Description
Book Synopsis During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City. In that time, Bravo Troop saw 10 percent of its average field strength killed while inflicting much heavier losses on the enemy. This memoir vividly recounts those six months of intense armored cavalry combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting his fire direction techniques and the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1–Getting There
- 2–Welcome Aboard
- 3–Ap Bien Hoa
- 4–Little Rubber
- 5–First Boi Loi
- 6–Second Boi Loi
- 7–Long Trench
- 8–Cau Khoi Rubber
- 9–The Citadel
- 10–Country Store
- 11–Helmet Fight
- 12–War Correspondents
- 13–Sergeant Major Turner
- 14–Hoi Chan Fight
- 15–Baby Dumpling
- 16–CRIP
- 17–Defending Tay Ninh
- 18–Checking Out
- Glossary
- The Author's Service Record
- Index
