Vietnam War Diary February 1968: The TET Offensive - Softcover

Dennis, Mr Don J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491244283 ISBN 13: 9781491244289

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

February 1968. The TET Offensive.A chopper medevac that's a race to save a Vietnamese girl's life, exploding flags that shoot down helicopters, a "Bilko"-like sergeant who smuggles bar girls into an American field hospital for the pleasure of wounded marines, a one eyed Quartermaster who talks like a pirate, an Australian soldier who's accidentally awarded the Purple Heart and a paranoid staff officer who thinks he's Napoleon re-incarnated, make up just some of the characters and events in this true story.Paperback version also includes bonus "B-52 STRIKE"

About this title

From the Author:

All the incidents in these books actually happened - but not necessarily on the day described. I had one critic contact me and tell me it was all rubbish and exaggeration, as it had been taken from the "folk legends" that arise during wartime. He even told me I'd plagiarized incidents from another book published twenty years ago. The exploding VC flag incident was, he said, an example of such exaggeration as he had it on good authority it never happened. Apart from being there when it did happen and actually being involved in the incident, I was able to point him to a link with the on line Commander's Diaries where the incident is documented...Also the pilot's description of the incident has been published on his website: armypilot.net/vietnam/
 
What he seemed to forget was that "folk legends" often have their basis in fact, the "legend" of course growing with time. As for the book he accused me of stealing incidents from - well it turns out that it was a book I wrote in 1990, published here and in Europe. So if anyone is in doubt, contact me and I'll point you in the right direction.
 Don Dennis 28 September 2015 - the 50th Anniversary of 161 Recce Flight's Deployment to Vietnam.

About the Author:

Born in Sydney Australia, Don spent his youth surfing the east coast's beaches and also became a top ranked competitive swimmer. On leaving high school, he studied electronic engineering but on graduation opted for a career as a creative copywriter, a job at which he excelled. His main achievements included designing a baked bean campaign that persuaded the Army to buy the brand for their ration packs because of their nutritional value...a decision that came back to haunt him when a year later he was drafted and he was forced to eat the same wretched beans for the duration. His real passion was flying and he used money earned from freelance writing to purchase flying lessons, with the aim of becoming an airline pilot. Subsequently he was commissioned (as a dangerous lieutenant...) and served in Army Aviation during the Vietnam war. He achieved a certain notoriety for implementing a soap powder bombing raid on Vietcong fish farms that nearly developed into an international incident when a news reporter accused him of chemical warfare.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1491244283
• ISBN 13: 9781491244289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200