First Force Recon Company: Sunrise at Midnight - Softcover

Peters, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804118736 ISBN 13: 9780804118736

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1999

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Book by Peters Bill

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A former commander with the Marine Force Recon combat platoon offers a firsthand look at the Vietnam conflict, describing the reconnaissance patrols, prisoner rescues, ambushes, and other battlefield campaigns in which he took part. Original.

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Recon you performed at a very high level of proficiency. Or you died. . . .

In 1969, First Lieutenant Bill Peters and the Force Recon Marines had one of the most difficult, dangerous assignments in Vietnam. From the DMZ to the Central Highlands, their job was to provide strategic and operational intelligence to insure the security of American units as the withdrawal of the troops progressed.

Making perilous helicopter inserts deep in the Que Son Mountains, where the constant chatter of AK-47 rifle fire left no doubt who was in charge, Peters and the other men of 1st Force Recon Company risked their lives every day in six-man teams, never knowing whether they would live to see the sunset. Peters's accounts of silently watching huge movements of heavily armed NVA regulars, prisoner snatches, sudden-death ambushes, and extracts from fiercely fought firefights vividly capture the realities of Recon Marine warfare, and offer a gritty tribute to the courage, heroism, and sacrifice

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0804118736
• ISBN 13: 9780804118736
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256