Description: Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung SatMemoir of a Combat Adviser in Vietnam, 1968-1969 Author(s): Bob Worthington Format: Paperback Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc, United States Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc ISBN-13: 9781476679419, 978-1476679419 Synopsis The Vietnam War was not going well in 1968. The January Tet Offensive?a tactical defeat but strategic victory for North Vietnam?showed the [url] military and the American public that the enemy remained determined, no nearer defeat. Americans grew war weary while politicians and military leaders could not agree on how to win or how to withdraw. Between combat tours, the author served as a [url] Army company commander?a job he came to despise. Experiencing what he perceived as a degradation in the Army's senior command, he resigned his commission. Yet he needed money to complete graduate school and volunteered to return to Vietnam as a combat advisor. This memoir describes his participation in the fiercest fighting of the war, on the Cambodian border, where he almost died of hookworm and was shot in a night operation. In Saigon to recuperate, he was tasked with creating an advisory team to train South Vietnamese commandos to conduct raids in the swamps south of Saigon, the Rung Sat Special Zone. For seven months they were successful, with Worthington receiving seven combat decorations.
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Book Title: Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat
Publisher: Mcfarland & Co INC International Concepts
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Number of Pages: 277 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fighting Viet Cong in the Rung Sat: Memoir of a Combat Adviser in Vietnam, 1968-1969
Type: Textbook
Author: Bob Worthington
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
