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The first weeks were especially dangerous for young infantry soldiers shipped to Vietnam. Army Pfc. Luia Rodgers, 20, began his tour of duty Dec. 20, 1967. He died in combat 10 weeks later.
American military personnel who served in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States military people of the Vietnam War . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
US Marines In Vietnam 1965-1973 by Charles D. Melson; US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-1970 Vietnam by Oscar Gilbert; The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam by Charles W. Sasser/Craig Roberts; The War That Would Not End-US Marines In Vietnam by Charles D. Melson; Warlord - No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy - Ilario Pantano
Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that portrayed the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War for American readers.
Marsden says that Nguyen hadn’t previously told that part of the story on camera but that 50 years on, “there were a lot of people who felt able to tell stories that they hadn't before.”
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division .
The CD contains the names of the 58,196 American soldiers who died or were missing in action in the Vietnam War. [3] It is narrated by Adrian Cronauer , the Armed Forces Radio disc jockey Robin Williams portrayed in the film Good Morning, Vietnam .
Hunger was a frequent problem for Ninh and his fellow soldiers, who often moved back and forth from their homes to the battlefields. Of the five hundred who went to war with the brigade in 1969, Ninh is one of ten who survived. Ninh described the fear caused among Vietnamese soldiers by American airpower while in combat during the war: