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Swift Boats at War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
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Swift Boats at War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
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Developed specifically for the Vietnam War (and made famous by the
2004 presidential campaign), Swift Boats were versatile craft "big
enough to outrun anything they couldn't outfight" but too small to
handle even a moderate ocean chop, too loud to sneak up on anyone,
and too flimsy to withstand the mildest of rocket attacks. This
made more difficult an already tough mission: navigating coastal
waters for ships and sampans smuggling contraband to the Viet Cong,
disrupting enemy supply lines on the rivers and canals of the
Mekong Delta, and inserting SEALs behind enemy lines. The stories
in this book cover the Swift Boats' early years, which saw
search-and-inspect operations in Vietnam's coastal waters, and
their later years, when the Swift Boats' mission shifted to the
Mekong Delta's labyrinth of 3,000 miles of rivers, streams, and
canals. This is an intimate, exciting oral history of Swift Boats
at war in Vietnam.
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