The Bridge at Dong Ha - 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 The Bridge at Dong Ha write by Estate of John G. Miller. This book was released on 1996-08-19. The Bridge at Dong Ha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972. Told by a fellow Marine, the account lays bare Ripley's innermost thoughts as he rigged 500 pounds of explosives by hand-walking the beams beneath the bridge, crimped detonators with his teeth, and raced the burning fuses back to shore, thus saving his comrades from certain death. First published in 1989, the book has broad appeal as a riveting tale of adventure. But John Miller has taken this daring act of heroism beyond the specifics of time and place to provide new insights into the nature of war and warriors, characteristics that have remained unchanged for centuries and will remain valid for generations to come. It has been on the Marine Corps Commandant's recommended reading list since 1990. Newly illustrated by Col. Charles Waterhouse, USMCR (Ret.).
An American Knight
An American Knight - 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 An American Knight write by Norman J. Fulkerson. This book was released on 2009. An American Knight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC was president of Southern Seminary, Southern Virginia College.
No Shining Armor
No Shining Armor - 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 No Shining Armor write by Otto J. Lehrack. This book was released on 1992. No Shining Armor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the Vietnam War, as seen by the American PFCs, sergeants and platoon leaders in the rivers and jungles and trenches. Into their stories, Lehrack has woven a narrative that explains the events they describe and places them into both a historical and a political context.
Fighting to Leave
Fighting to Leave - 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 Fighting to Leave write by Robert E. Stoffey. This book was released on 2008-09-05. Fighting to Leave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A chronicle of the last years of the Vietnam War that is at once a comprehensive overview and at the same time a vividly personal account from a field commander.
U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965
U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965 - 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 U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965 write by Dr. Jack Shulimson. This book was released on 2016-08-09. U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.
