The Boys of '67
Charlie Company's War in Vietnam
Oxford, UK ; Long Island City, NY : Osprey Pub., 2012.
Format: Ebook
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Description: 1 online resource (376 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Following on from the stunning success of the novel Matterhorn as well as Osprey's own Tonight We Die as Men, this book follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Vietnam draftees from basic training to the rice paddies of Vietnam. In the spring of 1966 the Vietnam War was intensifying, driven by the US military build up, under which the 9th Infantry Division was reactivated. Charlie Company was part of the 9th and representative of the melting pot of America. But, unlike the vast majority of other companies in the US Army, the men of Charlie Company were a close-knit family. They joined up together, trained together, and were deployed together. This is their story.From the joker who roller-skated into the Company First Sergeant's office wearing a dress, to the nerdy guy with two left feet who would rather be off somewhere inventing computers, and the everyman who just wanted to keep his head down and get through un-noticed and preferably unscathed. Written by leading Vietnam expert Dr Andrew Wiest, The Boys of '67 tells the unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam, recounting the fear of death and the horrors of battle through the recollections of the young men themselves.America doesn't know their names or their story, the story of the boys of Charlie, young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and received so little in return - lost faces and silent voices of a distant war.
Contents:
Meeting Charlie -- The need for Charlie -- Losing the best we had -- Who was Charlie? -- Training -- To Vietnam and into the Rung Sat -- Into battle -- The day everything changed -- The steady drumbeat of war -- Charlie transformed, Battlefield Coda, and the Freedom Bird -- Home from war -- The men of Charlie Company.
Subjects:
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 9th -- History.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 9th -- History.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.
ISBN:
9781780968940
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-363) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-363) and index.
Description based on print version record.