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Blackhorse Tales
Don Snedeker
其他書名
Stories of 11th Armored Cavalry Troopers at War
出版
Casemate
, 2021-08-16
主題
History / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War
History / Military / United States
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
History / Military / Land Forces
History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN
1636240437
9781636240435
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-_M5EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
The war stories and combat narratives of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment during five-and-a-half years of combat in Vietnam.
When the U.S. Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965, the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantryman’s war; if there were any role at all for armored forces, it would be strictly to support the infantry. However, from the time the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment arrived in the country in September 1966, troopers of the Blackhorse Regiment demonstrated the fallacy of this assumption. By the time of Tet ’68, the Army’s leadership began to understand that the Regiment’s mobility, firepower, flexibility, and leadership made a difference on the battlefield well beyond its numbers.
Over the course of the 11th Cavalry’s five-and-a-half years in combat in South Vietnam and Cambodia, over 25,000 young men served in the Regiment. Their stories—and those of their families—represent the Vietnam generation in graphic, sometimes humorous, often heart-wrenching detail. Collected by the author through hundreds of in-person, telephone, and electronic interviews over a period of twenty-five-plus years, these “war stories” provide context for the companion volume,
The Blackhorse in Vietnam
.
Amongst the stories of the Blackhorse troopers and their families are the tales of the wide variety of animals they encountered during their time in combat, as well as the variable landscape, from jungle to rice paddies, and weather.
Blackhorse Tales
concludes with a look at how the troopers dealt with their combat experiences since returning from Vietnam.
“Without question, Donald Snedeker has paid a fitting tribute to this superb unit, its soldiers, and their families.” —
Military Review