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"On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Puckett, Ralph (Autor), Crosswell, D. K. R. (Daniel K. R.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2017]
Colección:American warriors (Lexington, Ky.)
Temas:
Puckett, Ralph.
Puckett, Ralph
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
United States. > Army. > Eighth Army Ranger Company > Biography.
United States. > Army. > Ranger Regiment, 75th > Biography.
United States. > Army
United States. > Army. > Eighth Army Ranger Company
United States. > Army. > Ranger Regiment, 75th
1950-1975
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Personal narratives, American.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives, American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Veterans.
Armed Forces > Officers
Autobiography
Biography
Personal Narrative
autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
Personal narratives > American
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Georgia boy: early influences
  • Want to be a flyboy: aviation cadet training with the U.S. Army Air Corps
  • A soldier's apprenticeship: West Point, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Fort Benning, Georgia
  • Korea: Eighth Army Ranger Company
  • Back on track: convalescence, marriage, and the Ranger Department
  • Latin sojourn: U.S. Army Caribbean Command and forming the Colombian Ranger School
  • Climbing the Army School Ladder: Infantry Advanced Course, USMAPS, and the Command and General Staff College
  • Tenth Special Forces Group : three-year idyll in Bavaria
  • Three more way stations cleared: Armed Forces Staff College, the Pentagon, and U.S. Army War College
  • Strike force: battalion command in Vietnam
  • Tet: the unexpected crossover
  • West Point: changing times at the Academy
  • The Fort Carson blues: troubled birth of the new Army
  • Life in mufti: Outward Bound, Discovery, and MicroBilt
  • Not all old soldiers fade away: Fort Benning redux
  • Afterword by General David H. Petraeus, USA (Ret.).

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