Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier's Memoir

ISBN-13: 9780786467259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 253 str.

Micheal Clodfelter

Opis

This book is an attempt to describe the intensity of the mad minutes (in the bush language of grunts, describes the general discharge of all weapons along a defense perimeter at a pre-designated time to discourage a potential enemy attack) and the agonizing search for the release that those moments of blind violence provided. For those who, like myself, started the search with the light of glory in our eyes and ended it dimmed by a dark jungle and our darker deeds, mad minutes became part of a mad experience in a mad war that carried us beyond glory into a territory from which none of us really returned.

Spis treści

Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 Maps Vietnam Odyssey: 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (29 July 1965–31 December 1966) 3 Tuy Hoa Area 5 Movement of 2/502nd Infantry (1 January–30 June 1967) 7 Prologue 9 Part I. Redleg 1. The General Leroy Eltinge 16 2. Cam Ranh Bay 21 3. An Khe 26 4. Operation Gibraltar 30 5. Quinhon 37 6. Phan Rang 45 7. Tuy Hoa 55 8. Phan Thiet and Nhon Co 67 9. Toumorong 72 10. Return to Tuy Hoa 82 Part II. Grunt 11. First Mission 90 12. Vung Ro Bay 107 13. Operation Seward 111 14. Firefight 118 15. Night March 142 16. Snipers 152 17. An Old Man’s Ears 163 18. Raiders 180 19. Hard Core Test 196 20. Operation Geronimo 206 21. Kontum 222 22. Punji Stake 233 23. New Year’s Truce 243 Epilogue 249 Military History of Micheal Clodfelter 263 Index 265