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Author: John Lund Publisher: Jj's Product Development ISBN: 9781946195319 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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The year was 1967, and the United States was in a vicious, deadly war against North Vietnam-a war in which political leaders lied to the American people. President Johnson commandeered the American youth, extracting them from their homes and their communities so they could fight a perpetual war he had no strategy or mettle to win.I was one of those American youth whose life changed overnight. When I joined the US Navy, I was sucked up in the vortex of deceit surrounding this trumped-up war. I served three combat deployments on the USS Hancock (CVA-19) aircraft carrier. It was a time of danger, affliction, toil, and stolen years. It was also a time of heartbreak, as I was painfully separated from Sandra, the love of my life and my future.By the grace of God, I returned home. But 58,318 of our finest soldiers, airmen, and sailors came back in body bags. And like most of those who returned home, I still carry the mental and physical scars that still linger on today.This is my story.
Author: John Lund Publisher: Jj's Product Development ISBN: 9781946195319 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
The year was 1967, and the United States was in a vicious, deadly war against North Vietnam-a war in which political leaders lied to the American people. President Johnson commandeered the American youth, extracting them from their homes and their communities so they could fight a perpetual war he had no strategy or mettle to win.I was one of those American youth whose life changed overnight. When I joined the US Navy, I was sucked up in the vortex of deceit surrounding this trumped-up war. I served three combat deployments on the USS Hancock (CVA-19) aircraft carrier. It was a time of danger, affliction, toil, and stolen years. It was also a time of heartbreak, as I was painfully separated from Sandra, the love of my life and my future.By the grace of God, I returned home. But 58,318 of our finest soldiers, airmen, and sailors came back in body bags. And like most of those who returned home, I still carry the mental and physical scars that still linger on today.This is my story.
Author: William Higgins Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492980223 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 242
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This book chronicles the deployments and battles of Charlie Company, 1-506th Infantry during the Vietnam war, 1967-1971. Significant activities taking place within the battalion are also covered. It covers the experiences of a mix of 60-70 young men aged 18-20 during the course of their 12-month war.
Author: Robert D. Sander Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806145897 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
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In 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the North Vietnamese Army’s main logistical artery, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at its hub, Tchepone in Laos, an operation that, according to General Creighton Abrams, could have been the decisive battle of the war, hastening the withdrawal of U.S. forces and ensuring the survival of South Vietnam. The outcome: defeat of the South Vietnamese Army and heavy losses of U.S. helicopters and aircrews, but a successful preemptive strike that met President Nixon’s near-term political objectives. Author Robert Sander, a helicopter pilot in Lam Son 719, explores why an operation of such importance failed. Drawing on archives and interviews, and firsthand testimony and reports, Sander chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but also the maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during the ten-year effort to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam leading up to Lam Son 719. The result is a picture from disparate perspectives: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations; the South Vietnamese government led by President Nguyen Van Thieu; and senior U.S. military commanders and army aviators. Sander’s conclusion is at once powerful and persuasively clear. Lam Son 719 was doomed in both the planning and execution—a casualty of domestic and international politics, flawed assumptions, incompetent execution, and the resolve of the North Vietnamese Army. A powerful work of military and political history, this book offers eloquent testimony that “failure, like success, cannot be measured in absolute terms.”
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Languages : en Pages :
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Includes scanned copies of the actual staff journals, transcribed versions of the journals, a partial glossary of commonly used terms and acronymns, and high resolution maps obtained from The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University.
Author: Maj. Gary L. Telfer Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1787200841 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 827
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This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps. This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF’s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.
Author: Dr. Graham A. Cosmas Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1787200795 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1564
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This publication represents the eighth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the gradual withdrawal in 1970-1971 of Marine combat forces from South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, as part of an overall American strategy of turning the ground war against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong over to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam. Although written from the perspective of III MAF and the ground war in I Corps, the volume treats the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese Armed Forces, the Seventh Fleet Special Landing Force, and Marines on the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, in Saigon. There are separate chapters on Marine air, artillery, and logistics. An attempt has been made to place the Marine role in relation to the overall effort.
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