In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush.
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Eastertide Offensive Lessons for the Gulf War
The savage 1972 Eastertide Offensive in Vietnam provided an invaluable lesson for Marines in the Gulf War two decades later.
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Colonel Thomas Moe: American POW in North Vietnam
Brought down by a faulty fuze on his wingman’s bomb, Tom Moe survived more than five years as a POW in North Vietnam.
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Book Review: A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents (by James M. Perry): CWT
A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents, by James M. Perry, John Wiley and […]
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Book Review:In The Battle for History: Re-fighting World War II (John Keegan) : MH
In The Battle for History: Re-fighting WorldWar II by John Keegan, Vintage Books, New […]
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Book Review: The Korean War: No Victors, No Vanquished (by Stanley Sandler) : MH
The Korean War: No Victors, No Vanquished, by Stanley Sandler, University Press of Kentucky, […]
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Book Review: Cold War at Sea / High Seas Confrontations Between the United States and the Soviet Union
Cold War at Sea: High Seas Confrontations Between the United States and the Soviet […]
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Book Review: The Bicycle in Wartime (by Jim Fitzpatrick) : MH
The Bicycle in Wartime, by Jim Fitzpatrick, Batsford-Brassey, Inc., Dulles, Va., 1998,$26.95. Technology in […]
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Book Review: The United States Army in Vietnam / Combat Operations / Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967
The United States Army in Vietnam: Combat Operations—Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October […]
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Book Review: Cross Border Warriors
CROSS BORDER WARRIORS The thousands of Canadians who fought alongside U.S. soldiers in Vietnam […]