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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... gun and two lightmachine guns. The mechanized company sufferedonlytwo casualties. Warrant Officer Ninhwas killed andone enlisted man was wounded. This was the firsttime the enemy's502nd Battalion had encountered the 7th Mechanized ...
... gun and two lightmachine guns. The mechanized company sufferedonlytwo casualties. Warrant Officer Ninhwas killed andone enlisted man was wounded. This was the firsttime the enemy's502nd Battalion had encountered the 7th Mechanized ...
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... guns. Asthe helicopters camein toland, one CH21 washit but managed toget down safely. Theinfantry aboard the helicopters escaped without injury. Meanwhile, because of poor coordination in the ARVN andthe U.S. chainof command, the ...
... guns. Asthe helicopters camein toland, one CH21 washit but managed toget down safely. Theinfantry aboard the helicopters escaped without injury. Meanwhile, because of poor coordination in the ARVN andthe U.S. chainof command, the ...
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... guns. The battle between the VC andTank Troop 1/5 lasted allnight. The artillery at Nui Thanh provided fire support based onrequests received from Captain Hung, the commander of Troop 1/5. Finally, at first light on4 January 1965, Tank ...
... guns. The battle between the VC andTank Troop 1/5 lasted allnight. The artillery at Nui Thanh provided fire support based onrequests received from Captain Hung, the commander of Troop 1/5. Finally, at first light on4 January 1965, Tank ...
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... guns and 107mm and 122mm rockets. Neithertask force was able to evacuate itscasualties. At 0800 IIICorps Assault Force and 5th Ranger Task Force beganthe withdrawal,but by 1700 thatafternoon none of their units had managed to break ...
... guns and 107mm and 122mm rockets. Neithertask force was able to evacuate itscasualties. At 0800 IIICorps Assault Force and 5th Ranger Task Force beganthe withdrawal,but by 1700 thatafternoon none of their units had managed to break ...
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... guns,24 and M79 grenade launchersfrom the UnitedStates. On8June 1969, onlya little morethan four months after theParis Peace Conference began, 25U.S. president Richard M. Nixon held discussions with South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van ...
... guns,24 and M79 grenade launchersfrom the UnitedStates. On8June 1969, onlya little morethan four months after theParis Peace Conference began, 25U.S. president Richard M. Nixon held discussions with South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van ...
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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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