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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... battlefield initiativeat Ap Bac, andfourteen of thefifteen helicopters participating in the operation were hit by bullets fired fromhidden enemy positions along the banks of the canal.32 When helearned ofthe first helicopter shot down ...
... battlefield initiativeat Ap Bac, andfourteen of thefifteen helicopters participating in the operation were hit by bullets fired fromhidden enemy positions along the banks of the canal.32 When helearned ofthe first helicopter shot down ...
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... battlefield deploymentthat theoperational headquarters had leftunguarded. The next morning, however,the operational headquarters sentthe newly arrived 5th Troop/1st Armor Regiment to advancetoward thetargetwith the mission ofattacking ...
... battlefield deploymentthat theoperational headquarters had leftunguarded. The next morning, however,the operational headquarters sentthe newly arrived 5th Troop/1st Armor Regiment to advancetoward thetargetwith the mission ofattacking ...
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... battlefield. The VC evacuated approximately 50 wounded personnel and a number of bodies. 45 Consequences ofthe Battle In practical terms, the Battleof ApBac wasover at the endofthe first day. The following morning, 3 January 1963, U.S. ...
... battlefield. The VC evacuated approximately 50 wounded personnel and a number of bodies. 45 Consequences ofthe Battle In practical terms, the Battleof ApBac wasover at the endofthe first day. The following morning, 3 January 1963, U.S. ...
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... battlefield wherethe enemywas sitting waiting inambush forthem. As for armored forces, Tank Troop 1/5 losses included more than twenty cavalrymen and Regional Force soldiers killedor wounded. Amongthe dead were Major Nguyen ThanhLy ...
... battlefield wherethe enemywas sitting waiting inambush forthem. As for armored forces, Tank Troop 1/5 losses included more than twenty cavalrymen and Regional Force soldiers killedor wounded. Amongthe dead were Major Nguyen ThanhLy ...
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... battlefield. Summary On themorning of 24 October, while reconnoitering the battle area, a forward reconnaissance team found 120 enemy bodies left on the battlefieldand collected75 enemyweapons. This does not include the number of enemy ...
... battlefield. Summary On themorning of 24 October, while reconnoitering the battle area, a forward reconnaissance team found 120 enemy bodies left on the battlefieldand collected75 enemyweapons. This does not include the number of enemy ...
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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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