Lost Battalion Of Tet

Author : Charles A Krohn
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612512075

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Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support. The tragic military foul-up resulted in over 60 percent casualties for the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when the soldiers were surrounded by the enemy and began running out of ammunition. The bold decision by battalion commander Lt. Col. Richard Sweet to break out with his remaining soldiers under cover of darkness saved this encirclement from being a total disaster. Author Charles Krohn, the unit s intelligence officer at the time, provides a much-needed analysis of what took place and fills his account with details that have been confirmed as factual by other survivors. Krohn examines the battalion s involvement in two other major attacks for lessons learned when vital systems break down lessons, he says, that are timeless and applicable anywhere. This book is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.

Author : Charles A Krohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1682479374

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Lost Battalion of TET by Charles A Krohn Pdf

Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support. The tragic military foul-up resulted in over 60 percent casualties for the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when the soldiers were surrounded by the enemy and began running out of ammunition. The bold decision by battalion commander Lt. Col. Richard Sweet to break out with his remaining soldiers under cover of darkness saved this encirclement from being a total disaster. Author Charles Krohn, the unit s intelligence officer at the time, provides a much-needed analysis of what took place and fills his account with details that have been confirmed as factual by other survivors. Krohn examines the battalion s involvement in two other major attacks for lessons learned when vital systems break down lessons, he says, that are timeless and applicable anywhere. This book is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.

Author : Thomas Marvin Johnson,Fletcher Pratt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803276133

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The Lost Battalion by Thomas Marvin Johnson,Fletcher Pratt Pdf

Originaly publishied: 1st edition Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1938.

Author : John W. Nell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 189361915X

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The Lost Battalion by John W. Nell Pdf

The autobiography of John W. Nell a private in World War I's Lost Battalion

Author : Robert Laplander
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365673368

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Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of America's Famous WW1 Epic - Hardcover by Robert Laplander Pdf

Since its release in 2006, 'Finding the Lost Battalion' by Robert J. Laplander has become the benchmark work against which all things Lost Battalion related have been measured. Now, in this updated 3rd edition released to coincide with the centennial of America's entry into WW1, Mr. Laplander again takes us to the Charlevaux Ravine to delve deeper into the story than ever before! Meticulously chronicling what would become arguably the most famous event of America's part in the war, we find the truths behind the legend. Spanning twenty years of research and hundreds of sources (most never before seen), the reader is led through the Argonne Forest during September and October, 1918 virtually hour by hour. The result is the single most factual accounting of the Lost Battalion story and their leader, Charles W. Whittlesey, to date. Told in an entertaining, fast moving style, the book has become a favorite the world over! With new Forward by Major-General William Terpeluk, US Army (Ret).

Author : Charles Krohn
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275945329

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The Lost Battalion by Charles Krohn Pdf

In 1968 in South Vietnam, a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to charge a fortified North Vietnamese Army force 200 yards away over an open field with no artillery or air support. The defenders had every advantage. The Americans started moving across the field just before noon, every man a target. By the time they reached the tree line at the other side of the open field, nearly one half of the 400-man battalion was a casualty. Nine long, agonizing hours afterwards, U.S. artillery units began support fire, although the units remained desperately short of ammunition. The entrapped men saw their fate: death or captivity. Help from headquarters was neither offered or available. The following night the battalion commander decided to make a run for it. It was a gamble with high stakes. But the battalion did make it through enemy lines to a mountaintop where the NVA could not follow. When the Lost Battalion finally escaped encirclement, after nine hours with no artillery or air support, and 30 hours of fighting against an enemy that outnumbered them three to one, the tragic episode disappeared from official memory and relevant U.S. Army records--as if nothing had happened. Krohn tells the whole story--and it tells it with the words of those present. That some of the testimony comes from those responsible is remarkable.

Author : Robert J Laplander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716503337

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The Lost Battalion by Robert J Laplander Pdf

Much has been written about the famous 'Lost Battalion' of WW1, but few personal stories by the men who were there have ever been widely distributed. Now, Lost Battalion and 77th Division historian and author Robert J. Laplander changes all that in 'The Lost Battalion: As They Saw It'. Drawing on his 25+ years' worth of research into the event, the world's leading authority on the subject presents 31 stories by those who were there, told in their own words. From high ranking officers on down to the lowliest private, it's all here described in their own way; what they saw, what they heard, how they felt - and what it did to some of them afterwards. Often moving and occasionally terrifying, these stories paint a broad mosaic of their experiences, colored by their own backgrounds and personalities. For those seeking to understand the Lost Battalion event in a more direct way, as the men themselves understood it, this volume with be a welcome addition to their library. However, for all it is a wonderful and interesting peek into one of the most famous events of World War One!

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030270889

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A History of Modern Urban Operations by Gregory Fremont-Barnes Pdf

This book investigates the complexities of modern urban operations—a particularly difficult and costly method of fighting, and one that is on the rise. Contributors examine the lessons that emerge from a range of historical case studies, from nineteenth-century precedents to the Battle of Shanghai; Stalingrad, German town clearance, Mandalay, and Berlin during World War II; and from the Battle of Algiers to the Battle for Fallujah in 2004. Each case study illuminates the features that differentiate urban operations from fighting in open areas, and the factors that contribute to success and failure. The volume concludes with reflections on the key challenges of urban warfare in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Author : Erik B. Villard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Staying th Course October 1967 to September 1968 by Erik B. Villard Pdf

Author : Gregory Orfalea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0684891093

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Messengers of the Lost Battalion by Gregory Orfalea Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UIUC:30112005671349

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Army by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Laplander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0974414336

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Finding the Lost Battalion by Robert Laplander Pdf

Author : Gregory Orfalea
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439143681

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Messengers of the Lost Battalion by Gregory Orfalea Pdf

The author of Before the Flames and the son of a member of the ill-fated infantry battalion discusses America's 551st Battalion and their heroic, little-known role during World War II's Battle of the Bulge.

Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595930

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The Generals by Thomas E. Ricks Pdf

A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell. While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.

Author : James H Willbanks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472844637

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The Battle of Hue 1968 by James H Willbanks Pdf

In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam, mounting simultaneous assaults on 36 of 44 provincial capitals, and five of the six autonomous cities (including the capital city of Saigon). The longest and bloodiest battle occurred in Hue, the most venerated place in Vietnam. The bitter fighting that raged there for more than three weeks drew the attention of the world. Hue was the ancient capital of Vietnam, and as such, had been previously avoided by both sides; it had not seen any serious fighting prior to 1968. All that changed on the night of January 31 that year when four North Vietnamese battalions and supporting Viet Cong units simultaneously attacked and occupied both parts of the city straddling the Perfume River. The Communist forces dug in and prepared to defend their hold on the city. US Marines and South Vietnamese soldiers were ordered to clear the city, supported by US Army artillery and troops. A brutal urban battle ensued as combat raged from house to house and door to door. It was a bloody fight and resulted in large-scale destruction of Hue. Eventually, the Marines and the South Vietnamese forces retook Hue, but it turned out to be one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Tet Offensive, and led to a sea change in US policy in Vietnam.