Author: Edward F. Murphy
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0307416615
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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 Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark, riveting detail. Acclimating to their strange new surroundings occupied the Marines’ 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 they’d been trained.
Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
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 Fi—Vietnam relates the whole gutsy, glorious saga of the Marines in Vietnam in stark,
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
"This is not," according to Dan Rather, "one of those mumbo-jumbo, pseudo-philosophical books on leadership. Semper Fi is a book you will actually USE, read, and refer to again and again.”For more than 200 years, the U.S. Marine Corps has been a paragon of world-class leadership, excelling in the areas
Language: de
Pages: 973
Pages: 973
`Semper fi ́ist eine Parodie über science-fictionartige Symptome und Phänomene `moderner Zeiten ́, geschrieben als Abfolge einander infiszierender Episoden. Ort der surrealistischen Handlung ist eine fiktive Region im Schatten eines wiedererwachten Vulkans. Sein Ausbruch bewirkt ein meteorologisch wie lokalpolitisch katastrophales Klima, das die Region in die telekommunikative Isolation führt, ihre
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Here, one of America’s most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate conflicts ranging from the Marines’ gallant defense of Wake Island, where Captain
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Language: en
Pages: 340
Pages: 340
Gallagher Rule was born into the great depression as the grandson of Oklahoma pioneers. He inclined toward the classics and his heroes became Erasmus, Rembrandt, Mozart, and those Marines who won WWII. He worked in a dozen European countries as an electronic and mechanical engineer retiring with several dozen copyrights
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Language: en
Pages: 422
Pages: 422
Semper Fi, Mac brings to life the Marines of World War II - the tough, battle-trained troops who stormed the beaches of Bouganville, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa - in some of the bitterest and bloodiest fighting of the war. Compiled from over seventy-five interviews with surviving officers and