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Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat - Memoir of a Combat Adviser in Vietnam, 1968-1969 (Paperback): Bob Worthington Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat - Memoir of a Combat Adviser in Vietnam, 1968-1969 (Paperback)
Bob Worthington
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Vietnam War was not going well in 1968. The January Tet Offensive-a tactical defeat but strategic victory for North Vietnam-showed the U.S. military and the American public that the enemy remained determined, no nearer defeat. Americans grew war weary while politicians and military leaders could not agree on how to win or how to withdraw. Between combat tours, the author served as a U.S. Army company commander-a job he came to despise. Experiencing what he perceived as a degradation in the Army's senior command, he resigned his commission. Yet he needed money to complete graduate school and volunteered to return to Vietnam as a combat advisor. This memoir describes his participation in the fiercest fighting of the war, on the Cambodian border, where he almost died of hookworm and was shot in a night operation. In Saigon to recuperate, he was tasked with creating an advisory team to train South Vietnamese commandos to conduct raids in the swamps south of Saigon, the Rung Sat Special Zone. For seven months they were successful, with Worthington receiving seven combat decorations.

Under Fire with ARVN Infantry - Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Vietnam, 1966-1967 (Paperback): Bob Worthington Under Fire with ARVN Infantry - Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Vietnam, 1966-1967 (Paperback)
Bob Worthington
R945 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R282 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From 1945 to 1973, 115,427 US military men were advisors in Vietnam. Of these, 66,399 were combat advisors. Eleven were awarded the Medal of Honor, 378 were killed and 1393 were wounded. Combat advisors, officers and NCOs, lived and fought with Vietnamese combat units, advising on tactics, weapons, and liaising with local US military support. This is the story of my first tour as a combat advisor 1966-1967. My training began at the Army Special Warfare School in unconventional warfare, Vietnamese culture and customs, advisor responsibilities, then Vietnamese language school. To get to Vietnam, I had to hitchhike across the Pacific, a colorful story. In-country I was senior advisor to a city infantry defense force and then an infantry mobile rapid reaction force. The author's respect for his Vietnamese comrades grew as combat operations against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army units and conducting operations with US Marines were part of what we did. A major battle is described where the 320-man Vietnamese battalion makes a night helicopter assault on a 1200-man NVA regiment. And, on a different night, the Viet Cong stopped the war for the author to obtain a US Marine helicopter to med-evac a wounded baby.

Untold Stories (Paperback): Mwsa Authors, Bob Worthington, M T Falgoust Untold Stories (Paperback)
Mwsa Authors, Bob Worthington, M T Falgoust
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