Angels In Vietnam

Author : Jan Hornung
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Vietnam
ISBN : 9780595240906

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Angels in Vietnam by Jan Hornung Pdf

Cry, laugh, and share women’s Vietnam war experiences in their own words in this collection of stories, poems, and pictures of the Women Who Served. Over 11,000 women from America, New Zealand, and Australia went to Vietnam as nurses, American Red Cross workers, physical therapists, entertainers, librarians, and more.Ride along in a helicopter on a Christmas Day mission of the heart with Army pilots and American Red Cross Donut Dollies, in Vietnam, 1969. Meet Gary’s angel, a physical therapist who a wounded soldier found over three decades later to tell her, “thank you.” Take a trip back to the war with a woman when she finds her true love, a soldier fighting in Nam. Experience the war through a nurse’s eyes. Learn where the veterans are today. Read about the Australians and New Zealanders who served in Vietnam. Find out why male Vietnam veterans think the women who nursed, comforted, entertained, or just talked with them were Angels in Vietnam.Forward by David Hackworth, author of About Face and Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts.Jan Hornung is the author of This Is The Truth As Far As I Know, I Could Be Wrong and KISS the Sky: Helicopter Tales. www.geocities.com/vietnamfront

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Zola Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939126122

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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Pdf

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is a young adult novel about seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the Army when unable to afford college and is sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Perry and his platoon—Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, and Brunner—come face-to-face with the Vietcong, the harsh realities of war, and some dark truths about themselves. A thoughtful young man with a gift for writing and love of basketball, Perry learns to navigate among fellow soldiers under tremendous stress and struggles with his own fear as he sees things he’ll never forget: the filling of body bags, the deaths of civilians and soldier friends, the effects of claymore mines, the fires of Napalm, and jungle diseases like Nam Rot. Available as an e-book for the first time on the 25th anniversary of its publication, Fallen Angels has been called one of the best Vietnam War books ever and one of the great coming-of-age Vietnam War stories. Filled with unforgettable characters, not least Peewee Gates of Chicago who copes with war by relying on wisecracks and dark humor, Fallen Angels “reaches deep into the minds of soldiers” and makes “readers feel they are there, deep in the heart of war.” Fallen Angels has won numerous awards and honors, including the Coretta Scott King Award, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Booklist Editors Choice, and a School Library Journal Best Book. Fallen Angels was #16 on the American Library Association’s list of the most frequently challenged books of 1990–2000 for its realistic depiction of war and those who fight in wars.

Author : Jim Stewart
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781629072227

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The Angel from Vietnam: A memoir of growing up, the Vietnam War, a daughter, and healing… by Jim Stewart Pdf

Author : John Wesley Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0972614303

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Angels in Vietnam by John Wesley Fisher Pdf

A novel of one man's journey before, during and after the Vietnam War experience. His life goals and aspirations are taken away from him when he is drafted into the U.S. Army. After the war, he searches to discover what had happened to him and how he must cope in the world.

Author : Michael D. Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1631102060

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A Battalion of Angels by Michael D. Burns Pdf

Author : Angel Pilato,Ltc Angel Pilato Pilato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 0983210810

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Angel's Truck Stop by Angel Pilato,Ltc Angel Pilato Pilato Pdf

How do you survive when everything you believed about the world is turned upside down? In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, testosterone-fueled fighter pilots take off from Udorn Air Base in Thailand on sorties over dangerous targets in North Vietnam. Some come back, many do not. Into this fog of war enters Captain Pilato, a starry-eyed idealist, assigned to manage the officers' club. The fighter pilots christen the officers' club "Angel's Truck Stop," which becomes the backdrop for the conflicts, challenges, and choices she encounters. It reveals a woman's struggle to fit into a man's world. As the realities of war erode her ideals, she realizes the future doesn't hold the certainties it once did. Angel's Truck Stop is hilarious and at times, heart- wrenching. This memoir keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end.

Author : RICHARD E. WARREN
Publisher : Richard E. Warren
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781722789800

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Battlefield Guardians by RICHARD E. WARREN Pdf

In 1968 Ernie Baker was a nurse, a draftee, a conscientious objector, and a medic assigned to a combat unit. His tour of duty in the army is similar to many young men who were drafted, trained, and sent to Vietnam—with one extraordinary exception: Ernie is visited by his Guardian Angels. In vivid and unprecedented detail the angels describe an array of heavenly worlds, the "many mansions." They even grant him a view of the next life, while they enlighten him on the deepest meanings and highest values of this life. And Ernie’s angels recruit him for a unique spiritual mission: To record, and someday publish, their revelations to him. He wrote it all down—the war, the angelic visits, everything that happened during one terrible and wondrous year.

Author : John Blehm, Sr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Combat
ISBN : 0595463568

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Angel of Death by John Blehm, Sr Pdf

For many soldiers, there is a war after the war. After experiencing the horrifying aspects of war, many soldiers are afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, termed by some as "cancer of the soul". In Angel of Death, John Blehm tells of his wartime experiences and the thirty-eight years he has been suffering from PTSD. The book is a combination of an original work, Death Angel, and an additional nine chapters written ten years after the first edition. These chapters chronicle Blehm's journey with PTSD and the way he found peace through his faith in God. Angel of Death is written with the help of his wife, Karen, and is for soldiers and their families who wonder if they will ever reconnect with society. It is written for those who are asked to lay down their weapons and return to civilian life but seem to have lost the necessary pieces for this transition. It is a message of hope for those who have lost it and cannot seem to come back, and it is the testimony of a tortured soul who has found peace within.

Author : Susan Kummernes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736046713

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Come Now the Angels by Susan Kummernes Pdf

Jesse McGowan kills to stay alive. When his country needed men, Jess joined the Marines to give America his best. As gunner, he knows the gun team is the heart of the battle, with lives saved or lost by their performance. He accepts this responsibility. Will Jesse be worthy as the team leader? Will his gun team prove worthy? Will he return home alive or arrive in a casket? Tweet works as a nurse to save American lives in her war-torn country. She believes in democracy. Now, with no one to protect her or her child, she must find a way to get to Saigon. Once there, she must secure a boat out of Vietnam before the North Vietnamese Communists invade. For helping Americans, Tweet and her young daughter will likely be placed in a re-education camp and face probable death. Will they make it out of Da Nang? Can she secure passage and keep her daughter alive? A story of love, death, and war, this novel is filled with emotion and turmoil. Buy this book and meet the gun team, their families, and loves that give these Marines the courage to fight for another day.

Author : Jim Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1647183820

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The Angel: from Home, to Vietnam, to Forgiveness by Jim Stewart Pdf

Author : Genevieve de Heaulme
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612513867

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The Angel of Dien Bien Phu by Genevieve de Heaulme Pdf

Geneviève de Galard was a flight nurse for the French Air Force who received the name of the "Angel of Dien Bien Phu" during the French war in Indochina. She volunteered for French Indochina and arrived there in May 1953, in the middle of the war between French forces and the Vietminh. Galard was stationed in Hanoi and flew on casualty evacuation flights from Pleiku. After January 1954 she was on the flights that evacuated casualties from the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Her first patients were mainly soldiers who suffered from diseases but after mid-March most of them were battle casualties. Sometimes Red Cross planes had to land in the midst of Vietminh artillery barrages. On March 27, 1954, when a Red Cross C-47 with Galard aboard tried to land at night on the short runway of Dien Bien Phu, the landing overshot and the plane's left engine was seriously damaged. The mechanics could not repair the plane in the field, so the plane was stranded. At daylight Vietminh artillery destroyed the C-47 and damaged the runway beyond repair. Galard went to a field hospital under command of doctor Paul Grauwin and volunteered her services as a nurse. Although the men of the medical staff were initially apprehensive —she was the only woman in the base —they eventually made accommodations for her. They also arranged a semblance of uniform; camouflage overalls, trousers, basketball shoes, and a t-shirt. Galard did her best in very unsanitary conditions, comforting those about to die and trying to keep up morale in the face of the mounting casualties. Many of the men later complimented her efforts. On the 29th of April 1954 Genevièvee de Galard was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Légion d ́Honneur and the Croix de Guerre. It was presented to her by the commander of Dien Bien Phu, General de Castries. The following day, during the celebration of the French Foreign Legion's annual "Camerone", de Galard was made an honorary "Legionnaire de 1ère classe" alongside Lieutenant Colonel Marcel Bigeard, the commander of the 6th Colonial Parachute Battalion. French troops at Dien Bien Phu finally capitulated on May 7. However, the Vietminh allowed Galard and the medical staff continue to care for their wounded. Galard still refused any kind of cooperation. When some of the Vietminh begun to hoard medical supplies for their own use, she hid some of them under her stretcher bed. On May 24, Gènevieve de Galard was evacuated to French-held Hanoi, partially against her will. The American press gave her the name “Angel of Dien Bien Phu.” She was given a tickertape parade up Broadway, a standing ovation in Congress. On 29 July 1954 President Eisenhower awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. She currently lives in Paris with her husband.

Author : Daryl Eigen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781796065633

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A Hellish Place of Angels by Daryl Eigen Pdf

In this War memoir, Eigen gives voice to his fellow veteran’s experiences of the Vietnam War that culminated in September of 1967 in the brutal battle (Siege) of Con Thien. This defining engagement marked the beginning of the TET offensive and battle of Khe Sanh. He fought with the famous Marine Infantry Battalions 3/26 and 2/9 of the Third Division. Through letters written home, blended with published, attributed media and real war experiences A Hellish Place of Angels provides an in-depth and riveting insight into war and documents a spiritual Journey that took a 13+ month tour of combat experience and more than a half century of living to begin to understand.

Author : James P. Coan
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817314149

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Con Thien by James P. Coan Pdf

Con Thien is a memoir/history of a much-beleaguered Marine outpost of the DMZ Throughout much of 1967, a remote United States Marine firebase only two miles from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) captured the attention of the world’s media. That artillery-scarred outpost was the linchpin of the so-called McNamara Line intended to deter incursions into South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army. As such, the fighting along this territory was particularly intense and bloody, and the body count rose daily. Con Thien combines James P. Coan’s personal experiences with information taken from archives, interviews with battle participants, and official documents to construct a powerful story of the daily life and combat on the red clay bulls-eye known as "The Hill of Angels." As a tank platoon leader in Alpha Company, 3d Tank Battalion, 3d Marine Division, Coan was stationed at Con Thien for eight months during his 1967-68 service in Vietnam and witnessed much of the carnage. Con Thien was heavily bombarded by enemy artillery with impunity because it was located in politically sensitive territory and the U.S. government would not permit direct armed response from Marine tanks. Coan, like many other soldiers, began to feel as though the government was as much the enemy as the NVA, yet he continued to fight for his country with all that he had. In his riveting memoir, Coan depicts the hardships of life in the DMZ and the ineffectiveness of much of the U.S. military effort in Vietnam.

Author : Thomas R. Randall
Publisher : Trafford on Demand Pub
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412089468

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Angels with Whirly Wings Dust Off by Thomas R. Randall Pdf

This book tells of men risking their lives on every helicopter flight to save the wounded from certain death.

Author : Harry Spiller,Southeast Missouri State University. Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Death notices
ISBN : 1890551066

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Vietnam by Harry Spiller,Southeast Missouri State University. Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage Pdf