Lasting Visions With The 7th Marines In Vietnam 1970

Author : Frederick Fenwick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359630950

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Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam 1970 by Frederick Fenwick Pdf

Merriam Press Vietnam War Series. A coming of age story of a farm boy who grew up in the heartland of Kentucky, who enlisted in the Marines in 1969 and experienced Marine boot camp at Parris Island where domineering drill instructors took away the youth in the author and instilled the discipline, training, and motivation necessary to survive in combat. Arriving in Vietnam in March 1970 he was assigned to 3rd Platoon, Mike Co., 3rd Bn., 7th Marines. His story tells of the bravery, camaraderie, and esprit de corps of this Marine infantry squad. Fred's true accounts take the reader into the jungles, rice paddies, villages, and mountains of Vietnam. Lasting Visions takes you to ground zero of the Vietnam War. 33 photos, map.

Author : Frederick Fenwick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359631100

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Lasting Visions: It Comes With The Rank by Frederick Fenwick Pdf

Merriam Press Military Memoir Series. Fred Fenwick joined the USMC at eighteen. Thirty years later he retired at the highest enlisted rank of Sergeant Major. He reported to Parris Island, SC, in 1969 for recruit training and retired in 1999. In 2010 he published his first non-fiction book titled "Lasting Visions: With the 7th Marines in Vietnam 1970." It captured his first year and a half in the Marine Corps. His first book takes you through combat in Vietnam and his subsequent tour in Okinawa and the Orient. "Lasting Visions: It Comes With the Rank" is his second non-fiction book. He has picked up where he left off in his first book and continued through a 30-year Marine Corps career. The author's unique style of storytelling will capture your attention and keep you in suspense. 49 photos.

Author : Frederick Fenwick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359627868

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Lasting Visions of Floy Bugg Fenwick: Mother of Five Marine Sons by Frederick Fenwick Pdf

Merriam Press Biography Series. The true story of a woman who made a difference here on earth. She touched the lives of many people during her 90 years of significant and memorable events. Growing up in the heartland of Kentucky, she married a farmer and lived her entire life working and providing for her family of nine. She did not receive financial compensation for all her hard work, but for her, doing good deeds for others was of prime importance to her happiness and personal gratification. This is a story about my mother, Floy Bugg Fenwick. Her immediate family always had a special bond with her. She raised five sons and four daughters. As fate would have it, all five sons would serve their country in the United States Marine Corps. Her children, grandchildren and future generations will always remember how she made a difference as a decent and upstanding pillar of the community. This tribute to my mother comes from the heart. I will always love her, more than I can adequately express in words. 90 photos.

Author : Frederick Fenwick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359631247

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Lasting Visions: The End of an Era by Frederick Fenwick Pdf

Merriam Press Military Biography Series. Donald Fenwick enlisted in the US Marine Corps at 18. His destiny was to serve his country as a Marine and to make the Marine Corps a career. He reported to Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California in Jan 1957 for recruit training and retired in Oct 1990. For 33 years he served our nation and retired as a Master Gunnery Sergeant. His illustrious military career embodies both the old breed and the new breed of the Marine Corps. Donald served in distant lands such as Vietnam and Okinawa with several cruises aboard ship in the Caribbean Sea and Mediterranean Sea. His story will capture your attention and give you an insight into the reality of what being a Marine is all about. His personal experiences while growing up on the farm in rural Kentucky and while progressing through the enlisted ranks, reveal the espirit de corps, camaraderie and the struggles he had to endure. 71 photos, 2 maps.

Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCLA:L0053812020

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Cosmas, G.A., Murray, T.P. Vietnamization and redeployment, 1970-1971 by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division Pdf

Author : T. S. Miller Marine
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503042022

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Our Vietnam War by T. S. Miller Marine Pdf

In January of 1970, Alpha Company was redesingated Alpha CUPP as part of the Combined Unit Pacification Program, which turned out to be anything but peaceful. During the next 6 months the company led the 1st Marine Division in frequency of fire fights. The communist Viet Cong and North Vietnam Army soldiers were more than willing to take on squads of a dozen or so Marines isolated in each of the nine villages where they were assigned the missions of training the local defenders, driving the enemy out of the villages, helping open schools and market places, and winning over the people to the side of the often corrupt South Vietnam government officials. Based upon his combat journal and myriad media articles about the operation, their former platoon leader T.S. Miller's rather objective reporting of significant events is in sharp contrast to the unedited, emotional tone of the stories shared by his Marines at several reunions, decades later. What was it like to be a teenaged American Marine assigned to a foreign village, where you neither spoke the language nor understood the culture, to face off against a determined, combat hardened amoral enemy who was dedicated to destroying you and any Vietnamese who was willing to stand by you and your buddies, the only people you could really trust? Add to that conundrum the readily available temptations of drugs, sex, and alcohol in the villes and you get a sense of the pressures they endured 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, month after month. How did they respond? Read on and find out!

Author : Dr. Graham A. Cosmas,Lt.-Col. Terrence P. Murray
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200791

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U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Vietnamization And Redeployment, 1970-1971 by Dr. Graham A. Cosmas,Lt.-Col. Terrence P. Murray Pdf

This publication represents the eighth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the gradual withdrawal in 1970-1971 of Marine combat forces from South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, as part of an overall American strategy of turning the ground war against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong over to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam. Although written from the perspective of III MAF and the ground war in I Corps, the volume treats the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese Armed Forces, the Seventh Fleet Special Landing Force, and Marines on the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, in Saigon. There are separate chapters on Marine air, artillery, and logistics. An attempt has been made to place the Marine role in relation to the overall effort.

Author : Jim Nicholson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426947827

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George-3-7th Marines by Jim Nicholson Pdf

In the four years of the Korean War, America lost almost 54,000 men, roughly the same number who lost their lives in Vietnam, yet this war has almost disappeared into American history as the "Forgotten War."George-3-7th Marines tells a story of the bloody marine infantry campaigns fought in the deadly mountain ranges of Korea; it is a story told by the men who fought there-and died anonymously-in an unknown and bloody war. The never-before-told tales of the battle-hardened marines of the G-3-7 were collected and recorded by one of their own. Described by those who experienced the action firsthand, these accounts blend the shocking details of savage, bloody, killing with gentle, almost heartbreaking prose seldom seen in a chronicle of war. Jim Nicholson paints a brutally accurate picture of America and the Valhalla culture that shaped the toughness of soldiers in the fifties. He examines the events and mistakes that led to a collision of the free world with the rapidly expanding communist military machine. He reminds us that history does, in fact, show clearly that the sacrifice of young American boys saved the South Koreans, who now live freely in their beautiful "Land of the Morning Calm."

Author : Charles Richard Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : UIUC:30112075629953

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam by Charles Richard Smith Pdf

This book was donated as a part of the David H. Hugel Collection, an archival collection of the Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore.

Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCBK:C061168196

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The defining year, 1968 by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division Pdf

Author : Dr. Jack Shulimson,Maj. Charles M. Johnson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200838

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U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965 by Dr. Jack Shulimson,Maj. Charles M. Johnson Pdf

This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.

Author : Maj. Gary L. Telfer,Lt.-Col. Lane Rogers,Dr. V. Keith Fleming Jr.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200845

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U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Fighting The North Vietnamese, 1967 by Maj. Gary L. Telfer,Lt.-Col. Lane Rogers,Dr. V. Keith Fleming Jr. Pdf

This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps. This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF’s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.

Author : Stanley I. Kutler
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UOM:49015002854868

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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War by Stanley I. Kutler Pdf

The volume is not limited to the American experience in Vietnam but adds to our knowledge of the leading Vietnamese participants and issues.

Author : Maj. George Ross Dunham,Col. David A. Quinlan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200807

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U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Bitter End, 1973-1975 by Maj. George Ross Dunham,Col. David A. Quinlan Pdf

This publication represents the ninth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the final chapter in the Corps’ involvement in South-East Asia, including chapters on Cambodia, the refugees, and the recovery of the container ship SS Mayaguez. Although largely written from the perspective of the III Marine Amphibious Force, this volume also describes the roles of the two joint commands operating in the region: the Defense Attaché Office, Saigon, and the United States Support Activities Group, Thailand. Thus, while the volume emphasizes the Marine Corps’ role in the events of the period, significant attention also is given to the overall contribution of these commands in executing U.S. policy in South-east Asia from 1973 to 1975. Additionally, a chapter is devoted to the Marine Corps’ role in assisting thousands of refugees who fled South Vietnam in the final weeks of that nation’s existence.

Author : Gregg Jones
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306821400

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Last Stand at Khe Sanh by Gregg Jones Pdf

In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege of Khe Sanh-the Vietnam War's epic confrontation-was under way. For seventy-seven days, the Marines and a contingent of US Army Special Forces endured artillery barrages, sniper fire, ground assaults, and ambushes. Air Force, Marine, and Navy pilots braved perilous flying conditions to deliver supplies, evacuate casualties, and stem the North Vietnamese Army's onslaught. As President Lyndon B. Johnson weighed the use of tactical nuclear weapons, Americans watched the shocking drama unfold on nightly newscasts. Through it all, the bloodied defenders of Khe Sanh held firm and prepared for an Alamo-like last stand. Now, Gregg Jones takes readers into the trenches and bunkers at Khe Sanh to tell the story of this extraordinary moment in American history. Last Stand at Khe Sanh captures the exceptional courage and brotherhood that sustained the American fighting men throughout the ordeal. It brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters-young high school dropouts and rootless rebels in search of John Wayne glory; grizzled Korean War veterans; daredevil pilots; gritty platoon leaders and company commanders; and courageous Navy surgeons who volunteered to serve in combat with the storied Marines. Drawing on in-depth interviews with siege survivors, thousands of pages of archival documents, and scores of oral history accounts, Gregg Jones delivers a poignant and heart-pounding narrative worthy of the heroic defense of Khe Sanh.