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  • Graciously Welcoming Lady Luck Becoming

    Free. Color Illustrated. A poem of a war escape. ... Read more

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  • THE CHAMPA KINGDOM

    Glorious Cham Hindu kingdoms of Vietnam

    It’s about the almost forgotten Glorious Cham Hindu kingdoms of Champa buried in the past of today’s VietnamIt’s about the almost forgotten Glorious Cham Hindu kingdoms of Champa buried in the past of today’s Vietnam. ... Read more

    Free

  • Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972

    Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972

    Series Book 8 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This commemoration booklet focuses on naval air power during the final years of the Vietnam War. For much of this period, Navy aircraft sought to hamper the flow of supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos—a huge investment in air power resources that ultimately proved fruitless. After North Vietnam’s invasion of the South in 1972, however, Navy tactical aviation, as well as naval gunfire ... Read more

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  • Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    The Rolling Thunder Campaign

    Series Book 4 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved essential to the conduct of Rolling Thunder. Exploiting the inherent flexibility and mobility of ... Read more

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  • End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia

    The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia

    Series Book 9 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    President Nixon with his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, developed the Paris Agreement Treaty that offered the United States “peace and honor "by bringing home American prisoners of war and ending combat operations for the U.S. armed forces. During this time frame, political scandals were underway around Nixon’s Watergate affair that involved Nixon’s direction of illegal activities and his ... Read more

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  • Footprints of War

    Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam

    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    When American forces arrived in Vietnam, they found themselves embedded in historical village and frontier spaces already shaped by past conflicts. American bases and bombing targets followed spatial and political logics influenced by the footprints of previous wars in central Vietnam, and these militarized landscapes continue to shape postwar land-use politics.Footprints of War traces the long ... Read more

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  • Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

    Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

    Series Book 5 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    This historical volume introduces us to the Navy’s river force and American advisers to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. Navy and Marines securing the Rung Sat that was owned by Viet Cong early in the War offered our navy a river patrol craft that allowed for early naval intelligence attempts. Riverine warfare training because a mission for training sailors at home in addition to SEALS and ... Read more

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  • Yellow Raven

    The horrors of warfare through the eyes of an infantryman. From the human wave attacks in the Korean War, captivity in Laos, combat in Vietnam, to moving up the ranks and retiring as the highest enlisted rank in the army: Command Sergeant Major.This book covers Therriault's fascinating military career with brief chapters of his childhood and life after the military.Therriault was born Nov. 2, 1931 ... Read more

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  • Knowing the Enemy: Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia

    Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia

    Series Book 3 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    U.S. Navy Intelligence Contribution Key to SE Asia War Effort from 1965-75If you are intrigued by behind-the-scenes knowledge or secretive reconnaissance, this volume may interest you? It shares the story of intelligence gathering within Laos with patrol boats then supplemented by submarines, and high-altitude aircrafts also known as patrol plane missions. You will learn about the Navy’s Tactical ... Read more

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  • The Scar That Binds

    American Culture and the Vietnam War

    by Keith Beattie ...
    At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of "the wound that will not heal." References in various contexts to veterans' attempts to find a ... Read more

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  • The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945–1965

    Conflict in Asia, 1945–1965

    Series Book 1 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    America’s participation in the Vietnam conflict dates to the waning days of World War II, when certain victory over Japan prompted the Allies and Asian peoples of many ideological persuasions to change the political landscape. France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and other European countries planned to reestablish control over their colonies in China, India, and Southeast Asia. Anticolonial ... Read more

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  • Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War

    Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War

    Series series United States Navy and Vietnam War
    Merchant marines and the military sea transportation ships (MSTS) are featured early in this book to showcase how they have been developed compared to prior wars. Combined with Marines and U.S. Army troop forces on the ground through Viet Cong, an aerial combat campaign was also pursued from American ships. A key component featured within this resource is the organization of the Trans-Pacific ... Read more

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  • The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and Marine POWS in the Vietnam War

    Navy and Marine POWS in the Vietnam War

    Series Book 6 - The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
    The unconventional nature of the war and the unforgiving environment of Southeast Asia inflicted special hardships on the Vietnam-era POWs, whether they spent captivity in the jungles of the South, or the jails of the North. This book describes their experiences—the similarities and the differences—and how the POWs coped with untreated wounds and other malaises, systematic torture, and boredom. ... Read more

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  • The Ia Drang Campaign 1965: A Successful Operational Campaign Or Mere Tactical Failure?

    This monograph analyzes the effectiveness of operational campaign design during the initial US ground combat in the Vietnam War. The focus is on the linkage of national strategic ends with military means and ways from the Spring of 1965 through the results of the la Drang battles of November 1965. The monograph identifies lessons from this period that are applicable to current US Joint and Army ... Read more

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  • After Action Report, Ia Drang Valley Operation, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry 14-16 November 1965

    by Anon. ...
    “The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between regulars of the United States Army and regulars of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN / NVA) of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965, at two landing zones (LZs) northwest of Plei Me in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam (approximately 35 miles south-west of ... Read more

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  • Dear Mom & Dad, Tim's Letters from Vietnam

    Relive a unique piece of history and culture as told through my Uncle Tim's letters to home from Vietnam. Real life anecdotes, insights and observations of the times and the war from an officer stationed primarily at Camp Red Ball from May 1967 through November 1968. Not just any officer, Tim worked in personal effects and was responsible for sending the deceased soldiers personal items home.This ... Read more

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  • Operation Rolling Thunder: Strategic Implications Of Airpower Doctrine

    This SRP examines Operation ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968) bombing campaign in the context of military Principles of War and their applications. It analyzes accomplishment of strategic objectives and future implications for applications of airpower doctrine. It reviews the pre-Vietnam strategic situation, discussing its military, political, social, global, and doctrinal characteristics. It then ... Read more

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  • Baby Killers

    by Jim Morris ...
    War Story author Jim Morris ponders the hated nickname "Baby Killers" given to Vietnam War soldiers, and then explains the extraordinary lengths U.S. soldiers go to in order to avoid civilian casualties, often at the soldiers' own expense.Jim Morris served three tours with Special Forces (The Green Berets) in Vietnam. The second and third were cut short by serious wounds. He retired of wounds as a ... Read more

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  • 2-27-70

    A Short Story

    by John Podlaski ...
    I grew up in the city of Detroit and was taught that my heritage and strong family values were important. Every year, our birthdays were a cherished event within the family – especially when it was dad’s special day – we always celebrated his with great fanfare, a special family dinner and dessert.However, on February 27, 1970, my dad’s birthday, that annual tradition was broken when I was forced ... Read more

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  • General Vo Nguyen Giap: The Vietnamese Napoleon

    General Giap is undoubtedly one of the foremost practitioners of insurgency and revolutionary war. He has been called by some, the Vietnamese Napoleon. The issue is: What are the factors which have gained him such a reputation? What experiences have influenced his life and caused him to develop the strategy and tactics used the past 25 years in Vietnam? An extensive literature search was made to ... Read more

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  • Fathers and Daughters

    from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

    Series series A Vintage Short
    The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children.In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of ... Read more

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  • General Lewis Walt: Operational Art in Vietnam, 1965-1967

    This study investigates the significant effect of mobility, counter-mobility, survivability, and topographic engineering on the American Civil War Campaign of Chancellorsville. The operations occurred near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in April and May of 1863. In the battle, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia decisively defeated the Union Army of the Potomac. Engineer-related considerations ... Read more

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  • Civil-Military Relations From Vietnam To Operation Iraqi Freedom

    The end of the Cold War did not bring about the grand peace that was hoped for during four decades. Instead, the world has become more dangerous, with multiple complex problems. Military institutions worldwide must learn to adapt to the ever-changing face of the threat to fight the Global War on Terror. Services can no longer look within their own ranks to accomplish the mission; all operations ... Read more

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