Into No Man S Land The Journal Of Patrick Seamus Flaherty United States Marine Corps Khe Sanh Vietnam 1968

Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545505369

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Into No Man’s Land: The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968 by Ellen Emerson White Pdf

The Vietnam War journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging!Determined to do his duty for his country, Patrick Seamus Flaherty joins the Marines right after graduation to fight in the Vietnam War. But Southeast Asia is a far cry from Patrick's hometown of Boston, and as soon as he arrives, he realizes that he's made a terrible mistake.Confronted with oppressive heat, dense jungles, and an enemy that is everywhere, Patrick is overwhelmed by life on the battlefield. With the help of his comrades, Patrick slowly starts to find a way to deal with the harsh realities he faces. But under constant assault by the North Vietnamese, Patrick isn't sure he'll ever make it home again, and as the months drag on, he and his unit question whether they're actually making a difference. Writing in the journal his father gave him before shipping out, Patrick brings Khe Sanh to vivid life through the smells, tastes, sounds, horrors, loneliness, and the friendships that are so much of the chaos called war.

Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 0606262156

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Into No Man's Land by Ellen Emerson White Pdf

Patrick Seamus Flaherty joins the Marines to fight in the Vietnam War. Confronted with oppressive heat, dense jungles, and an enemy that is everywhere, Patrick is overwhelmed by life on the battlefield. With the help of his comrades, Patrick slowly s

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1451767773

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Into No Man's Land by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0835248518

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Children's Books in Print, 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fred L. Edwards
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574411386

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The Bridges of Vietnam by Fred L. Edwards Pdf

As an intelligence officer during the Vietnam War, Fred L. Edwards Jr., was instructed to "visit every major ground unit in the country. Go to Special Forces camps, ground reconnaissance units, armored cavalry units, and waterborne reconnaissance units. Search everywhere for intelligence sources--long range patrols, boats, electronic surveillance, and agent operations. Don't get bogged down by dog-and-pony shows staged for colonels and generals."

Author : Major Bruce H. Norton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399177712

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Force Recon Diary, 1969 by Major Bruce H. Norton Pdf

Elite and highly trained, the 3d Force Recon's eight-man teams were assigned to obtain vital information about NVA operations. Alone, the men of these small teams were sent behind enemy lines, where they all knew that a single mistake could cost everyone their lives. United States Navy Hospital Corpsman Bruce Norton was the only navy corpsman to act as a Marine Force Recon Team Leader. In Force Recon Diary, 1969 Doc Norton chronicles his life, mission by mission, with the 3d Force Recon in the DMZ and the A Shau Valley. He describes the tense patrols, the supreme courage, the sacrifices—in ambushes and hot landing zones—that made this courageous company one of only two Marine units during the entire Vietnam War to receive the United States Army's Valorous Unit Citation.

Author : Richard D. Camp
Publisher : Zenith Imprint
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0760334935

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Last Man Standing by Richard D. Camp Pdf

A harrowing account of one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, drawn from extensive personal interviews and never-before-published sources.

Author : Kenneth P. Sympson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469728265

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Images from the Otherland by Kenneth P. Sympson Pdf

For two decades Sympson thought little of his tour of duty as a Marine artillery officer in Vietnam. But recovering from non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer probably caused by exposure in Vietnam to Agent Orange, he saw a thread running through his later life and was flooded with memories of events he had never talked about. This book began as an exercise in self-therapy, an attempt to discharge the emotional burdens he had unknowingly carried for so many years. In August 1965 as a forward observer with the 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, the author saw his first combat in Operation Starlite, the first large-scale ground combat operation in Vietnam. In March 1966, as the artillery liaison officer for the renowned Magnificent Bastards of the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, he fought in Operation Texas, one of the bloodiest battles of the war. For two hours, Sympson directed over 2,500 rounds of artillery fire nearly on top of Echo Company to drive back the Viet Cong who had trapped the Marines at the edge of a heavily fortified village. From the frontlines in Vietnam, this is a story of fear and dread, anticipation and boredomfrom a man who served in country.

Author : MSG James T. Born, USA, Ret.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781491844496

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THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL by MSG James T. Born, USA, Ret. Pdf

The author is a Vietnam War veteran, having served in the Mekong Delta in 1967. His unit. Mobile Support Team TWO, Detachment Alpha, was a top secret United States Naval Special Warfare team, composed of specially trained personnel from Boat Support Unit One and from SEAL Team's ONE and TWO. In it's inseption,this team was code named "Project Zulu". While a lot of what this group of men did is still classified, their main purpose was to disrupt enemy ambushes of PBR river boats and snatch and grab high ranking enemy officials. This was accomplished by counterambushing the enemy deep within the forbidden reaches of the Mekong Delta and its waterways. The team often remained behind the enemy lines in enemy controlled territory for days disrupting their troop and supply movements. The main motivational factor of wrtiing this book was not to highlight what the author did but to provide the general public and historians a chance to read about the valor and sacrifices that were made by 163 officers and enlisted men, from various points in Vietnam and at varrying time frames. It is a snapshot of the real war, not created in mind by Hollywood or from mistruths often found in other books from those stealing the valor.The author himself is a recepient of The Bronze Star Medal with the Combat Distinguishing Device and feels qualified to speek about the trials and tribulations of those featured in the book. The author served eleven years in the Navy and twelve more years in the Army. He retired as a Master Sergeant E-8. He now lives in Henderson, Nevada with his wife of 40 years..

Author : Stewart M. Harris
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440149474

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Shore Duty by Stewart M. Harris Pdf

Three million men served in Vietnam and each has a story to tell. Shore Duty is the unique account from author Stewart M. Harris who served as senior advisor to Coastal Group 16 in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. It is the tale of a small outpost in eastern Quang Ngai Province. From a fort built of coconut logs and mud, four Americans and eighty to ninety Vietnamese operated eight wooden junks in an area surrounded by a local population numbering in the tens of thousands. There were no schools, no doctors, no police, and no customs or civic officials. There was no one except these few Americans and Vietnamese trying to accomplish all of the duties a government should. What makes this story different is that these men were sailors. During the course of the Vietnam War, the sailors who rotated through the four-man team at Coastal Group 16 were awarded many commendations, including the Navy Cross, at least one Silver Star, a half dozen Bronze Stars, and ten Purple Hearts, four of them posthumous. This was not a typical Navy tour.

Author : Marlin Groft,Larry Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698148253

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Bloody Ridge and Beyond by Marlin Groft,Larry Alexander Pdf

By a veteran of Lt. Col. Merritt A. Edson's battalion, and author of the Dick Winters biography Biggest Brother and coauthor of A Higher Call On the killing ground that was the island of Guadalcanal, a 2,000-yard-long ridge rose from the jungle canopy. Behind it lay the all-important air base of Henderson Field. And if Henderson Field fell, it would mean the almost certain death or capture of all 12,500 marines on the island . . . But the marines positioned on the ridge were no normal fighters. They were tough, hard-fighting men of the Edson’s Raiders; an elite fighting unit within an already elite U.S. Marine Corps. Handpicked for their toughness, and submitted to a rigorous training program to weed out those less fit, they were the Marine Corps’s best of the best. For two hellish nights in September 1942, about 840 United States Marines—commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Merritt Austin “Red Mike” Edson—fought one of the most pivotal battles of World War II in the Pacific, clinging desperately to their position on what would soon be known as Bloody Ridge. Wave after wave of attacking Japanese soldiers were repelled by the Raiders, who knew that defeat and retreat were simply not possible options. But in the end, the defenders had prevailed against the odds. Bloody Ridge and Beyond is the story of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion, which showed courage and valor in the face of overwhelming numbers, as told by Marlin Groft, a man who was a member of this incredible fighting force.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : MINN:30000009144688

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Conservation in Action by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen G. MacDonald
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466464445

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War Stories by Stephen G. MacDonald Pdf

War Stories: An Enlisted Marine In Vietnam is a memoir of my two years in the United States Marine Corps. It tells what it was like to enlist in the Marine Corps and serve as a field radio operator with an infantry battalion. We operated near the southern edge of the DMZ in Vietnam in 1967, a time and place of intense fighting. It took forty years of writing and rewriting to distill that two years into this book, because it took that long for me to become this honest about my experience. I'm glad I didn't rush it, because none of the earlier versions were as good as this one. This book is not so much about military tactics, as it is about what it feels like to be a Marine. It might be of particular interest to young people considering enlistment in the Marine Corps, to Marine officers, both commissioned and non-commissioned, and to family members of Marines, but it is really written for everyone. Most of us believe that the world is less than ideal, and that there are people and countries out there from whom we need to defend ourselves. Marines and the Marine Corps are an important part of that defense. When we ask citizens to become Marines, to defend us, we owe it to them to try to understand what we are asking. This book can help. A common reaction of many early readers has been, "I had no idea it was like that."

Author : Jack McLean
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345510150

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Loon by Jack McLean Pdf

Nothing could have prepared privileged-boy Jack McLean for the horror of Landing Zone Loon--a three-day battle that took place on a remote hill tucked into the border of North Vietnam and Laos in June 1968, killing twenty-seven men, wound nearly one hund

Author : Nathaniel Fick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618556133

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One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick Pdf

A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, and advances to the pinnacle--Recon--four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. Along the way, he learns to shoot a man a mile away, stays awake for seventy-two hours straight, endures interrogation and torture, learns to swim with Navy SEALs, and much more. His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between the military ideals he learned and military practice, which can mock those ideals.