Название: Rice Paddy Recon: A Marine Officer's Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968-1970
Автор: Andrew R. Finlayson
Издательство: McFarland
ISBN: 0786496231
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 135,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
A young U.S. Marine officer recounts his experiences of the Vietnam War over a nineteen month period. He graphically describes what it was like to perform three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice paddies and mountains of Quang Nam Province and special police operations for the CIA in Tay Ninh Province. Using Marine Corps official unit histories, CIA documents, and his weekly letters home, the author relies almost exclusively on primary sources in providing an accurate and honest account of combat at the small unit level.