Valor in Vietnam

Author: Allen B. Clark  

Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781480411197

Subject: K333.52 American backers of SouthVietnam war - era (1954 ~ 1975)

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Language: ENG

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Allen B. Clark graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1963. Two years later, he volunteered for service in Vietnam and was assigned to the Fifth Special Forces Group. He was wounded in an early-morning mortar attack on the Dak To Special Forces camp on June 17, 1967, which necessitated the amputation of both legs below his knees. He lives in Dallas, Texas, and is the author of Wounded Soldier, Healing Warrior (2007), the story of his journey of healing. 

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Cover

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Historical Overview: The War in Brief

Chapter 1: Early Special Forces “A” Teams in South Vietnam

Chapter 2: “How’s it Feel to be the Man that Started World War III?”

Chapter 3: Vietnamization to Americanization

Chapter 4: Garry Owen (LZs X-Ray and Albany)

Chapter 5: The Unlonesome End Story

Chapter 6: Take the High Risk, High Reward Route

Chapter 7: The Air War and Incredible Rescues

Chapter 8: Surrounded on Three Sides!

Chapter 9: “Mom, I’m Joining the Marines Again

Chapter 10: A Ranger’s Ranger

Chapter 11: The Real Horrors of War

Chapter 12: Mission of Mercy at Son Tay

Chapter 13: Winning Hearts and Minds

Chapter 14: The Reluctant Warrior

Chapter 15: Coming Home

Chapter 16: Ghosts in the A Shau Valley

Chapter 17: A Will to Survive

Chapter 18: Evacuation of Saigon, 1975

Chapter 19: Left Behind

Reflections

Author’s Afterword

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Copyright

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