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Tragedy at Chu Lai

Author: David Venditta

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1476624380

Nicky Venditti, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with a love of fast cars and practical jokes, went to Vietnam in 1969 and was dead in 11 days, killed by an Americal Division grenade training explosion at Chu Lai. The full story of the incident did not come out until the author, David Venditta (a different spelling), Venditti's cousin, made a chance discovery that began a decades-long effort to find out exactly what happened, what the Army did about it and who was held responsible. This book documents the Army's mishandling of the incident and the effects on the families and friends of Venditti and of the two other young soldiers who died with him.

Seabee 71 in Chu Lai

Author: David H. Lyman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1476678448

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Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By summer 1967 he was with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian life, Lyman was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a photojournalist. He documented the lives of the hard-working and hard-drinking SeaBees as they engineered roads, runways, heliports and base camps for the troops. The author was shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, and spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway. He rode on convoys through Viet Cong territory to photograph villages outside "The Wire." The stories and photographs Lyman published as editor of the battalion's newspaper, The Transit, form the basis of this memoir.

One Morning in the War

Author: Richard Hammer

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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From Chu Lai to Saigon

Author: Sean M. Heuvel

Publisher: Hellgate Press

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781954163003

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When Brig. Gen. Wallace L. Clement first arrived in Vietnam in December 1968, he was eager to serve his country and continue his advancement in the U.S. Army. A distinguished combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War, General Clement was well equipped to lead troops in battle. However, what he found in Vietnam was a complex conflict he would later refer to as "that strange war." FROM CHU LAI TO SAIGON explores General Clement's Vietnam War journey through his letters home and through the recollections of those who served with him.

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The Landing And The Buildup, 1965

Author: Dr. Jack Shulimson

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1787200833

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This is the second volume in a series of chronological histories prepared by the Marine Corps History and Museums Division to cover the entire span of Marine Corps involvement in the Vietnam War. This volume details the Marine activities during 1965, the year the war escalated and major American combat units were committed to the conflict. The narrative traces the landing of the nearly 5,000-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and its transformation into the ΙII Marine Amphibious Force, which by the end of the year contained over 38,000 Marines. During this period, the Marines established three enclaves in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, and their mission expanded from defense of the Da Nang Airbase to a balanced strategy involving base defense, offensive operations, and pacification. This volume continues to treat the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese armed forces but in less detail than its predecessor volume, U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1964; The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era.

Four Hours in My Lai

Author: Michael Bilton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1993-03-01

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0140177094

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Uncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war."—Chicago Tribune.

2D Surgical Hospital

Author: Lorna Griess

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 152456303X

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This book is about living and working in a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) in South Vietnam. It talks about the hospital itself, the setting, how we lived, how we coped with less-than-good circumstances, the type of patients we received, the equipment we worked with, and the emotional highs and lows that were part of every day. The stories are true. Some of the dates and numbers of things may be off a little; that was a long time ago. Names have not been used to protect the wonderful, dedicated people with whom I worked and lived with.

Hostile Fire

Author: Philip Bigler

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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During the early morning hours of June 8, 1969, a Soviet-built 122-mm rocket slammed into ward 4 of the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, Vietnam. Lt. Sharon A. Lane, a young, attractive 24-year-old nurse from Canton, Ohio, died instantly. Though seven other American military nurses lost their lives serving in Vietnam, Lt. Lane was the only American service-woman killed as a direct result of enemy fire throughout the war. Her life and untimely death have come to epitomize the duty, honor, and sacrifice of the almost 11,000 American military and naval nurses who served the country during the Vietnam ara. Hostile Fire is based on extensive interviews with veterans, family, and friends; a review of official records; and Lt. Lane's own letters home which were carefully preserved by her family. The author paints a picture of a vibrant and dedicated young woman, tragically killed just as her adult life was beginning.Skillfully placed within the historical and political context of the period, the story provides the reader with a powerful and personal look at Vietnam and those who served.

India Company

Author: Robert Seiber

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781622122646

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American Marines arrived at Chu Lai, South Vietnam in May 1965. Over the next several months, the Marines not only engaged the enemy in brutal combat, but also had to contend with the harsh climate and rough terrain, which took its toll on the men not only physically but mentally. The inexperienced Marines, who were mostly teenagers, engaged the enemy troops, known as the Viet Cong, who had been fighting South Vietnamese forces for twenty years. Over the next three months, the Marines fought the Viet Cong insurgents near the airbase. On August 18, two battalions of marines, including the third battalion, third marines, engaged the First Viet Cong regiment in the first major battle of the Vietnam War between American forces and communist troops. The brutal five-day operation, known as Starlite, was a major victory for the Marines. Author Robert Seiber joined the United States Marines at the age of seventeen in 1963. He took part in Starlite. Robert Seiber was born in Tennessee, but raised in Minnesota. After two tours in Vietnam in which he received two purple hearts, he worked for a major equipment manufacturer for thirty years.He is retired and now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where he spends most of his time fishing. This is his first book. His next is a murder mystery. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/RobertSiebe

India Company

Author: Robert Seiber

Publisher:

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781631354243

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American Marines arrived at Chu Lai, South Vietnam in May 1965. Over the next several months, the Marines not only engaged the enemy in brutal combat, but also had to contend with the harsh climate and rough terrain, which took its toll on the men not only physically but mentally. The inexperienced Marines, who were mostly teenagers, engaged the enemy troops, known as the Viet Cong, who had been fighting South Vietnamese forces for twenty years. Over the next three months, the Marines fought the Viet Cong insurgents near the airbase. On August 18, two battalions of marines, including the third battalion, third marines, engaged the First Viet Cong regiment in the first major battle of the Vietnam War between American forces and communist troops. The brutal five-day operation, known as Starlite, was a major victory for the Marines. Author Robert Seiber joined the United States Marines at the age of seventeen in 1963. He took part in Starlite. Robert Seiber was born in Tennessee, but raised in Minnesota. After two tours in Vietnam in which he received two purple hearts, he worked for a major equipment manufacturer for thirty years. He is retired and now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, where he spends most of his time fishing. This is his first book. His next is a murder mystery. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/RobertSeiber