United States Marine Reconnaissance In The Vietnam War

Author : Leo J. Daugherty III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476650135

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United States Marine Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War by Leo J. Daugherty III Pdf

Tracing the history of U.S. Marine Force and Battalion Reconnaissance from its formation in 1898 through its operations during the Vietnam War (1963-1971), this book provides insight into Force Recon's selection, training and deployment. Emphasis on actions with the South Vietnamese ARVN highlights important lessons for today's Special Forces community, illustrating the inter-service cooperation of Recon operations. Firsthand accounts of Marines who served are included, along with photographs, maps and appendices.

Author : Richard Fleming
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476671871

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Chasing Charlie by Richard Fleming Pdf

Richard Fleming served as a scout with the elite U.S. Marine 1st Force Reconnaissance Company during the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War. Dropped deep into enemy territory, Recon relied on stealth and surprise to complete their mission--providing intelligence on enemy positions and conducting raids, prisoner snatches, and ambushes. Fleming's absorbing memoir recounts his transformation from idealistic recruit to cynical veteran as the war claimed the lives of his friends and the missions became ever more dangerous.

Author : Major Bruce H. Norton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Bruce Norton
Publisher : Quadrant Books®
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937868055

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Stingray by Bruce Norton Pdf

One of the most influential strategies of the Vietnam War, the Stingray Patrol comprised seven to ten marines in small teams, inserted by chopper deep in enemy territory. Surrounded on all sides by North Vietnamese Army troops and Viet Cong guerillas, these small, high-effective teams brought death and destruction to the enemy without ever going head-to-head in a gunfight with them. Like todays Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, and Marine Force Recon units that operate behind enemy lines, these Stingray Patrols helped target the enemy for artillery and air strikes . . . with devastating accuracy and effect. Force Recon Marine and team leader Bruce "Doc" Norton participated in many Stingray missions and he takes the reader behind enemy lines, telling the full story of Stingrays origins and operations. STINGRAY is the definitive history of these units and missions, available now for the first time in eBook format.

Author : Michael Lee Lanning,Ray W. Stubbe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811765695

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Inside Force Recon by Michael Lee Lanning,Ray W. Stubbe Pdf

Behind-enemy-lines stories of elite Marines in Vietnam Force Recon companies were the eyes and ears of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. Classified as special operations capable, Force Recon Marines ventured into the enemy’s backyard to conduct reconnaissance and launched deliberate strikes against the enemy. Lanning and Stubbe blend analysis and you-are-there stories of Force Recon in action to create the definitive account of Recon Marines.

Author : Lawrence C. Vetter, Jr.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307784216

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Never Without Heroes by Lawrence C. Vetter, Jr. Pdf

FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR, THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES, SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . . In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the enemy's intentions, and, when possible, bring deadly fire down on his head. Heavily armed, well-camouflaged teams of six and eight men daily exposed themselves to overwhelming enemy forces so that other Marines would have the information necessary to fight the war. It's all here: grueling, tense, and deadly recon patrols; insertions directly into NVA basecamps; last-stand defenses in the wreckage of downed helicopters; pursuit by superior North Vietnamese forces; agonizing deaths of men who valiantly put their lives on the line. NEVER WITHOUT HEROES is the first book to recount the story of a Marine reconnaissance battalion in Vietnam from the day of its arrival to its withdrawal. In Vietnam, Larry Vetter served as a platoon leader in Third Recon Battalion. He supplements his own recollections with Marine Corps records, exhaustive interviews with veterans, and correspondence to capture the bravery, and self-sacrifice of war.

Author : Andrew R. Finlayson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105056000

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Marine Advisors with the Vietnamese Provincial Reconnaissance Units, 1966-1970 by Andrew R. Finlayson Pdf

While most Marines think of the Vietnamese Marine Corps as the primary advisory experience during that conflict, Marines served with other programs. One of these is the subject of this study: Marine advisors with the Vietnamese Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs). This narrative is a combination of experience, research, and reflection.While other journalistic or academic accounts have been published, this is a narrative of participants. Many historians consider the two most effective counterinsurgency organizations employed during the VietnamWar to have been the PRU and USMC Combined Action Platoons (CAP). The author believes that both of these programs have applicability in any counterinsurgency where U.S. forces are called upon to assist a host government. (Originally published by the History Division, USMC)

Author : Dr. Jack Shulimson,Maj. Charles M. Johnson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Andrew R. Finlayson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786477012

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Killer Kane by Andrew R. Finlayson Pdf

The leader of one of the most successful U. S. Marine long range reconnaissance teams during the Vietnam War, Andrew Finlayson recounts his team's experiences in the year leading up to the Tet Offensive of 1968. Using primary sources, such as Marine Corps unit histories and his own weekly letters home, he presents a highly personal account of the dangerous missions conducted by this team of young Marines as they searched for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong units in such dangerous locales as Elephant Valley, the Enchanted Forest, Charlie Ridge, Happy Valley and the Que Son Mountains. In numerous close contacts with the enemy, the team (code-name Killer Kane) fights for its survival against desperate odds, narrowly escaping death time and again. The book gives vivid descriptions of the life of recon Marines when they are not on patrol, the beauty of the landscape they traverse, and several of the author's Vietnamese friends. It also explains in detail the preparations for, and the conduct of, a successful long range reconnaissance patrol.

Author : Lawrence C. Vetter, Jr.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307784216

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Never Without Heroes by Lawrence C. Vetter, Jr. Pdf

FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR, THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES, SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . . In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the enemy's intentions, and, when possible, bring deadly fire down on his head. Heavily armed, well-camouflaged teams of six and eight men daily exposed themselves to overwhelming enemy forces so that other Marines would have the information necessary to fight the war. It's all here: grueling, tense, and deadly recon patrols; insertions directly into NVA basecamps; last-stand defenses in the wreckage of downed helicopters; pursuit by superior North Vietnamese forces; agonizing deaths of men who valiantly put their lives on the line. NEVER WITHOUT HEROES is the first book to recount the story of a Marine reconnaissance battalion in Vietnam from the day of its arrival to its withdrawal. In Vietnam, Larry Vetter served as a platoon leader in Third Recon Battalion. He supplements his own recollections with Marine Corps records, exhaustive interviews with veterans, and correspondence to capture the bravery, and self-sacrifice of war.

Author : John Edmund Delezen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786483334

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Eye of the Tiger by John Edmund Delezen Pdf

"We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood." John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967. He volunteered for the Third Force Recon Company, whose job it was to locate and infiltrate enemy lines undetected and map their locations and learn details of their status. The duty was often painful both physically and mentally. He was stricken with malaria in November of 1967, wounded by a grenade in February of 1968 and hit by a bullet later that summer. He remained in Vietnam until December, 1968. Delezen writes of Vietnam as a man humbled by a mysterious country and horrified by acts of brutality. The land was his enemy as much as the Vietnamese soldiers. He vividly describes the three-canopy jungle with birds and monkeys overhead that could be heard but not seen, venomous snakes hiding in trees and relentless bugs that fed on men. He recalls stumbling onto a pit of rotting Vietnamese bodies left behind by American forces, and days when fierce hunger made a bag of plasma seem like an enticing meal. He writes of his fallen comrades and the images of war that still pervade his dreams. This book contains many photographs of American Marines and Vietnam as well as three maps.

Author : Michael J Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1962677257

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Swift, Silent and Deadly by Michael J Schneider Pdf

Swift, Silent, and Deadly: Recon Marines tells the story of Recon Marine heroes in Vietnam. Many of the men covered in the book are no longer with us. Some were casualties of the war. Others just haven't survived the years that have passed since the end of the war. There are still plenty around to tell their story, however, and some of those are included in this book. This book contains stories of U.S. Marines who performed reconnaissance duties in Vietnam during the war there. The duty was hazardous in that the operated in small units, usually a seven-man team, in areas held by enemy forces: Viet-Cong and/or North Vietnam Regular Army. In so far as possible, I've included background of the men during their youth. I hope that today's youth will consider them heroes to emulate.

Author : Alex Lee
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 1557505136

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Force Recon Command by Alex Lee Pdf

Author Alex Lee commanded the Third Force Reconnaissance Company in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970. Made up of small units of specially trained U.S. Marines, that company conducted long-range patrols deep in Northern I Corps - including the infamous Ashau Valley - to gather intelligence about the North Vietnamese Army. An intelligent, effective operator who led by example, Lee was also brash and excruciatingly honest, and in this controversial, no-holds-barred account, he takes the wraps off this select group of courageous and intrepid Marines.

Author : United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCBK:C008657237

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Shulimson, J. The landing and the build-up, 1965 by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division Pdf

Author : Graham A. Cosmas,Terrence P. Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433050651409

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U.S. Marines in Vietnam by Graham A. Cosmas,Terrence P. Murray Pdf