The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Armored Division, deployed to Vietnam from Fort Hood, Texas, in August 1967. Search and Destroy covers the 1/1's harrowing first year and a half of combat in the war's toughest area of operations: I Corps. The book takes readers into the savage acti[...]
The violent birth, life, and death of an American fire base in Vietnam is chronicled in vivid, lively detail in a historical account of the last major American land offensive of the Vietnam War. Reprint.[...]
On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines' Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as "the Magnificent Bastards," struggles to eject NVA forces from this strategic position.