Firebase Tan Tru

Memoir of an Artilleryman in the Mekong Delta, 1969-1970

Walter F. McDermott (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6852-9 (ISBN)

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What was it like to live through the only war America lost in the twentieth century? Firebase Tan Tru answers that question by describing one man's adventures fighting in Vietnam's Mekong Delta during the peak of the war in 1969. A unique feature of this story is that it focuses upon that rare enlisted man who was already a college graduate.

Walter McDermott graduated with honors from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1968, enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to the Mekong Delta in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War. A specialist with the Ninth Infantry Division, he provided artillery support to infantry patrols while struggling to cope with the authoritarian severity of the Army and the Alice-in-Wonderland madness of the war. His frank memoir relates the surreality of combat and traces his own metamorphosis from thoughtful undergrad to jaded veteran.

Walter F. McDermott, Ph.D., a Vietnam combat veteran, is a retired clinical psychologist who treated combat PTSD veterans for nearly 30 years, mainly at the Jacksonville, Florida, Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic’s Mental Health Unit. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Avoidable Casualties

2. Basic Training

3. Advanced Individual Training

4. Arriving in Country

5. Tan An

6. Liaison Specialist and a Failure

7. Air Power Support

8. Dinner with a Wealthy Vietnamese Farmer

9. The Helicopter War

10. Rocket Attack

11. Losing the War

12. Time on Target Attack

13. Firebase Animals

14. Reconnaissance Platoon Tragedy

15. Burning Shit

16. Fragging

17. The Food

18. Weapons

19. Atypical Duty

20. Unique Nights

21. Drugs

22. Officers

23. Vietnamese Enemies vs. Allies

24. Saigon

25. Tan An Sniper

26. Religion

27. Weddings

28. Firebase Drinking Clubs

29. Viet Cong Attacks

30. Media Biases

31. Coming Home

32. Reflections

Vietnam Glossary

Military Service History of Walter F. McDermott

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2018
Zusatzinfo	21 photos, glossary, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4766-6852-3 / 1476668523
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6852-9 / 9781476668529
Zustand	Neuware