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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... Nguyen Van Nho of 1stPlatoon/7th Company and Warrant Officer Nguyen Van Hao ... Captain Scanlon, the adviser assigned tothe mechanized company, he didnot ... Captain Scanlon threw open the reardoors of the M113 command vehicle and ran ...
... Nguyen Van Nho of 1stPlatoon/7th Company and Warrant Officer Nguyen Van Hao ... Captain Scanlon, the adviser assigned tothe mechanized company, he didnot ... Captain Scanlon threw open the reardoors of the M113 command vehicle and ran ...
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... Captain Nguyen Huu TrungNgoc, was orderedby the province chief, Lieutenant Colonel LeDuc Dat, toconduct a reconnaissance and search operation through an area ofrubber trees about tenkilometers east ofBinh Gia. The APC troop hadno ...
... Captain Nguyen Huu TrungNgoc, was orderedby the province chief, Lieutenant Colonel LeDuc Dat, toconduct a reconnaissance and search operation through an area ofrubber trees about tenkilometers east ofBinh Gia. The APC troop hadno ...
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... Captain Nguyen Manh Lam,TankTroop 1/5 (M41s) commanded by Captain Tran Van Thoan,APC Troop 2/6 (M113 APCs) commandedby CaptainDu Ngoc Thanh, the 21st Ranger Group, one battery of 105mm howitzers, an engineer company, and a group of ...
... Captain Nguyen Manh Lam,TankTroop 1/5 (M41s) commanded by Captain Tran Van Thoan,APC Troop 2/6 (M113 APCs) commandedby CaptainDu Ngoc Thanh, the 21st Ranger Group, one battery of 105mm howitzers, an engineer company, and a group of ...
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... commander moved his forces very cautiously in order to avoid being takenby surprise. Progress of theBattle On19 ... Captain Du Ngoc Thanh, Tank Troop 3/5 (M41s) commanded by Captain Nguyen ManhLam, a battalion of the 42nd Regiment ...
... commander moved his forces very cautiously in order to avoid being takenby surprise. Progress of theBattle On19 ... Captain Du Ngoc Thanh, Tank Troop 3/5 (M41s) commanded by Captain Nguyen ManhLam, a battalion of the 42nd Regiment ...
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... Nguyen Viet Thanh, commander of IV Corps andthe 4th Tactical Zone, directed Colonel PhamVan Phu, commanding the ... Captain Son, would beassigned to the 12th Armored Squadron toserveas our mechanized infantry unit. The 12th Armored Task ...
... Nguyen Viet Thanh, commander of IV Corps andthe 4th Tactical Zone, directed Colonel PhamVan Phu, commanding the ... Captain Son, would beassigned to the 12th Armored Squadron toserveas our mechanized infantry unit. The 12th Armored Task ...
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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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