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To: rockfish59
Hi Rockfish..great picks.

Am not sure if you are a reader.., there is a paperback by Keith William Nolan..called "Into Laos"...operation Dewey Canyon-2.
You will not be able to put this book down...and you will twist while reading it.
I am amazed at the fortitude and bravery so many sections of the U.S. armed services showed assisting the ARVN in this op in 1971.
Nearly 50% of the AVRN were killed or wounded ....and the book reveals the true nature of the ARVN and its different units and commanders..some fought to a man and were slaughtered on firebase hilltops when overrun....others sat in their tanks several hundred yards away..and smoked cigs while the lot got massacred.
On GI was on a helo...got shot down over the firebase in Laos..stayed to direct Phantoms and other airstrikes...went to the skids 2 days later...last man out type thing..and was shot down minutes later...now he was stranded on the adjacent fire base hilltop a mile away...and under fire almost immediatly.
Second hand book stores should have this paperback.

92 posted on 11/12/2002 10:40:12 PM PST by Light Speed
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To: Light Speed
Thanks for the info. I do read about the war and 'The B-52 Overture' by Green Beret Don Bendell is fantastic. He also wrote 'Snake Eater', 'Crossbow', and 'Valley Of Tears!' He autographed each copy for me. He also writes westerns.
Bendell's site

94 posted on 11/13/2002 1:40:58 AM PST by rockfish59
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