Download or read book 363 Days in Vietnam written by Michael Stuart Baskin and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of what the average person knows about the Vietnam War is gleaned from movies, TV dramas and documentaries. Almost every one of those revolves around the infantry. What everybody doesn't know is that Less than 20% of the guys in Vietnam were in the infantry. The +80% of us that weren't 'grunts' have ALL kinds of stories to tell even if they're not 'war' stories, per se. When I considered writing my recollections of Vietnam, I launched into it and like a line of dominoes, one story after the other seemed to fall from my memory onto the page. I've tried to keep the prose real without being vulgar. Some events involve themes that include sex, drugs and gore. It gets very personal, somewhat controversial and, at times, there's no way to avoid how gruesome it was. This is what I experienced - it's true. Nothing is added, nothing is invented. My story may seem unusual, but there were tens of thousands of non-infantry, Vietnam vets who confronted similar situations, challenges, screw-ups and disasters without recognition or making the effort to write them down.
Download or read book A Memoir Of 363 Days In Vietnam written by Jeffrey Chiaravalle and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for a lot of shooting and heroics, this is not your book. What it is, is a very realistic portrait of a tour of duty for many American soldiers in Vietnam. My story gets very personal, somewhat controversial and, at times, there's no way to avoid how gruesome it was. It's informative, entertaining and sometimes funny. This is what I experienced - it's true. Nothing is added, nothing is invented. It may seem unusual and probably will surprise you, but there were tens of thousands of non-infantry, Vietnam vets who would have confronted similar situations, challenges, screw-ups and disasters. When added to the existing narrative, these stories help to complete the big picture of what happened during the tragic conflict.
Download or read book My Days in Vietnam written by Robert A Rupp and published by Robert A. Rupp. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of my Vietnam War experiences from November 1970 to October 1971. I was stationed for 10 months on Hon Tre Island off the Nha Trang city mainland and the rest of my tour at Cam Ranh Bay Air Base. As an Officer and Weapons Controller/Director, I was responsible for guiding pilots of U.S. aircraft to and from their battle and reconnaissance missions using radar equipment. I was also a Pay Officer for the base camp consisting of other officers and enlisted men who supported our mission. This required a monthly drive by jeep to Cam Ranh Air Base to pick up and bring back pay for the men. Often boring, often stressful, sometimes terrifying, and sometimes fun and games, this is what I did in the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Recollections Of 363 Days In Vietnam written by Pattie Herston and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for a lot of shooting and heroics, this is not your book. What it is, is a very realistic portrait of a tour of duty for many American soldiers in Vietnam. My story gets very personal, somewhat controversial and, at times, there's no way to avoid how gruesome it was. It's informative, entertaining and sometimes funny. This is what I experienced - it's true. Nothing is added, nothing is invented. It may seem unusual and probably will surprise you, but there were tens of thousands of non-infantry, Vietnam vets who would have confronted similar situations, challenges, screw-ups and disasters. When added to the existing narrative, these stories help to complete the big picture of what happened during the tragic conflict.
Download or read book Vietnam Recollections written by Kate Campuzano and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for a lot of shooting and heroics, this is not your book. What it is, is a very realistic portrait of a tour of duty for many American soldiers in Vietnam. My story gets very personal, somewhat controversial and, at times, there's no way to avoid how gruesome it was. It's informative, entertaining and sometimes funny. This is what I experienced - it's true. Nothing is added, nothing is invented. It may seem unusual and probably will surprise you, but there were tens of thousands of non-infantry, Vietnam vets who would have confronted similar situations, challenges, screw-ups and disasters. When added to the existing narrative, these stories help to complete the big picture of what happened during the tragic conflict.
Download or read book When I Turned Nineteen written by Glyn Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who'd enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who'd all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time. I share my experiences about weeks of boredom and minutes to hours of terror and surviving the heat, carrying a 60-pound rucksack, monsoons, a forest fire, a typhoon, building a firebase, fear, death and fighting the enemy while mentally, physically, and morally exhausted.
Download or read book Five Years to Freedom written by James N. Rowe and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit. His story is gripping.
Download or read book One Remf s Tour of Duty in Vietnam A Memoir written by James Paul Lott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were no front lines in Vietnam, this nation's first full-out guerrilla war. No place in the country was ever totally safe. You never could let down your guard. As James Paul Lott was told about the people before going: "They can be your friend during the day and your enemy at night. He said the VC were everywhere, and they could very well be the barber who cuts your hair or the ten-year-old kid who asks to polish your boots. He said to be very careful wherever I went and whatever I did."
Download or read book 351 Days in Da Nang written by Ray Norton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the spring of1967 and the war in Viet Nam is spiraling out of control. Ray is on scholastic suspension from the University of Texas in Austin. He has to make a choice, get drafted and end up in Viet Nam or join the Navy Reserve. He joins the Navy Reserve and ends up in Viet Nam anyway. During his 351 days in Da Nang, he is at the Naval Support Activity on the Tien Sha peninsula as a Security guard, on the Monkey Mountain patrol, and as a NSA Investigator. While in Da Nang, he experiences rocket attacks, an ammunition dump explosion, drug deals, police raids, and the birth of his first child, Rebecca. He also makes two life long friends that contribute to this story. Cheryl, his wife of 45 years, has been a tremendous help in editing this story.
Download or read book Lieutenant Dangerous written by Jeff Danziger and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene." —KIRKUS (starred review) "Funny, biting, thoughtful and wholly original." —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity. If there is any discipline at the start of wars it dissipates as the soldiers themselves become aware of the pointlessness of what they are being told to do. A conversation with a group of today’s military age men and women about America’s involvement in Vietnam inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: “War is interesting,” he reveals, “if you can avoid getting killed, and don’t mind loud noises.” Fans of his cartooning will recognize his mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat experiences: “I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops usually fails.” Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites his audience—in particular the young friends who inspired him to write this informative and rollicking memoir—to ponder: “What would you do? . . . Could you summon the bravery—or the internal resistance—to simply refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or would you be like me?”
Download or read book Vietnam Vanguard written by Ron Boxall and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War, and Australia’s part in it, was a major military event, calling for willingness to face death and destruction on the battlefield on the part of those sent there, especially the men of our infantry battalions who formed the spearhead of our forces in Vietnam. For many reasons, the Australian public know relatively little about what our Army did in Vietnam during the war, particularly during the years of our peak commitment, 1965–72. This book attempts to make the true nature of the war clearer to readers, emphasising how hard fought it was during major operations. Twenty-seven of the contributing authors of this book were involved in the 1966 deployment of the 1st Australian Task Force into Phuoc Tuy Province. This formation was the first Australian Army force larger than an infantry battalion group to be deployed into a major war since World War II. 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment (5 RAR), was in the vanguard as the task force’s first element committed to operations to seize and occupy Nui Dat base and embark on establishing dominance over the enemy. The narratives presented in this book give rare insights into thoughts of the soldiers at the time and how they have come to view the Australian Government’s hurried expansion of its initial commitment to that war, the Army’s state of preparedness for that wider involvement, and how those in its forefront adapted to get the job done, both in and out of operations, despite numerous shortcomings in higher level planning. Both professional soldiers and conscripted national servicemen have contributed viewpoints to these pages.
Download or read book Nam written by Mark Baker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews the men and women who served in the Vietnam War, the war that tore America apart.
Download or read book Survivors written by Zalin Grant and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book may well be the most unusual document to come out of the Viet Nam war. It is the moving story of nine American soldiers and pilots who were captured and held prisoner for five years. It could only be told in their own words; and so the author interviewed each of the nine men, and edited and wove their accounts together to form a single, compelling narrative of war and survival. For three years these Americans were held in a Viet Cong jungle prison, where they struggled against starvation- and themselves. They describe the details of their daily existence as the war ebbed and flowed around them: the rats, the terror of American bombing raids, the sickness. Through juxtaposition of their individual stories we see the subtle, destructive tensions that operate on a group of men in such desperate circumstances. Then they marched up the Ho Chi Minh trail to Hanoi, where their physical ordeal gave way to an agonizing moral dilemma. Should they join the "Peace Committee", a group of POW's protesting the war? Or should they resist their captors by all possible means as ordered by the secret American commander of the Hanoi prison? After three years in the jungle on the edge of survival, each man had to answer the questions: Who am I? What do I believe? These nine men form a cross section of the army we sent to Viet Nam. Their words illuminate not only their individual background and experience, but also the meaning of the war for us all.
Download or read book U S Marines in Vietnam written by Gary L. Telfer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Saigon s Fall written by Amanda C. Demmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new understanding of US policy toward Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War based on fresh archival discoveries.
Download or read book King of the Battlefield written by Mark Pittman and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King of the Battlefield by Mark Pittman
Download or read book Dragon Chaser written by Mark Lloyd and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nineteen-year-old Mark Lloyd entered the US Army in Seattle, Washington, in 1968, he thought he was invulnerable. His induction that year marked the beginning of a long career in public service. In Dragon Chaser, he recounts his journey--entering the army, earning a green beret, serving in Vietnam, working as a police officer on the streets of south central Los Angeles, and joining the DEA. In this memoir, Lloyd tells how he became an undercover narcotics agent and served in the world's illegal drug hot spots--chasing the dragon of illicit heroin in Los Angeles, Guam, and Thailand. Dragon Chaser narrates how he led teams of DEA agents raiding jungle cocaine laboratories and ambushing clandestine airstrips in Peru, how he helped solve DEA's worst case of corruption in Los Angeles, and how he managed some of DEA's foreign operations while assigned to DEA headquarters. The stories include Lloyd's deployment on a special mission to war-scarred Bosnia, and how he successfully handled a difficult narcotics case involving a DEA employee falsely imprisoned by the recalcitrant Pakistani government. A remarkable memoir of a baby boomer's adventures in public service, Dragon Chaser recounts Lloyd's participation and observations in some of America's actions, both major and minor, throughout the last four decades.
