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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... bythe Cai BacDitch. Because the exact locations of the various VC installations were not known, theSpecial Zone broke TaNu down into eight differenttarget areas, designated as areas A through H. The entire target area was several ...
... bythe Cai BacDitch. Because the exact locations of the various VC installations were not known, theSpecial Zone broke TaNu down into eight differenttarget areas, designated as areas A through H. The entire target area was several ...
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... bythe armored vehicles, advancedtothe targets, searched for caches, and confiscated captured equipment. TargetB was the enemy's stronghold. Because Task Force 12's attack onitwasquick, powerful, and caughtthe enemy by surprise, the ...
... bythe armored vehicles, advancedtothe targets, searched for caches, and confiscated captured equipment. TargetB was the enemy's stronghold. Because Task Force 12's attack onitwasquick, powerful, and caughtthe enemy by surprise, the ...
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... bythe National Assembly and the Cambodian Royal Council whilethe princewas on a visitto France. General Lon Nol, chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces General Staff, took controlof the government, which was recognized by Washington ...
... bythe National Assembly and the Cambodian Royal Council whilethe princewas on a visitto France. General Lon Nol, chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces General Staff, took controlof the government, which was recognized by Washington ...
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... bythe 2ndArmored CavalrySquadron under the command ofMajor Ta Dinh Sieu, advanced about six kilometers into Cambodiato attackan area westofthe “Crow's Nest.” Theforces conducting this operation raninto heavy enemy resistance,but ...
... bythe 2ndArmored CavalrySquadron under the command ofMajor Ta Dinh Sieu, advanced about six kilometers into Cambodiato attackan area westofthe “Crow's Nest.” Theforces conducting this operation raninto heavy enemy resistance,but ...
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... bythe 9th Regiment of the ARVN5th Infantry Division, wasaimedat capturingBase Area350. Two battalionsof the 9th InfantryRegiment were landed inthe target areaby U.S. helicopters. The 1stArmored Cavalry Squadron, commanded by Lieutenant ...
... bythe 9th Regiment of the ARVN5th Infantry Division, wasaimedat capturingBase Area350. Two battalionsof the 9th InfantryRegiment were landed inthe target areaby U.S. helicopters. The 1stArmored Cavalry Squadron, commanded by Lieutenant ...
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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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