Author : Mark W. Woodruff
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
In May, 1968, American casualites were running as high as 500 men per week killed in action. Most American troops were required in the enormous logistic "tail" necessary to fight a war 10,000 miles from home.
Author : Mark Woodruff
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0891418660
Along with a half million other young men, Mark Woodruff put his life on the line to serve his country in Vietnam. Like so many others, he returned home to find himself regarded not as a hero but as a humiliating reminder of the only war the United States ever lost. This Marine, however, is determined to set the record straight. Woodruff never wavers from the cold, hard facts in this riveting book. Battle by battle, Unheralded Victory provides incontrovertible proof that the United States won this war, from the vaunted 1968 Tet Offensive–in reality a shattering defeat that decimated the Viet Cong–to Linebacker II, the final knockout blow that forced North Vietnam to the table. Make no mistake: our warriors in Vietnam were victorious. It’s time America sat up and took notice.
Author : Phil Ball
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1476624844
The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape; only upon reflection years later did he realize that the self-confidence instilled in him by his drill instructors had probably saved his life in Vietnam. A few months after boot camp, Private Ball was shipped out to Vietnam, joining F Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, near Khe Sanh. As a grunt, in the vernacular of the Corps, Ball, like the other youths of F Company, did a difficult and deadly job in such places as the A Shau Valley, Leatherneck Square, the DMZ and other obscure but critical I Corps locales. His--their--fear of death mingled with homesickness. Little did they realize that the horrors of the Vietnam War--horrors that while in-country they often claimed did not even exist--would haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Author : Charles Jones
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0811750825
Winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for Biography, 2006. Now available in paperback.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Joel Lee Russell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1893652025
“The true life story of the adventures of Joel, from the frozn wasteland of Northern Ohio to the sweltering battlefields of South Vietnam, Joel takes you into the battles with him during the Tet Offensive. Read about the radical transformation of a dope smoking weirdo into a man of destiny. Excellent reading.” -- Patrick Russell “A great book of life, taking us on a roller coaster ride of the Spirit. Many laughs and many tears as you follow through the humor and pain. Very strong testimony that will win souls!” -- Buster Curtsinger
Author : LtCol Ray Stewart USMC
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1796054054
Book Two, the second of a three-book series, continues from 1966 in Book One, to cover the action of Marine Corps Tankers and Ontos crewmen fighting the locally-grown Viet Cong, the better armed, trained, organized, and equipped Viet Cong Main Forces, and the North Vietnamese Army Regulars from 1967 thru 1968 in I Corps, South Vietnam. As in Book One, and to continue in Book Three, it features hundreds of personal stories, on-the-spot in real time, interviews of Marines just returning from their fight – all which is framed within the official unit command chronologies and after action reports, including documented “lessons learned”. The maps, personal pictures, organizational charts, and the citing of each Marine who gave his life are, also linked to the Vietnam Wall and to the Foundation’s web site, with volumes of additional information about the Marines who left their sweat and blood in Vietnam battling their communist enemy.
Author : Alan Ross
Publisher : Author House
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491807164
In the Viet Nam war, the battle around the base camp of Khe Sanh was probably the most publicized story of the war. The story of Khe Sanh started a year before the "Siege" that lasted for 77 days. It started because the area in the far northwest part of South Vietnam got the attention of the NVA. They couldn't allow a base that was so close to the border of Laos, so close to the border of North Viet Nam, to go about it's business as usual without a challenge by the army of the North. Giap was world famous for defeating the French army in 1954 in an area that looked a lot like the area around Khe Sanh. He used and developed tactics in the French Indochina war that continued in use against the Americans and South Vietnamese Army. He first tried to put his army in the high ground surrounding the air strip at Khe Sanh and was defeated in the Hill Fights of April and May, 1967, some of the bloodiest fighting in the war. For several months after that bitter battle, he left the area alone, but in January of 1968, he decided to attack again.
Author : Charles Richard Smith
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN :
Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN :
