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Seabee 71 in Chu Lai - Memoir of a Navy Journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967 (Paperback)
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Seabee 71 in Chu Lai - Memoir of a Navy Journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967 (Paperback)
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Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval
Reserve to avoid the draft. By the summer of 1967 he found himself
with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian
life, he was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a
photojournalist, documenting the lives of the hard-working and
harder-drinking U.S. Navy SeaBees as they engineered the
infrastucture of war-roads, runways, heliports and base camps for
troops on the edges of the conflict. He was also shot at, almost
blown up by a road mine, spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets
bombarded a nearby Marine runway, and rode along on convoys through
Viet Cong territory to photograph villages outside "The Wire." The
stories and photographs Lyman published as editor of the
battalion's newspaper, The Transit, form the basis of his memoir.
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