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The First Battle

Operation Starlite And the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam

By: Otto J. Lehrack

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The First Battle

Operation Starlite And the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam

By: Otto J. Lehrack

A Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War brings together interviews with fellow Marines and with men who fought with the 1st Viet Cong Regiment to provide a firsthand chronicle of Operation Starlite, which, in 1965, became the first major clash during America's involvement in Vietnam. Reprint.

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Presidio Press

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0891418865

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9780891418863

Road of 10,000 Pains

The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S. Marines, 1967

By: Otto J. Lehrack

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Road of 10,000 Pains

The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S. Marines, 1967

By: Otto J. Lehrack

This is an epic oral history of Vietnam's bloodiest campaign, fought for seven months in a series of battles, most of them within four miles of each other, along Route 534. Staring in October 1967, orders came down to the 2nd North Vietnamese Army Division commanding them to join with the local Viet Cong and seize the city of Danang in the Tet Offensive. After fighting for seven months in the Que Son Valley, the division was so battered that it failed to carry out its mission, with only one platoon making it inside the city limits. This is the true-life accounts of what fighting was like in that narrow, bloody valley from the veteran's own mouths, and how that saved Danang from suffering the same fate as Hue City

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Zenith Imprint

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0760338019

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9780760338018

Road of 10,000 Pains

The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S. Marines, 1967

By: Otto J. Lehrack

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The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S. Marines, 1967

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America's Battalion

Marines in the First Gulf War

By: Otto J. Lehrack

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America's Battalion

Marines in the First Gulf War

By: Otto J. Lehrack

The 3rd of the 3rd, also known as "America's Battalion," had just returned from deployment in the summer of 1990 when they were required to immediately re-deploy to a strange land to face a battle-hardened enemy after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Theirs was only the second Marine battalion to arrive in Saudi Arabia. They participated in the first allied ground operation of the war, played a key role in the battle for the city of Khafji, and were the first to infiltrate the Iraqi wire and minefield barrier in order to provide flank security for the beginning of the allied offensive.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817314520

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9780817314521

The First Battle

Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam

By: Otto J. Lehrack

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Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam

By: Otto J. Lehrack

“[A] brief but well-told and well-researched account . . . a good description of early U.S. Marine deployments to Vietnam” (HistoryNet). The First Battle is a graphic account of the Vietnam War’s first major clash. On August 18, 1965, regiment fought regiment on the Van Tuong Peninsula near the new Marine base at Chu Lai. On the American side were three battalions of Marines under the command of Col. Oscar Peatross, a hero of two previous wars. His opponent was the 1st Viet Cong Regiment commanded by Nguyen Dinh Trong, a veteran of many fights against the French and the South Vietnamese. Codenamed Operation Starlite, this action was a resounding success for the Marines, and its result was cause for great optimism about America’s future in Vietnam. Blood debt, han tu in Vietnamese, can mean revenge, debt of honor, or blood owed for blood spilled. The blood debt came into Vietnamese usage early in the war with the United States. With this battle, the Johnson Administration began compiling its own blood debt, this one to the American people. The book also looks at the ongoing conflict between the US Army and the US Marines about the methodology of the Vietnam War. With decades of experience with insurrection and rebellion, the Marines were institutionally oriented to base the struggle on pacification of the population. The Army, on the other hand, having largely trained to meet the Soviet Army on the plains of Germany, opted for search-and-destroy missions against Communist main force units. The history of the Vietnam War is littered with many “what ifs.” This may be the biggest of them.

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Casemate

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1612000312

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