the Sake of All Living Things the most terrifying book they have ever read. This saga follows a rural Cambodian family—father Chhoun; his beautiful daughter, Vathana; and his young son, Samnang, who becomes the Khmer Rouge yothea Met Nang—from the mid-sixties through the escalation of the civil war, into the horrors of the holocaust, and finally to the country’s quest for rebirth. Documenting their story is American Special Forces Captain John Sullivan who served with the Military Equipment Delivery Team, and who has fallen in love with Vathana. Carry Me Home brings the troops back to America—a nation confused and divided by the wars in Southeast Asia. In this poignant epic, Del Vecchio transports a group of soldiers to their final battlefield: the home front. High Meadow Farm, in the fertile hill country of central Pennsylvania, becomes their salvation. In Vietnam they had been brothers in arms. Now, in the face of personal tragedy and bureaucratic deception, they create an even deeper allegiance—one of the spirit and of the land. This is the remarkable story of the veterans’ struggle to find one another and themselves. In its scope, breadth, and brilliance, Carry Me Home is much more than a novel about Vietnam vets; it is a testament to history and hope, to hometowns and homecomings, to love and loss, and to faith and family. It is an inspiring and unforgettable novel about America itself.

War Stories

Author : Conrad M. Leighton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623449
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book War Stories written by Conrad M. Leighton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles. His stories gave the Army's version of events, sprinkled with human interest and humor. They include his observations and photographs of jungle missions, life on firebases, struggles in the rear and his own survival as a harried frontline journalist. He also wrote almost daily letters home to his parents--personal dispatches filled with frank commentary and poignant, at times disturbing, anecdotes. His stories and letters are combined here in chronological order, providing a richly detailed narrative of combat in Vietnam.