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This authentic firsthand account of Operation Blackjack-31 chronicles the first foray of 13 hand-picked Green Berets and a company of free Cambodian guerrillas into War Zone D - the VC's secret zone about which allied intelligence knew little or nothing - in January 1967. Their orders were to conduct guerrilla operations for an undetermined period, without artillery support or possibility of reinforcement. Detachment A-303 turned the suicide mission into a dramatic success.
With surgical precision and a novelist's grasp of dialogue, timing, and dramatic pacing, the author puts the reader on the ground with the force for 31 days without respite. A surprisingly fresh description of close-in combat, Donahue's account stands as a powerful testament to the few who mattered little in the big picture but who were all that mattered to each other. Blackjack-31 was a historic departure from the conventional military thinking that dominated the war in Vietnam, and it clearly demonstrated that American-led indigenous forces could conduct guerrilla operations against the enemy, and win.
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James C. Donahue joined the Marine Corps when he was seventeen years old and subsequently served with the Marines through the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Once discharged from the Corps, he enlisted in the Army and volunteered for Special Forces. As a Green Beret, he served with the 6th and 7th Special Forces Groups (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and with the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Vietnam. Donahue fought with Detachment A-343 at Duc-Phong and Mobile Guerrilla Force Detachments A-303, A-304, A-361, B-36 at Bien-Hoa, No-Ngoc-Tao, and Trang-Sup.
After earning a bachelor's degree in anthropology and a master's degree in social sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Donahue went to work for the U.S. Department of Labor's Veteran's Employment and Training Service, and currently serves as assistant director. His first book, No Greater Love, was awarded the Freedom Foundation's George Washington Honor Medal. He lives in Glenwood, New York.
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"Donahue has captured the sight, scent, and emotions of the ultimate unconventional soldier in this highly accurate account of the guerilla fighter in Vietnam." --David Christian, Past National Commander, Legion of Valor, Author of Victor Six
"Jim Donahue tells it like it was. Mobile Guerilla Force is an outstanding book. A must read for Vietnam vets." --Allen "Gunner" Kent, Past Commander in Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars
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- PublisherNaval Inst Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1557501726
- ISBN 13 9781557501721
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages205
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