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Steel Rain The Tet Offensive 1968
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Author : john harrison
language : en
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Release Date : 2018-01-31
Steel Rain The Tet Offensive 1968 written by john harrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-31 with categories.
This book is about the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War, 1968, including the Tet Offensive. Like the original Band of Brothers, we were formed in the States as the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As the story shows we specifically formed the make the second large unit combat parachute jump in the Vietnam War. The first had been made by a battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate). Our original commanding officer was Lt. Col. John P. Geraci. Geraci had started his military career in the Marines during World War II. He continued it as an Army platoon leader in the Korean War and then went on to serve two tours in Vietnam with the Green Berets prior to heading up our battalion. He was good enough and famous enough to inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame at Fort Benning. While we never made that jump, we were ready.The book starts with me attending Airborne School and ends with a case I had as a lawyer long after the Vietnam War was over defending a former 173rd Airborne trooper from criminal charges related to his use of marijuana while undergoing cancer treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital. I tell our story episodically with each chapter capable of being read alone. Many of the stories have already appeared in my blog. Among the readers were many of the men that served with me and that literally brought me home. Some of their comments appear at the beginning of each story.It is a story of men at war doing the best they could in a war they did not choose, in a place we never really did understand. We managed to be there on the bloodiest day, the bloodiest week, the bloodiest month and the bloodiest year of a long bloody war. The 1968 Tet Offensive is a big part of what we saw and what we did in our year in country. War never really leaves you, it brings out the best and the worst in men and because of those two facts normally the story of a war is well told. However, the Vietnam War was different. Never have there been more myths reported as facts. Never has the actual story of the war been more ignored. If you read almost any history of the Vietnam War at some point it will say something like: "The enemy attacks during the Tet Offensive were quickly beaten back except in Khe Sanh, Saigon, Hue and Phan Thiet." Then the history will go on to describe the fighting in Khe Sanh, Saigon and Hue, but Phan Thiet will never be mentioned again. This is our story. We fought and won in Phan Thiet.
The Odyssey Of Echo Company
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Author : Doug Stanton
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-09-19
The Odyssey Of Echo Company written by Doug Stanton and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with History categories.
A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
The Vietnam War
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Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2014-10-27
The Vietnam War written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-27 with History categories.
This Vietnam War history examines the grueling Tet Offensive and America’s struggle against the Viet Cong with more than 180 wartime photographs. On January, 30th, 1968, the North Vietnamese communists launched a coordinated surprise attack across South Vietnam against the South Vietnamese and American armies. Superior firepower eventually crushed the offensive, but it proved to be a major moral victory for the communists, and a turning point in the Vietnam War. In this photographic history, Anthony Tucker-Jones tells the story of Tet through both color and black and white images showing all sides of the conflict. The result is a vivid reassessment of this defining moment in the bitter campaign against communism in South-East Asia. The images show the conditions, the nature of the fighting, and the equipment and the weaponry used—with special focus on the battles for Hue, Khe Sanh, and Saigon. They show the impact of combat on civilian populations as their communities became battlegrounds. And they illustrate why the assault caused many at home across the US to lose faith in America’s commitment to the South.
Tet 1968
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Author : Captain Ronnie E. Ford
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Tet 1968 written by Captain Ronnie E. Ford and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with History categories.
This book brings to light many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968, an event acknowledged as the turning-point of the Vietnam War. Using previously unseen Communist Vietnamese documents combined with sources of Western origin, the author provides a more accurate version of the events, their significance, and reveals the crucial role played by US intelligence.
Sign Here For Sacrifice
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Author : Ian Gardner
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-02
Sign Here For Sacrifice written by Ian Gardner and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-02 with History categories.
A hard-hitting history of the U.S. airborne unit who made a name for themselves in the unforgiving jungles of South Vietnam. “It was easier killing than living.” Third Battalion 506th Airborne veteran Drawing on interviews with veterans, many of whom have never gone on the record before, Ian Gardner follows up his epic trilogy about the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II with the story of the unit's reactivation at the height of the Vietnam War. This is the dramatic history of a band of brothers who served together in Vietnam and who against the odds lived up to the reputation of their World War II forefathers. Brigadier General Salve Matheson's idea was to create an 800-strong battalion of airborne volunteers in the same legendary “Currahee” spirit that had defined the volunteers of 1942. The man he chose to lead them was John Geraci, who would mold this young brotherhood into a highly cohesive and motivated force. In December 1967, the battalion was sent into the Central Highlands of Lam Dong Province. Geraci and his men began their Search and Destroy patrols, which coincided with the North Vietnamese build-up to the Tet Offensive and was a brutal introduction to the reality of a dirty, bloody war. Gardner reveals how it was here that the tenacious volunteers made their mark, just like their predecessors had done in Normandy, and the battalion was ultimately awarded a Valorous Unit Citation. This book shows how and why this unit was deserving of that award, recounting their daily sanguinary struggle in the face of a hostile environment and a determined enemy. Through countless interviews and rare personal photographs, Sign Here for Sacrifice shows the action, leadership, humor and bravery displayed by these airborne warriors.
Tet Offensive 1968
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Author : James R. Arnold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Tet Offensive 1968 written by James R. Arnold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Tet Offensive, 1968 categories.
"The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. It was masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, and was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and other cities instead resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the North. This book reveals why despite this, the Tet Offensive came to be perceived as a defeat by the American people, convincing the public that the war in Vietnam was lost"--Page 4 of cover.
Tet Offensive 1968
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Author : James R. Arnold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Tet Offensive 1968 written by James R. Arnold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Tet Offensive, 1968 categories.
Snakes Rain And The Tet Offensive
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Author : William Ingalls
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Snakes Rain And The Tet Offensive written by William Ingalls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with categories.
This book tells the story of what one year in Viet Nam as a combat engineer was like. Based off over 500 color slides, along with 50 letters home, the resulting commentary is factual, highly detailed, occasionally humorous, and sometimes painful to read and see. In December 1967, when the Tet Offensive began, the author was helping build a Special Forces base camp in the path of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The resulting clash between the Special Forces protecting the combat engineers and the North Vietnamese Army flowing through the jungle around the camp is told in riveting detail. Over 275 color photos and 35,000 words describe and display not only the fire fights and ambushes, but the day-to-day operations of repairing roads, storage yards, company areas, and forward fire bases. The gradual growth of "fragging" and the constant potential of a sudden death from land mines, ambushes, and mortar attacks provide a backdrop for the psychological disintegration of the author as he rides his road grader around the rural countryside surrounding Tay Ninh, repairing roads and simply trying to stay alive. This book gives the reader a unique, detailed look into the Viet Nam war experience. It will be insightful reading for historians interested in how a draftee army operated, and how draftees responded to being turned into instant soldiers. It's all here, told from the perspective of "ground-pounders" and "crawlers" caught up in deadly events not of their own making.
Ss Steel Rain
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Author : Tim Ripley
language : en
Publisher: Zenith Press
Release Date : 2001
Ss Steel Rain written by Tim Ripley and has been published by Zenith Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The well-equipped armored divisions of the Waffen SS were among the most effective German orders of battle in World War II. This book offers accounts of the battles in which they took part, as well as firsthand anecdotes from surviving Waffen soldiers and from Allied troops whom fought against them. Strategies and weaponry are detailed, as are major battles like the effort to hold Caen, Operation Market Garden and the Ardennes Offensive.
Tet Offensive 1968
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Author : James R. Arnold
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The American War Library in Gardena, California, presents a collection of Internet resources on the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. The offensive involved attacks by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese against cities in South Vietnam. These attacks were considered a turning point in the war.