Con Thien : the Hill of Angels /
A memoir/history of a much-beleaguered Marine outpost of the DMZ. Throughout much of 1967, a remote United States Marine firebase only two miles from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) captured the attention of the world's media. That artillery-scarred outpost was the linchpin of the so-called McNama...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Roots of conflict
- Before the Americans came
- The generals
- McNamara's wall
- The DMZ war unfolds
- Nguyen of the North versus PFC Jones
- Setting the stage
- The bloody month of May
- Battle for Con Thien
- DMZ invasion
- Summer in hell
- Buffalo
- Running the gauntlet
- General offensive, phase I
- The "Thundering Third"
- Into the valley of death
- The siege
- 3/9's turn in the barrel
- Monsoon misery
- Living in the "V" ring
- The "Magnificent Bastards"
- Kentucky
- Winter battles : 1967-68
- After Tet
- Parting shots.