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The U.S. Army Infantryman Vietnam Pocket Manual (Hardcover)
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The U.S. Army Infantryman Vietnam Pocket Manual (Hardcover)
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List price R454
Loot Price R412
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Between 1964 and 1975, 2.6 million American personnel served within
the borders of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, of whom an
estimated 1-1.6 million actually fought in combat. At the tip of
the spear were the infantry, the "grunts" who entered an
extraordinary tropical combat zone completely alien to the world
they had left behind in the United States. In South Vietnam, and
occasionally spilling over into neighboring Laos and Cambodia, they
fought a relentless counterinsurgency and conventional war against
the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC). The terrain was
as challenging as the enemy - soaring mountains or jungle-choked
valleys; bleached, sandy coastal zones; major urban centers;
riverine districts. Their opponents fought them with relentless and
terrible ingenuity, on a daily basis with ambushes, booby traps,
and mines, then occasionally with full-force offensives on a scale
to rival the campaigns of World War II. This pocket manual draws
its content not only from essential U.S. military field manuals of
the Vietnam era, but also a vast collection of declassified primary
documents, including rare after-action reports, intelligence
analysis, first-hand accounts, and combat studies. Through these
documents the pocket manual provides a deep insight into what it
was like for infantry to live, survive, and fight in Vietnam,
whether conducting a major airmobile search-and-destroy operation
or conducting endless hot and humid small-unit patrols from jungle
firebases. The book includes infantry intelligence documents about
the NVA and VC threats, plus chapters explaining hard-won lessons
about using weaponry, surviving and moving through the jungle,
tactical maneuvers, and applications of the ubiquitous helicopter
for combat and support.
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