Description
Book Synopsis In February 1968, the U.S. Army''s 82nd Airborne Division was understrength, with only enough paratroopers to deploy a single brigade. The 3rd Brigade was flown 9000 miles to reinforce American units fighting the North Vietnamese Army around Hue--received a Valorous Unit Award for their actions there.
James Dorn was on Brigade staff. He later led a rifle platoon with the 3rd in the rice paddies west of Saigon. In his second year with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Central Highlands. he again led a platoon until promoted to captain. His frank and detailed memoir recounts their diverse combat missions, inhumanity for civilians and the day-to-day life of Infantrymen in the field.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments viii
- In Memoriam
- An Infantryman's Lot
- Preface
- Part One.
- The 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division
- 1. From Emergency Alert to Arrival in Vietnam
- 2 The Brigade's Public Information Staff Officer
- 3. The Brigade's Post Exchange Officer
- 4. Transferred to the 1st Battalion, 508th PIR
- 5. 1st Platoon, D Company, 1st Battalion, 508th PIR
- 6. Pineapples and a Missing Battalion Commander
- 7. Mudflats, Ice Cream and a Man Drowned
- 8. Christmas, Bob Hope, a Medcap, and an Airstrike
- 9. Extending My Tour for Six More Months
- 10. Farewell 3rd Brigade, Hello 173rd Brigade
- Part Two.
- The 173rd Airborne Brigade
- 11. LZ Uplift, Reconnaissance Missions, and a Life Saved
- 12. "C" Company, 3rd Battalion, 503rd PIR
- 13. Patrolling Deep in the Central Highlands
- 14. To Climb a Mile High Mountain
- 15. Resupply, Mail, a Desert and Bouncing Bettys
- 16. Pacification, Stupid Questions and a Heavy Machine Gun
- 17. A Man Killed by a Claymore Mine and RF/PFs
- 18. Helping Rebuild the Village and a Feast
- 19. Regional Force, Local Force and a USO Visit
- 20. Waterboarding a Female Viet Cong Member
- 21. The Last Time I Lead My Men into Danger
- 22. A Captain on the Battalion's Operations Staff
- 23. Time to Go Home
- 24. Awards and Decorations
- Epilogue
- Index
