Mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail write by Richard L. Stevens. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking the reader in the mountains and forests that the Americans called “Indian country,” Stevens presents the Viet Nam War as an extension of the romantic myth of the American frontier. In seven operations on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the reader enters an exotic, exhilarating, terrifying world. Documented by military reports, Steven’s powerful and poetic prose and his complex examination of the Viet Nam War elevate his Trail journey into the realm of myth.
Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964–73
Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964–73 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964–73 write by Peter E. Davies. This book was released on 2020-09-17. Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964–73 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Trails War formed a major part of the so-called 'secret war' in South East Asia, yet for complex political reasons, including the involvement of the CIA, it received far less coverage than campaigns like Rolling Thunder and Linebacker. Nevertheless, the campaign had a profound effect on the outcome of the war and on its perception in the USA. In the north, the Barrel Roll campaign was often operated by daring pilots flying obsolete aircraft, as in the early years, US forces were still flying antiquated piston-engined T-28 and A-26A aircraft. The campaign gave rise to countless heroic deeds by pilots like the Raven forward air controllers, operating from primitive airstrips in close contact with fierce enemy forces. USAF rescue services carried out extremely hazardous missions to recover aircrew who would otherwise have been swiftly executed by Pathet Lao forces, and reconnaissance pilots routinely risked their lives in solo, low-level mission over hostile territory. Further south, the Steel Tiger campaign was less covert. Arc Light B-52 strikes were flown frequently, and the fearsome AC-130 was introduced to cut the trails. At the same time, many thousands of North Vietnamese troops and civilians repeatedly made the long, arduous journey along the trail in trucks or, more often, pushing French bicycles laden with ammunition and rice. Under constant threat of air attack and enduring heavy losses, they devised extremely ingenious means of survival. The campaign to cut the trails endured for the entire Vietnam War but nothing more than partial success could ever be achieved by the USA. This illustrated title explores the fascinating history of this campaign, analysing the forces involved and explaining why the USA could never truly conquer the Ho Chi Minh trail.
On the Ho Chi Minh Trail
On the Ho Chi Minh Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Ho Chi Minh Trail write by Sherry Buchanan. This book was released on 2021. On the Ho Chi Minh Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follow Sherry Buchanan on a journey by an author who has long had a passion for Vietnamese art and for the sketches produced under the duress of the Vietnam or American War (1965-1975). Though she was familiar with and had traveled in Vietnam, she had never attempted the Trail before. The epic military road through the spectacular Tru'ò'ng So'n Mountains was built by North Vietnam to bring about the unification of North and South Vietnam, promised in the 1954 Geneva Accords. The United States, allied with South Vietnam to defeat the communist North, deployed close to eight million tons of bombs against it. Buchanan encounters totemic locations from Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south, and records her interactions - both scheduled and spontaneous - with North the South Vietnamese, Laotians, and Americans, who were actors or participants in the Vietnam War. Buchanan reveals the stories of the women who defended the Trail against the sustained American bombing campaign - the most ferocious in modern warfare - and of the artists who drew them. She focuses on what life was really like for the women and men under fire, bringing a unique perspective to the history of the Vietnam War. She discovers an inspiring postwar legacy of personal healing, forgiveness, and atonement. She talks to the Vietnamese women veterans who encouraged a culture of forgiveness toward the foreign enemy and continued their fight for social justice; to American veterans who returned to Vietnam to take responsibility where their government had failed to do so; and to women in the former South Vietnam who brought reconciliation through art. Interspersed with these accounts are excerpts from memoirs and chronicles that reveal logistical details of the Ho Chi Minh Trail which were hidden until now.
Blind Bat
Blind Bat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blind Bat write by Frederick F. Nyc. This book was released on 2000. Blind Bat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. C-130 Night Forward Air Controller on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
War For The Ho Chi Minh Trail
War For The Ho Chi Minh Trail - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War For The Ho Chi Minh Trail write by Major Gregory T. Banner. This book was released on 2014-08-15. War For The Ho Chi Minh Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper studies the lines of communications (the Ho Chi Minh Trail) which went from North to South Vietnam, through Laos, during the Second Indochina War. The purpose of this paper is to study the proposal that the United States, during the Vietnam War, should have used ground forces in Laos to block these routes. In providing background information, this study examines the nature of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, political and strategic considerations, and US military actions which were applied against the trail network. Studying the military feasibility of an interdiction effort on the ground, this study finds that the US was physically capable of mounting an operation into Laos to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The finding of this study is, however, that such a move would not by itself have provided a winning solution to the war. Additionally, such an attack into Laos would have had serious adverse consequences for that country and US desires for the region. The conclusion of this study is that in this case (the Second Indochina War) a ground interdiction of enemy LOCs would not have been a productive course of action.
