The First Marine Captured In Vietnam
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The First Marine Captured In Vietnam
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Author : Donald L. Price
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-24
The First Marine Captured In Vietnam written by Donald L. Price and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-24 with History categories.
Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook was the first U.S. Marine captured in Vietnam, the first and only Marine in history to earn the Medal of Honor while in captivity; and the first Marine POW to have a U.S. Navy ship named in his honor, the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75). On December 31, 1964, while serving as an observer with a South Vietnamese Marine Corps battalion on a combat operation against Viet Cong forces, he was captured near the village of Binh Gia in South Vietnam. Until his death in captivity in December 1967, Cook led ten POWs in a series of primitive jungle camps. This first book-length biography concentrates especially on Cook’s three years in captivity, and is the first book exclusively about a Marine POW held in South Vietnam. Throughout, Cook’s adherence to the Corps’ traditional leadership principles and knowledge of the Code of Conduct are highlighted. His biography provides a unique case study of exemplary leadership under extremely difficult conditions. Includes 68 photographs.
The First Marine Captured In Vietnam
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Author : Donald L. Price
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009
The First Marine Captured In Vietnam written by Donald L. Price and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This is the first book-length biography of Colonel Donald G. Cook. With background information on Cook's life and prewar career, it concentrates especially on his three years in captivity, and is the first book exclusively about a Marine POW held in South Vietnam. The author outlines the circumstances surrounding Cook's Medal of Honor citation and death"--Provided by publisher.
U S Marines In Vietnam
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Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
U S Marines In Vietnam written by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
The Hill Fights
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Author : Edward F. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Hill Fights written by Edward F. Murphy and has been published by Presidio Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
While the seventy-seven-day siege of Khe Sanh in early 1968 remains one of the most highly publicized clashes of the Vietnam War, scant attention has been paid to the first battle of Khe Sanh, also known as “the Hill Fights.” Although this harrowing combat in the spring of 1967 provided a grisly preview of the carnage to come at Khe Sanh, few are aware of the significance of the battles, or even their existence. For more than thirty years, virtually the only people who knew about the Hill Fights were the Marines who fought them. Now, for the first time, the full story has been pieced together by acclaimed Vietnam War historian Edward F. Murphy, whose definitive analysis admirably fills this significant gap in Vietnam War literature. Based on first-hand interviews and documentary research, Murphy’s deeply informed narrative history is the only complete account of the battles, their origins, and their aftermath. The Marines at the isolated Khe Sanh Combat Base were tasked with monitoring the strategically vital Ho Chi Minh trail as it wound through the jungles in nearby Laos. Dominated by high hills on all sides, the combat base had to be screened on foot by the Marine infantrymen while crack, battle-hardened NVA units roamed at will through the high grass and set up elaborate defenses on steep, sun-baked overlooks. Murphy traces the bitter account of the U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh from the outset in 1966, revealing misguided decisions and strategies from above, and capturing the chain of hill battles in stark detail. But the Marines themselves supply the real grist of the story; it is their recollections that vividly re-create the atmosphere of desperation, bravery, and relentless horror that characterized their combat. Often outnumbered and outgunned by a hidden enemy—and with buddies lying dead or wounded beside them—these brave young Americans fought on. The story of the Marines at Khe Sanh in early 1967 is a microcosm of the Corps’s entire Vietnam War and goes a long way toward explaining why their casualties in Vietnam exceeded, on a Marine-in-combat basis, even the tremendous losses the Leathernecks sustained during their ferocious Pacific island battles of World War II. The Hill Fights is a damning indictment of those responsible for the lives of these heroic Marines. Ultimately, the high command failed them, their tactics failed them, and their rifles failed them. Only the Marines themselves did not fail. Under fire, trapped in a hell of sudden death meted out by unseen enemies, they fought impossible odds with awesome courage and uncommon valor.
The 9th Engineer Battalion First Marine Division In Vietnam
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Author : Jean Shellenbarger
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-03
The 9th Engineer Battalion First Marine Division In Vietnam written by Jean Shellenbarger and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with History categories.
The combat engineers of the First Marine Division, 9th Engineer Battalion, risked their lives daily in Vietnam as they cleared the roads of mines, repaired and paved the famous “Highway 1,” disarmed booby traps, built bridges and culverts, and destroyed enemy bunkers and tunnels. Despite their sacrifices and pain, the combat engineers in Vietnam have heretofore largely been ignored. This is the first oral (or other) history of the 9th Engineers, the only Marine battalion formed specifically to go to Vietnam. More than 35 men of the 9th talk about why they joined the Marines and their experiences in basic training. They speak candidly and compellingly about their five years (1966 to 1970) in country. The soldiers also discuss what it was like to come home and get on with their lives.
1st Marine Division In Vietnam
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Author : Simon Dunstan
language : en
Publisher:
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U S Marines In Vietnam The War That Would Not End 1971 1973
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Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
U S Marines In Vietnam The War That Would Not End 1971 1973 written by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
Road Of 10 000 Pains
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Author : Otto J. Lehrack
language : en
Publisher: Zenith Imprint
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Road Of 10 000 Pains written by Otto J. Lehrack and has been published by Zenith Imprint this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with History categories.
This is an epic oral history of Vietnam's bloodiest campaign, fought for seven months in a series of battles, most of them within four miles of each other, along Route 534. Staring in October 1967, orders came down to the 2nd North Vietnamese Army Division commanding them to join with the local Viet Cong and seize the city of Danang in the Tet Offensive. After fighting for seven months in the Que Son Valley, the division was so battered that it failed to carry out its mission, with only one platoon making it inside the city limits. This is the true-life accounts of what fighting was like in that narrow, bloody valley from the veteran's own mouths, and how that saved Danang from suffering the same fate as Hue City
The Battle For Khe Sanh
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Author : Moyers S. Shore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Battle For Khe Sanh written by Moyers S. Shore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.
U S Marines In Vietnam Cosmas G A Murray T P Vietnamization And Redeployment 1970 1971
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Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
U S Marines In Vietnam Cosmas G A Murray T P Vietnamization And Redeployment 1970 1971 written by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Vietnam War, 1961-1975 categories.