
- 331 pages
- English
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About this book
During his first tour in Vietnam - 1967-68 - Dick Taylor was a well trained and highly motivated amateur assigned to advise a hard-bitten ARVN infantry battalion working in the mud and streams of IV Corps. He became savvy in a hurry and found that he was both brave and resourceful. He barely survived Tet 1968, then served on an advisory team staff. For the next two years, Taylor earned a Ranger tab, served on a division staff, and schooled on. He met his wife, and married her days before he returned to Vietnam. Taylor's second tour - 1970-71 - was altogether different. He immediately assumed command of Bravo Company, 1/7 Cav, and excelled as a commander and a leader. He was aggressive in the field, confident in his command, and assertive with his superiors. He fought a good war, a successful war, and when he was forced to take a staff job it was as his battalion's intelligence officer. But the war was winding down, its purpose lost. Taylor's spirit's flagged, but not his fidelity. This well-written combat memoir is heartfelt, earnest, honest and just a little melancholy.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. History Repeats Itself
- Chapter 2. The Long Journey
- Chapter 3. Good Morning, Vietnam
- Chapter 4. Sliders
- Chapter 5. Assignment: Mekong Delta
- Chapter 6. Rude Awakening
- Chapter 7. Storm Clouds over the Double Y
- Chapter 8. Trouble at the Double Y
- Chapter 9. Friendly Fire
- Chapter 10. River Assault
- Chapter 11. Into Snoopy’s Nose
- Chapter 12. Changes
- Chapter 13. Sudden Death
- Chapter 14. East of the Sun
- Chapter 15. Unfriendly Fire
- Chapter 16. Big Storm
- Chapter 17. Gates of Hell
- Chapter 18. Storm Unremitting
- Chapter 19. Mopping Up
- Chapter 20. Rats of a Different Sort
- Chapter 21. Blessed Respite
- Chapter 22. Clock Winding Down
- Chapter 23. Revival
- Chapter 24. Returning
- Chapter 25. Garry Owen
- Chapter 26. Combat Assault
- Chapter 27. War Zone D
- Chapter 28. Green
- Chapter 29. High-Angle Hell
- Chapter 30: Operation Mercer
- Chapter 31. Reorienting
- Chapter 32. Bruised Heart
- Chapter 33. Recovery
- Chapter 34. Artillery Zone
- Chapter 35. Back to Bravo
- Chapter 36. Backs to the Wall
- Chapter 37: Staff Wars
- Chapter 38. Delta Demons
- Chapter 39. News From Home
- Chapter 40. All or Nothingt
- Chapter 41. Which Way Home?
- Chapter 42. Fragments
- Chapter 43. Saint Christopher
- Postmortem / Acknowledgments
- End Notes