epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Marlantes, Karl [Marlantes, Karl]

7 LOYALTY Warriors have always had to deal with loyalty. Concepts of loyalty change, however, and warriors have to cope with that as well. Through much of history loyalty pretty ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ira A. Hunt Jr.

Seven line items made up about 85 percent of the tonnage of ground munitions.152 Table 18 shows the authorized supply rate for 1 November 1973 and the weapon densities for ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Douglas Valentine

CHAPTER 17 Accelerated Pacification The election of Richard Nixon in November 1968 signaled a shift in U.S. policy in Vietnam. Reflecting the desire of most Americans, in the wake of ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:Nigel Cawthorne

US Marines at Khe Sanh prepare defences during the siege, 1968. The base was hit by over 1,000 rounds of incoming fire some days. Any movement above ground attracted the ...

epub |eng | 2009-08-23 | Author:Karen Spears Zacharias

DADDY’S LAST INSTRUCTION to me was to stop crying because it upset Mama. I tried as best I could to do as Daddy had asked. But what he didn’t know ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Warren, James A. [Warren, James A.]

PHASE TWO Giap renewed the attack at 1700 on March 30, when the 312th and the 316th jumped off from their trenches to seize five key hills within strongpoints Dominique ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Keith Nolan [Nolan, Keith]

Chapter Ten I Am Sorry, Sir, But My Men Refused To Go 23 August 1969. Lieutenant Colonel Bacon had four companies of Task Force 3–21 in position for the final ...

epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Tim O'Brien [O'Brien, Tim]

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. April went on without lilacs. Without rain. When ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-11-27 | Author:Keith William Nolan [Nolan, Keith William]

At 1413 on 1 May 1968, Col. Louis Gelling, the 196th LIB commander, ordered Lieutenant Colonel Snyder to execute the 3-21st Infantry’s contingency plan to deploy to the DMZ. Other ...

epub |eng | 1997-03-27 | Author:H. R. McMaster [McMaster, H. R.]

General Westmoreland did not share Taylor’s reluctance to introduce American ground combat units. Like Harold Johnson, Westmoreland believed that ground forces should deploy to South Vietnam before the initiation of ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:Charles Henderson [Henderson, Charles]

Operation Rio Blanco lasted three more days, ending at 6:00 P.M. on November 27, 1966. The United States Marines, the Republic of Korea Marines, and the Army of the Republic ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Karl Marlantes

Mellas turned and went out of the tent. He carefully adjusted his stateside utility cover and headed back to the airstrip. He had no doubt about what the sergeant major ...

mobi |eng | 2011-08-10 | Author:Keith Nolan

Chapter Ten I Am Sorry, Sir, But My Men Refused To Go 23 August 1969. Lieutenant Colonel Bacon had four companies of Task Force 3–21 in position for the final ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jack Broughton

7. Fifteen Sams for Geeno As we took the belated and hesitant step of pressing the attack against North Vietnam's symbolic experiment in industrialization, the Thai Nguyen steel complex, my ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Otto J. Lehrack

CHAPTER 8 THE TAKING OF AN CUONG 2 An Cuong 2 was heavily wooded and fortified. Among its twenty-five to thirty huts were bunkers, trenchlines, and pillboxes. Most were covered ...