epub, mobi |eng | 2004-07-18 | Author:Otto Lehrack

THE ATTACK ON NAM YEN 3 As Hotel, 2/4’s 1st and 3d platoons closed on Nam Yen 3 the first sign of life from the village was a black-pajama-clad man ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Veith [Veith, George]

“MAINTAIN A FIRM GRIP ON ROUTE 1, NO MATTER WHAT THE COST” In Saigon, Wolfgang Lehmann watched Danang’s growing refugee problem with concern. On 18 March he cabled Washington and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Bernard B. Fall [Fall, Bernard B.]

This entailed faster traveling, less roadside security and greater convoy discipline, but, under the circumstances, Barrou felt that the game was worth the gamble, the more so as Mobile Group ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1996-11-14 | Author:Philip Caputo [Caputo, Philip]

Chapter Eleven If I were fierce and bald and short of breath, I’d live with scarlet majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line to death. —Siegfried ...

epub |eng | | Author:James S. Hirsch [Hirsch, James S.]

9. The Hanoi March As the summer approached, the Hanoi media increased their attacks on the POWs. They had always been called "criminals," "air pirates," or "mercenaries," but now they ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Ted Morgan [Morgan, Ted]

I Feel the Situation Can Only Deteriorate Further The mid-March reverses made Castries short-tempered and depressed. In an uncharacteristic scene, the normally debonair cavalry colonel lashed out at a sergeant, ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Neil Smith [Smith, Neil]

An anti-Vietnam demonstrator offers a flower to military police at the Pentagon. Arlington, Virginia, October 1967 NARA The real successes of the anti-war movement occurred during Richard Nixon’s presidency. His ...

mobi |eng | 2000-07-12 | Author:Eisner, Will [Eisner, Will]

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Gary McKay

Figure 1. Extended lay-out of bunker system Figure 2. ‘X’-type bunker formation. An assault from any direction brought cross-fire from at least two other bunkers. Figure 3. Cross-section of typical ...

epub |eng | | Author:Asselin, Pierre

THE COUP AGAINST DIEM The climatic episode that would push Hanoi into a definitively militant strategy in the South came in the fall, when the political landscape there changed suddenly ...

epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Gary McKay

Chapter 6 LONG TAN: THE CROSS The Long Tan Memorial Cross was first erected on the site of the massive battle in the Long Tan rubber plantation not far from ...

epub |rus | 2009-10-31 | Author:Prouty, L. Fletcher & Stone, Oliver [Prouty, L. Fletcher]

This is straight out of Mao Tse-tung’s Little Red Book. In other words, all of a sudden the teaching of Mao, the Chinese Communist leader, had become part of the ...

mobi |eng | 2012-01-21 | Author:Robert Mason

Chapter 7 - The Rifle Range The verdict on the First Cavalry concept was in last week. Stepping out of an olive-drab tent at An Khe, after an hour-long briefing ...

mobi |es | 1967-12-31 | Author:Michael Herr

A veces, salías de la casamata, perdida ya la noción del tiempo, y te encontrabas con que fuera era de noche. Relumbraba el fondo de las colinas que rodeaban la ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Fredrik Logevall [Logevall, Fredrik]

VI AT DIEN BIEN PHU ON JANUARY 25, EVERYONE IN THE ENTRENCHED camp waited with nervous anxiety. And waited. By nightfall, no attack had come. A Dakota circled above the ...