Combat Veterans' Stories of the Vietnam War: Vietnam War - Softcover

Black, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1985086697 ISBN 13: 9781985086692

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

This volume of “Combat Veterans’ Stories of the Vinam War” contains 15 autobiographical stories. The first begins in late October 1967, and is told by a Marine rifleman that fought in battles at Mike’s Hill, Foxtrot Ridge, and numerous others. The final story, in this volume, is told by an Army cavalry officer that led a platoon of armored personnel carriers with such ability and daring that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, three Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. The other stories in Volume 3 include those told by a U.S. Army artillery officer, a Marine helicopter pilot, a naval officer on offshore fire support duty, and two men that served in the U.S. Navy’s Mobile Riverine Force. Photos used in this volume were supplied by the men interviewed. Volumes 1-4 of this series contain combat experiences told by 57 Vietnam War veterans. Volume 4 also contains information about the armed forces of nations allied with the U.S. that fought against North Vietnam. Volume 5 contains the U.S. government’s explanation for the war, a review of the war and U.S. armed forces in it, POW treatment, MIAs, the CIA and the drug trade, war crimes, PTSD, moral injury, and history lessons not learned. It also contains a brief photo overview of combat in South Vietnam, in 1968, a decisive year in the war.

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About the Author

Norman Philip Black served, as a U.S. Navy Journalist, in the western Pacific; reported for United Press International and edited copy for Associated Press, both in New York City; and reported, in New Jersey, for the Newark Evening and Sunday News. He later worked for major companies. His news reports, features, and commentaries have been published in many countries. His first book is Ice, Fire, and Blood, a military history novel that tells about a period in the Korean War when the Chinese intervened and smashed U.S.-U.N. armies and the situation’s rapid reversal. His other works are two volumes of autobiographical stories of Combat Veterans’ Stories of World War II; two volumes of Combat Veterans’ Stories of the Korean War.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1985086697
• ISBN 13: 9781985086692
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320