Beneath the Bamboo: A Vietnam War Story

Beneath the Bamboo: A Vietnam War Story
Title Beneath the Bamboo: A Vietnam War Story PDF eBook
Author Stan Taylor
Publisher Jonathon Jones
Pages 169
Release 2020-12-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Excerpt: “I watched two point men take a 50-caliber machine gun bullet to the head, and watched the third being grabbed and taken behind enemy lines. Two of the enemy soldiers, which we often referred to as gooks, quickly came after me. As I quickly mowed them down with my automatic rifle, I crawled backwards away from the enemy gunfire, using my helmet to push sand in front of me as I went, which made it possible to look behind me. But as I looked back, I realized that my safety net was no longer safe. I saw my entire company falling like dominoes. Medics were running left and right, risking their lives to help others with bravery that even the most amazing soldier couldn’t hope to match. Some of the events I witnessed during that moment were beyond comprehension. I watched a young, courageous black medic take an 81-millimeter round to his head, and his whole body instantly turned to smoke. Young nineteen and twenty year old kids were crying like children, but fighting like someone had raped their sisters. So many things were going through my head at that moment, and in one single heartbeat I was overwhelmed with a flashback of my entire life. This is my story, from point A to B, of my life and times in the midst of hell on Earth.” Keywords: vietnam , vietnam war , war novel , war , war book , biography , autobiography




Beneath the Bamboo: a Vietnam War Story

Beneath the Bamboo: a Vietnam War Story
Title Beneath the Bamboo: a Vietnam War Story PDF eBook
Author Jonathon Jones
Publisher
Pages 180
Release 2014-11-25
Genre
ISBN 9781505215465

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Excerpt: "I watched two point men take a 50-caliber machine gun bullet to the head, and watched the third being grabbed and taken behind enemy lines. Two of the enemy soldiers, which we often referred to as gooks, quickly came after me. As I quickly mowed them down with my automatic rifle, I crawled backwards away from the enemy gunfire, using my helmet to push sand in front of me as I went, which made it possible to look behind me. But as I looked back, I realized that my safety net was no longer safe. I saw my entire company falling like dominoes. Medics were running left and right, risking their lives to help others with bravery that even the most amazing soldier couldn't hope to match. Some of the events I witnessed during that moment were beyond comprehension. I watched a young, courageous black medic take an 81-millimeter round to his head, and his whole body instantly turned to smoke. Young nineteen and twenty year old kids were crying like children, but fighting like someone had raped their sisters. So many things were going through my head at that moment, and in one single heartbeat I was overwhelmed with a flashback of my entire life. This is my story, from point A to B, of my life and times in the midst of hell on Earth."




Beneath the Bamboo

Beneath the Bamboo
Title Beneath the Bamboo PDF eBook
Author Jonathon Jones
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 126
Release 2013-08-19
Genre History
ISBN 9781492204404

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Excerpt:"I watched two point men take a 50-caliber machine gun bullet to the head, and watched the third being grabbed and taken behind enemy lines. Two of the enemy soldiers, which we often referred to as gooks, quickly came after me. As I quickly mowed them down with my automatic rifle, I crawled backwards away from the enemy gunfire, using my helmet to push sand in front of me as I went, which made it possible to look behind me. But as I looked back, I realized that my safety net was no longer safe. I saw my entire company falling like dominoes. Medics were running left and right, risking their lives to help others with bravery that even the most amazing soldier couldn't hope to match.Some of the events I witnessed during that moment were beyond comprehension. I watched a young, courageous black medic take an 81-millimeter round to his head, and his whole body instantly turned to smoke. Young nineteen and twenty year old kids were crying like children, but fighting like someone had raped their sisters. So many things were going through my head at that moment, and in one single heartbeat I was overwhelmed with a flashback of my entire life. This is my story, from point A to B, of my life and times in the midst of hell on Earth."




The Bamboo Cage

The Bamboo Cage
Title The Bamboo Cage PDF eBook
Author Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher Garrett County Press
Pages 482
Release 2013-01-31
Genre History
ISBN 193943002X

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After the Vietnam War ground to a bloody halt, long after the boys were officially sent home, evidence remained that over 2,000 American soldiers were still missing in Southeast Asia. In this shocking expose, journalist Nigel Cawthorne examines the evidence -- from CIA documents and Pentagon files to the streets of Hanoi.




The Bamboo Cage

The Bamboo Cage
Title The Bamboo Cage PDF eBook
Author Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher
Pages 346
Release 2016-08-24
Genre
ISBN 9781537130187

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The first published investigation into whether US prisoners of war were left behind in Southeast Asia after the Vietnam war.




The Fields of Bamboo

The Fields of Bamboo
Title The Fields of Bamboo PDF eBook
Author S. L. A Marshall
Publisher Dell
Pages 260
Release 1992-02
Genre History
ISBN 9780440212096

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Acclaimed historian Marshall captures the sweaty, blood-soaked action, individual acts of bravery, command breakdowns, and true minute-to-minute horror of close combat in a war that demanded more raw blind courage than any war Americans had ever fought. One of the few available accounts of the early battles of the Vietnam War.




Tiger Force

Tiger Force
Title Tiger Force PDF eBook
Author Michael Sallah
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 308
Release 2006-05-15
Genre History
ISBN 0759515735

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At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force." The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so that bombing runs could be accurately targeted. They were to go where no troops had gone, to become one with the jungle, to leave themselves behind and get deep inside the enemy's mind. The experiment went terribly wrong. What happened during the seven months Tiger Force descended into the abyss is the stuff of nightmares. Their crimes were uncountable, their madness beyond imagination-so much so that for almost four decades, the story of Tiger Force was covered up under orders that stretched all the way to the White House. Records were scrubbed, documents were destroyed, men were told to say nothing.But one person didn't follow orders. The product of years of investigative reporting, interviews around the world, and the discovery of an astonishing array of classified information, Tiger Force is a masterpiece of journalism. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for their Tiger Force reporting, Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss have uncovered the last great secret of the Vietnam War.