13 Cent Killers

Author : John Culbertson
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307414335

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13 Cent Killers by John Culbertson Pdf

“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.” In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a former 5th Marine sniper himself, presents the riveting true stories of young Americans who fought with bolt rifles and bounties on their heads during the fiercest combat of the war, from 1967 through the desperate Tet battle for Hue in early ’68. In spotter/shooter pairs, sniper teams accompanied battle-hardened Marine rifle companies like the 2/5 on patrols and combat missions. Whether fighting their way out of a Viet Cong “kill zone” or battling superior numbers of NVA crack troops, the sniper teams were at the cutting edge in the art of jungle warfare, showing the patience, stealth, combat marksmanship, and raw courage that made the unit the most decorated regimental sniper platoon in the Vietnam War. Harrowing and unforgettable, these accounts pay tribute to the heroes who made the greatest sacrifice of all–and leave no doubt that among 5th Marine snipers uncommon valor was truly a common virtue.

Author : John J. Culbertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 0739431579

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13 Cent Killers by John J. Culbertson Pdf

Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493022083

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The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told by Tom McCarthy Pdf

In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Chris Kyle (author of American Sniper), Joe LeBleu, Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen, and many others. It includes tales of legendary snipers from the Revolutionary War up through present-day Afghanistan and Iraq.

Author : Ed Kugler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307829917

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Dead Center by Ed Kugler Pdf

WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST. Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966. As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating. In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war.

Author : John Culbertson
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307559821

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A Sniper in the Arizona by John Culbertson Pdf

"Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ." In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da Nang. But John Culbertson and most of the rest of Hotel Company were the same lean, fighting Marines who had survived the carnage of Operation Tuscaloosa. Hotel's grunts walked over the enemy, not around him. In graphic terms, John Culbertson describes the daily, dangerous life of a soldier fighting in a country where the enemy was frequently indistinguishable from the allies, fought tenaciously, and thought nothing of using civilians as a shield. Though he was one of the top marksmen in 1st Marine Division Sniper School in Da Nang in March 1967--a class of just eighteen, chosen from the division's twenty thousand Marines--Culbertson knew that against the VC and the NVA, good training and experience could carry you just so far. But his company's mission was to find and engage the enemy, whatever the price. This riveting, bloody first-person account offers a stark testimony to the stuff U.S. Marines are made of.

Author : Col. Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833129

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Inside the Crosshairs by Col. Michael Lee Lanning Pdf

"The American sniper could be regarded as the greatest all-around rifleman the world has ever known. . . ." At the start of the war in Vietnam, the United States had no snipers; by the end of the war, Marine and army precision marksmen had killed more than 10,000 NVA and VC soldiers--the equivalent of an entire division--at the cost of under 20,000 bullets, proving that long-range shooters still had a place in the battlefield. Now noted military historian Michael Lee Lanning shows how U.S. snipers in Vietnam--combining modern technology in weapons, ammunition, and telescopes--used the experience and traditions of centuries of expert shooters to perfect their craft. To provide insight into the use of American snipers in Vietnam, Lanning interviewed men with combat trigger time, as well as their instructors, the founders of the Marine and U.S. Army sniper programs, and the generals to whom they reported. Backed by hard information and firsthand accounts, the author demonstrates how the skills these one-shot killers honed in the jungles of Vietnam provided an indelible legacy that helped save American lives in Grenada, the Gulf War, and Somalia and continues to this day with American troops in Bosnia.

Author : Charles Henderson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0425188647

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Silent Warrior by Charles Henderson Pdf

The sequel to Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills continues the story of U.S. Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock and his accomplishments as a veteran of the Vietnam War, detailing his most difficult and dangerous missions. Reprint.

Author : John J. Culbertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0804115656

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Operation Tuscaloosa by John J. Culbertson Pdf

In 1967, Operation Tuscaloosa sent 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, into the hostile Song Thu Bon valley. Their mission--to exterminate the Viet Cong. But a sandbar island in the river quickly became an island of death for the Marines. As point man for the lead squad of Hotel Company, 2/5, John Culbertson tells the full bloody story of the battle.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114629657

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Soldier of Fortune by Anonim Pdf

Author : Janet Malcolm
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307797872

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The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm Pdf

A seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm delves into the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject. Featuring the real-life lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. In Malcolm's view, neither journalist nor subject can avoid the moral impasse that is built into the journalistic situation. When the text first appeared, as a two-part article in The New Yorker, its thesis seemed so radical and its irony so pitiless that journalists across the country reacted as if stung. Her book is a work of journalism as well as an essay on journalism: it at once exemplifies and dissects its subject. In her interviews with the leading and subsidiary characters in the MacDonald-McGinniss case -- the principals, their lawyers, the members of the jury, and the various persons who testified as expert witnesses at the trial -- Malcolm is always aware of herself as a player in a game that, as she points out, she cannot lose. The journalist-subject encounter has always troubled journalists, but never before has it been looked at so unflinchingly and so ruefully. Hovering over the narrative -- and always on the edge of the reader's consciousness -- is the MacDonald murder case itself, which imparts to the book an atmosphere of anxiety and uncanniness. The Journalist and the Murderer derives from and reflects many of the dominant intellectual concerns of our time, and it will have a particular appeal for those who cherish the odd, the off-center, and the unsolved.

Author : Marion F. Sturkey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89060703931

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Bonnie-Sue by Marion F. Sturkey Pdf

U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crews found little glory waiting for them in faraway Vietnam. Instead they became locked in a savage struggle with tenacious Sino-Soviet pawns in a desperate battle for survival.The author combines fascinating detail with grim realism. He uses hundreds of records from Marine Corps archives to build the outline for this riveting chronology. Onto this framework he weaves personal accounts from helicopter crews.Step through this unique looking-glass into the crucible of combat in Vietnam. Experience the love and brotherhood shared by helicopter crews and Marine infantrymen. Their survival became their victory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043178

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Micheal Clodfelter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056673604

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Warfare and Armed Conflicts by Micheal Clodfelter Pdf

In the twentieth century alone, military deaths totaled over 35 million, including 29,700,000 slain in international wars and almost 6 million killed in civil wars. This completely updated and revised edition of the acclaimed 1992 two-volume work (belongs in the reference collection of almost every library - ARBA) presents a record of casualties of modern warfare in the last four centuries. New information pushes back the beginning date to 1500 from the first edition's 1680 and pushes 1992 out through 1999. Arranged roughly by century and then subdivided by world region, the entries proceed chronologically and vary from paragraph to chapter-length. Each entry provides the name and date of the conflict, precursor events, strategies and details, the outcome and its impact. A history of weaponry is easily traceable, as casualties mounted according to their improvement.

Author : Jon Roper
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073948716

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The United States and the Legacy of the Vietnam War by Jon Roper Pdf

The Vietnam War ended over thirty years ago. Yet, it continues as a cultural reference point, shaping contemporary American society and culture, its impact felt in many different contexts. Vietnam precipitated a crisis in national self-confidence and a breakdown in political consensus out of which new ideological perspectives, including neo-conservatism, emerged. This book offers fresh perspectives on a defining event in "the American Century", examining its historical and political significance as well as its continuing cultural relevance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Naval history
ISBN : WISC:89082516642

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Naval History by Anonim Pdf