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Few Americans know the facts about the final year of US combat operations in South Vietnam. As political will to sustain the fight shrank and the US withdrew most of their ground forces, the Soviets and North Vietnamese sought battlefield success to strengthen their negotiating position at the Paris peace talks. In March of 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South with five armored divisions, massive artillery support, and modern Soviet anti-aircraft weapons, intended to sweep any remaining US military aviation support to South Vietnam from the skies. But the Soviets and their North Vietnamese proteges had miscalculated.The remaining US aviation forces, along with the US Air Force and US Navy and Marine aviation assets, would not be easily removed from the battle. For the US forces still in-country, this is an untold story of heroism, dedication, and refusal to yield the battlefield despite being largely considered by US political leaders as "expendable."

Putschisten, Palmöl, People Powerzwischen Myanmar, den Philippinen, Vietnam und dem indonesischen Westpapua liegt eine der wirtschaftlich dynamischsten Regionen der Welt, die aber gesellschaftlich und politisch stark gespalten ist. Auf den einstigen Schauplätzen kolonialer Ausbeutung und kommunistischer Aufstandsbewegungen streiten heute alte und neue Eliten, Stadt und Land um politische Mitbestimmung, soziale Gerechtigkeit und den Erhalt der durch Klimawandel und Monokulturen bedrohten Natur. Daneben profitieren fragwürdige Populisten vom Aufstieg der sozialen Medien.

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A riveting account of one of the most deadly fires in naval history expressed in the stark terms of an after-accident report.On July 29, 1967, 134 sailors died when a fire aboard the USS Forrestal quickly spread throughout the ship. The cause was an electrical malfunction that created a series of explosions. The high ambient temperature made the fire even more dangerous, and the lack of effective firefighting measures made it all but impossible to stop. The board of investigation that followed determined that no disciplinary action was warranted against any personnel. This thoroughly researched report tells the story of those who perished in the fire and their loved ones, as well as hinting at the struggles of the investigators who tried to learn what went wrong.

THE REST OF THE STORY is an award winning history of the Red Markers, a small Air Force forward air controller (FAC) detachment, and the men they supported - the elite Vietnamese Airborne Division and its U.S. Army advisors (called Red Hats) of MACV Team 162. The Red Markers and Red Hats fought alongside the Airborne in battles throughout Vietnam and Cambodia for more than a decade. These personnel embedded with an allied armed force developed a unique camaraderie and perspective on the Vietnam War. More than 100 men contributed to this chronicle, including Red Marker FACs, crew chiefs, and radio operators, plus Red Hats, FACs from other detachments, Cobra gunship and Medevac crewmen, and artillerymen from field artillery units. This book is a tribute to them all.

As American withdrawal from South Vietnam began, attention turned to the enemy's use of base areas inside nominally neutral Cambodia. In response, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces launched a series of operations between April and June 1970-an effort to disrupt supply lines, seize sanctuary areas, and locate the elusive Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN). 19 Miles: Cambodia 1970 and Other Stories presents that campaign from the ground level. It is both a concise account of the operation and a firsthand narrative of an officer who took part in it. Set against the stated limits of the campaign and the conditions encountered in execution, the book examines the distance between what was intended and what was experienced. In Vietnam, John S. Tomko, Jr., served as an Infantry Platoon Leader from January to September 1970 with Company D 5th Battalion 12th Infantry 199th Infantry Brigade (Light) and as a Division staff officer with the 23rd Infantry Division (Americal) from September to November 1970. After twenty-nine years of service in the Active Army, the U.S. Army Reserve, and the Army National Guard, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. His military awards include the Combat Infantry Badge. He resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

In 1970, after growing up in the woods and fields of Southeast Minnesota, Francis Fitzgerald finds himself as a young Marine in the middle of one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts his country has ever fought. Thoughts of college and becoming a game warden are gone as daily life becomes a battle of survival. Hot jungle sun, monsoon rains, snakes and leeches, and the ever-present threat of enemy ambushes take a toll on a nineteen-year-old's mind and body. But the biggest battle looms ahead. How does one heal the body and soul after living in that unimaginable world? No one is ever the same. Is anything worth the fight anymore? In Combat to Conservation, Fitzgerald explains how wilderness became his closest ally, his medicine, and his only hope.

In 1970, after growing up in the woods and fields of Southeast Minnesota, Francis Fitzgerald finds himself as a young Marine in the middle of one of the longest and bloodiest conflicts his country has ever fought. Thoughts of college and becoming a game warden are gone as daily life becomes a battle of survival. Hot jungle sun, monsoon rains, snakes and leeches, and the ever-present threat of enemy ambushes take a toll on a nineteen-year-old's mind and body. But the biggest battle looms ahead. How does one heal the body and soul after living in that unimaginable world? No one is ever the same. Is anything worth the fight anymore? In Combat to Conservation, Fitzgerald explains how wilderness became his closest ally, his medicine, and his only hope.

NICK HUN gives his account of what it was like to serve in combat as an officer with the 5th Special Forces, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and as a pilot with the 190th Assault Helicopter Company, flying "guns" over the same ground he fought upon wearing a Green Beret. After two tours in Vietnam, he fulfilled the remainder of his thirty-year army career in the Military Police Corps, retiring as a colonel and being appointed Commissioner of Corrections for the State of West Virginia. BUDAPEST TO VIETNAM is his story!

As a magazine reporter early in the Vietnam War, Tony Plattner wrote a highly acclaimed fourteen-part series for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. It was noted for its accuracy and forecasts of a long-term involvement if the Johnson administration did not change its inept strategy. With his integrity at risk, he fought back tenaciously against the Defense Department's attempt to convict him first as a criminal under the Espionage Act and later to cashier him prematurely from the Marine Reserve. The resulting decade-long battle was met with ingenuity, grit, determination and support from many sources and resulted in ultimate resolution in his favor.

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Liberty VS TyrannyBy Col. Andrew P. O'Meara, Jr.Colonel Andy O'Meara is a combat veteran awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart in the Vietnam war. His latest and well researched book, Liberty VS Tyranny deals with the enduring struggle between our military leaders, sworn to defend our Constitution and the political leaders in charge. Col. O'Meara looks at the extraordinary role Yale University played in mobilizing opposition to the Vietnam war and the roles our academia has played in creating a genre of socialist elites buried within American society today. The failure of the DOJ and FBI to prosecute flagrant cases of treason and how they have now become weaponized by former President Obama is one of the most serious events to damage our justice system and the rule of law. This miscarriage of justice has convinced the leaders of the Left that they are above the law; a travesty which continues to this day. You will read examples of catastrophic failures caused by America's various governments over these past six decades since the Kennedy assassination and the damage they have done to our international role in keeping socialism and communism at bay in the free world. He documents the damage our political leaders have done with ever-changing domestic and erratic foreign policies. He asks the question, "Where do we go from here?" Do we keep on repeating these same mistakes created by an ever-changing direction of government, or do we create a sustained domestic and foreign policy that will hold communism and socialism at bay in the free world? Liberty Vs Tyranny, will leave you asking these questions while it also offers a possible solution!

Paper is a scout dog with the 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles". Gravely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, his leg has been badly shattered by a high caliber bullet. After being carried for 48 hours before receiving treatment, his wound is now badly infected. But Paper is a very special scout dog who has saved countless lives...Everyone has given up on Paper, except for his handler, Tom Hewitt. Then Tom finds Dr. John Kubisz of the 764th Medical Detachment. Doc Kubisz agrees to see if there's anything he can do. If Paper's leg cannot be saved, he will be euthanized. Even if it can be saved, unless he regains its full strength, he will still be euthanized...And if Paper recovers, he and Tom will be sent back to the front line...An estimated 3,800 dogs were deployed as scouts by the United States Army during the Vietnam War. "Paper Dog" is the amazing story of one of those dogs, and the incredible bond he develops with two very remarkable men; his handler and best friend Tom Hewitt, and Army veterinarian, Dr. John Kubisz. Together with his exceptional team of medical misfits at the 764th Medical Detachment known as the "Dirty Half Dozen," Dr. Kubisz goes to extraordinary lengths, not just to save Paper's life, but to rebuild his bullet-shattered leg - just so that he and Hewitt can return to the front line. "Paper Dog" is an emotional journey, of courage and devotion, human and canine, laced with more than a little caustic humor and disdain for the military hierarchy. John Kubisz clearly has much in common with Hawkeye Pierce of M*A*S*H - his veterinary skills matched only by his sense of humor and his ability to avoid disciplinary action from his superiors!

Then A Soldier is two stories and two histories that are intertwined. On one level, it is a realistic, understated, un-romanticized description of close combat in Vietnam, and a serious analysis of three firefights in which the author was engaged. On the second level, it portrays the social, historical, and cultural pressures that led a Jewish boy from the Bronx of the early 1960s to become a career Army officer, and, when his country was at war, to seek out a combat assignment. It is the story of a young man setting out to prove that Jews could be good soldiers as he simultaneously embarks on an uncommon assimilation strategy to enter the WASP establishment. Then A Soldier describes the growth of the author from a boy, to a student, to a ROTC cadet, to a peace-time soldier and finally as a junior officer in combat in Vietnam. It is the story of a young man testing himself and finding a new dimension of his makeup. ReviewA fine, honest account of close combat in Vietnam. This is a clearly-written, tough-minded memoir of the grunt's war, the brutal, exhausting and morally challenging long patrols and lightning-quick collisions with death at the muddy, bloody bottom of the chain of command, strategy and politics. Every veteran of the era, as well as today's soldiers and civilian readers, will find each moment spent with this book worthwhile. Ralph Peters, Retired U.S. Army officer, Fox News strategic analyst, Author of Endless War

If Operation Dewey Canyon, fought in the northern I Corps area of South Vietnam and Laos in early 1969, was defined in relation to World War II Marine Corps battles in the Pacific, it would include the isolation of Guadalcanal, the miserable terrain, weather and vegetation of Bougainville, an entrenched enemy similar to Peleliu, and the strategic importance of Iwo Jima.Most WWII Marine battles were fought by division-sized forces that often outnumbered the enemy. Dewey Canyon was fought by the 9th Marine Regiment, consisting of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions. These battalions were more often than not under-strength and undersupplied. Even when augmented by air power, and the artillery of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines, the Marines who fought in Dewey Canyon numbered only a fraction of the Marine forces that fought enemy units in previous wars.Yet, they prevailed.

American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlefields, these were brutal times for America's South Vietnamese allies, combined with a period of intense diplomatic negotiations conducted under the increasing reality that America had abandoned them.<BR><BR>In Peace and Prisoners of War, written in “real time,” Phan Nhat Nam provides a unique window into the harsh combat that followed America's withdrawal and the hopelessness of South Vietnam's attempt to stave off an eventual communist victory. Few others could have written this book. Phan saw the war for years as a combat soldier in one of South Vietnam's most respected airborne divisions, then as the country's most respected war reporter, and for fourteen years after the war as a prisoner in Hanoi's infamous “re-education” camps, including eight years in solitary confinement. In the war's aftermath anonymity became his fate both inside Vietnam and here in America. But now one of his important works is available, enhanced by an introduction by Senator James Webb, one of the most decorated Marines in the Vietnam War. Webb describes this revealing work as “an unvarnished observation frozen in time, devoid of spin or false retrospective wisdom.” Phan's reporting makes clear the sense of doom that foretold the tragic events to come, on the battlefields and in the frustration of negotiating with an implacable enemy while abandoned by its foremost ally.<BR><BR> Readers will find this book both enlightening and disturbing, its observations until now overlooked in most histories of the Vietnam War.

From Da Nang to Stonewall, Zippo Boys is a story of war and revolution. Dave Lara is a Mexican-American-Jew born in Castroville, California to a poor family of migrant workers. IN 1965, at the age of seventeen, he was emancipated and joined the United States Navy with the hope of avoiding duty in the Vietnam War. Eleven months later he found himself in the jungles of southeast Asia where he discovered he was someone of worth. He met others like himself, young men who faced prison if their truth were told. Dave fell in love only to have the love of his eighteen-year-old life die in his arms on the battlefield. Though he struggled with his homosexuality at first, Dave went on to become a part of the revolution that formed the modern-day gay rights movement.

Book Two, the second of a three-book series, continues from 1966 in Book One, to cover the action of Marine Corps Tankers and Ontos crewmen fighting the locally-grown Viet Cong, the better armed, trained, organized, and equipped Viet Cong Main Forces, and the North Vietnamese Army Regulars from 1967 thru 1968 in I Corps, South Vietnam. As in Book One, and to continue in Book Three, it features hundreds of personal stories, on-the-spot in real time, interviews of Marines just returning from their fight - all which is framed within the official unit command chronologies and after action reports, including documented "lessons learned". The maps, personal pictures, organizational charts, and the citing of each Marine who gave his life are, also linked to the Vietnam Wall and to the Foundation's web site, with volumes of additional information about the Marines who left their sweat and blood in Vietnam battling their communist enemy.