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A Shau Valor - American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963-1971 (Hardcover)
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A Shau Valor - American Combat Operations in the Valley of Death, 1963-1971 (Hardcover)
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Throughout the Vietnam War, one focal point persisted where the
Viet Cong guerrillas and ARVN were not a major factor, but where
the trained professionals of the North Vietnamese and United States
armies repeatedly fought head-to-head. A Shau Valor is a thoroughly
documented study of nine years of American combat operations
encompassing the crucial frontier valley and a 15-mile radius
around it-the most deadly killing ground of the entire Vietnam War.
Beginning in 1963 Special Forces A-teams established camps along
the valley floor, followed by a number of top-secret Project Delta
reconnaissance missions through 1967. Then, U.S. Army and Marine
Corps maneuver battalions engaged in a series of sometimes
controversial thrusts into the A Shau designed to disrupt NVA
infiltrations and to kill enemy soldiers, part of what came to be
known as Westmoreland's "war of attrition." The various campaigns
included Operation Pirous in 1967, 1968's Operations Delaware and
Somerset Plain, 1969's Operations Dewey Canyon, Massachusetts
Striker, and Apache Snow-which included the infamous battle for
Hamburger Hill-culminating with Operation Texas Star and the
vicious fight for and humiliating evacuation of Fire Support Base
Ripcord in the summer of 1970, the last major U.S. battle of the
war. By 1971 the fighting had once again shifted to the realm of
small Special Forces reconnaissance teams assigned to the
ultra-secret Studies and Observations Group-SOG. Other works have
focused on individual battles or units, but A Shau Valor is the
first to study the nine-year campaign-for all its courage,
sacrifice and valor-chronologically and within the context of other
historical, political, and cultural events. In addition to covering
the strictly military aspects of the various campaigns in the A
Shau, Tom Yarborough, author of the renowned Da Nang Diary, shows
how events in both Vietnam and the United States became inexorably
linked, as domestic dissent and a lack of realistic military
strategy ultimately led to America's first lost war.
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