Steel and Blood: South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast AsiaNaval Institute Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 240 When South Vietnam was abandoned by its American allies and consequently defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1975, all its military records were lost to the enemy. This has led to a paucity of factually based analyses of the war by South Vietnamese authors. In a project lasting some ten years, and financed by his own hard-earned resources, Colonel Viet has researched, documented, and analyzed the Vietnam War from the perspective of South Vietnamese armor forces, elements in which he himself played an important role as leader, teacher, and innovator. His travels to interview hundreds of people with first-hand knowledge of these matters took him back and forth across the United States (and to Canada, France and Australia) and enabled him to piece together the story as recalled by virtually every senior South Vietnamese who was involved, along with many of lesser rank but important experience, and many Americans as well. The result is a unique and invaluable work, one recounting from the early days of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam its organization and development, its combat operations, and its interaction with American advisors and then later with deployed American units. Viet tells this story as an historian would, not glossing over the shortcomings and failures of his fellow Vietnamese soldiers (or of the Americans), but also providing definitive accounts of their successes, their innovations, their courage and determination, and the hardships experienced and survived in the course of a long, difficult, and ultimately unsuccessful struggle. In Colonel Viet's words: "In order to give the truth back to history, we did not hide anything, whether it be victory or defeat." Finally, in a very touching portion of the work, Colonel Viet memorializes his fallen comrades of the armored force and commemorates the service of all the American advisors to the armored force he was able to identify. |
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... Regiment and the1st Armor Brigade, again inthenorthern provinces. Becauseof the Vietnamization program, which beganin1969, both units were equipped with weapons and otherequipment onpar with U.S. forces, with theexception ofartillery ...
... Regiment and the1st Armor Brigade, again inthenorthern provinces. Becauseof the Vietnamization program, which beganin1969, both units were equipped with weapons and otherequipment onpar with U.S. forces, with theexception ofartillery ...
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... armored forces providedby Brigadier GeneralTran Quang Khoi, former deputy commander of the 18th Infantry Division, commanderof Task Force 318, and finally commander of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade upto30 April 1975. Toan Thang 42 was ...
... armored forces providedby Brigadier GeneralTran Quang Khoi, former deputy commander of the 18th Infantry Division, commanderof Task Force 318, and finally commander of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade upto30 April 1975. Toan Thang 42 was ...
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... Brigade (reinforced by one U.S. mechanized infantry battalionand one U.S. armored battalion), the Vietnamese 3rd Airborne Brigade, andthe U.S.11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. In addition, 1st Squadron of theU.S. 9th Air Cavalry conducted ...
... Brigade (reinforced by one U.S. mechanized infantry battalionand one U.S. armored battalion), the Vietnamese 3rd Airborne Brigade, andthe U.S.11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. In addition, 1st Squadron of theU.S. 9th Air Cavalry conducted ...
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... armored vehicles to ford theriverat these locations. Organization of Forces IIICorps forces conducting Operation ... Brigade, commandedthe entireforce. •The combat elements ofIII Corps AssaultForce included Headquarters, 3rdCavalry Brigade ...
... armored vehicles to ford theriverat these locations. Organization of Forces IIICorps forces conducting Operation ... Brigade, commandedthe entireforce. •The combat elements ofIII Corps AssaultForce included Headquarters, 3rdCavalry Brigade ...
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... Brigade (theCorps Assault Force), advancing northward from Chlong.11 Accordingto the original plan, after Kratie was ... armored cavalry out to search andoccupy key positions surrounding the valley. About one week after gaining control ...
... Brigade (theCorps Assault Force), advancing northward from Chlong.11 Accordingto the original plan, after Kratie was ... armored cavalry out to search andoccupy key positions surrounding the valley. About one week after gaining control ...
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CombatHistory Chapter 1 FerociousBattles 196368 | |
The Capture of South Vietnam | |
Historical Background | |
Vietnam National Army | |
Vietnamese Armored Cavalry | |
Armor before 1975 | |
Maps Abbreviations | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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