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Semper Fi: Vietnam: From Da Nang to the DMZ, Marine Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975

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Semper Fi: Vietnam: From Da Nang to the DMZ, Marine Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975
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From their early days in 1965 when the order of the day was to drive the insurgent Viet Cong from the villages around Da Nang to the final, dramatic evacuation of Saigon ten years later, Semper Fiâ€”Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail.

Acclimating to their strange new surroundings occupied the Marinesâ€™ first few weeks in South Vietnam. . . . Throughout the day, peasants dressed in pajama-like clothing and sporting conical hats worked the paddies behind the heaving water buffalo. . . .

If daytime scenes appeared bucolic, the arrival of sunset quickly changed that perception. Gunfire and explosions erupted at dusk. Marines nervously watched bright tracers cut colorful swaths across the night sky. From distant bamboo thickets, mortar shells flew skyward to crash in the paddies. The Marines were learning that the war in South Vietnam was unlike anything for which theyâ€™d been trained.
Country USA
Brand Presidio Press
Manufacturer Presidio Press
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0891418245_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2003-08-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780891418245

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