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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... from guerrilla warfare to conventional warfare and thattheybegan totest thecombat abilities of thenewly formed largeVCunits inSouth Vietnam. The prime example of thiswasthe Battleof Binh Gia. On2 August 1964North Vietnamese torpedo ...
... from guerrilla warfare to conventional warfare and thattheybegan totest thecombat abilities of thenewly formed largeVCunits inSouth Vietnam. The prime example of thiswasthe Battleof Binh Gia. On2 August 1964North Vietnamese torpedo ...
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South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia Ha Mai Viet. At the time ofthe battle, the 5th Troop/1st M113 APC Regiment,15 commanded by thisauthor (Captain Ha MaiViet), was conductingoperations inDong Xoai inthe3rd Tactical Zone ...
South Vietnamese Armor and the War for Southeast Asia Ha Mai Viet. At the time ofthe battle, the 5th Troop/1st M113 APC Regiment,15 commanded by thisauthor (Captain Ha MaiViet), was conductingoperations inDong Xoai inthe3rd Tactical Zone ...
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... This was the firsttime the enemy's502nd Battalion had encountered the 7th Mechanized Company in the Plain of Reeds. The battalion suffered heavy losses and wasforcedto fleeduring the first minutes of the battle. 24 In addition, from the ...
... This was the firsttime the enemy's502nd Battalion had encountered the 7th Mechanized Company in the Plain of Reeds. The battalion suffered heavy losses and wasforcedto fleeduring the first minutes of the battle. 24 In addition, from the ...
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... from DiAnto BaRia. This battalion then searchedfor and destroyed the enemyalong InterProvincial Route2, onthestretch of road from the province capital, Phuoc Le, to BinhGia Hamlet. The marines then linked upwith the rangers and ...
... from DiAnto BaRia. This battalion then searchedfor and destroyed the enemyalong InterProvincial Route2, onthestretch of road from the province capital, Phuoc Le, to BinhGia Hamlet. The marines then linked upwith the rangers and ...
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... the armored vehicles from the west and northwest.Having learnedlessons from the enemy's tactics atDuc Co,the task force commander was very cautious in his movements and hadalready drawn up aplan fora counterattack. Accordingto the pre ...
... the armored vehicles from the west and northwest.Having learnedlessons from the enemy's tactics atDuc Co,the task force commander was very cautious in his movements and hadalready drawn up aplan fora counterattack. Accordingto the pre ...
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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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