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1968-Into the Abyss The Elite Tunnel Rats by Riley St James Soft Cover
1968-Into the Abyss The Elite Tunnel Rats by Riley St James
Soft Cover
158 pages
Copyright 2012
CONTENTS
Foreword Warfare on a Skewer?
Prologue The Elite Tunnel Rats
Chapter One Di-An Camp of the 1st Infantry Division-Bien Hoa
Chapter Two DI-AN Camp of the 1st Infantry Division-The Big Red One
Chapter Three Phouc Tuy Provence East of Saigon-Operation AKRON III
Chapter Four May 1967-US Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia
Chapter Five September 1967-Di-An Base-Tunnel Rat Development
Chapter Six Fall 1967- Di-An Base- Into the Tunnels
Chapter Seven Catchers Mitt-Northeast of Bien Hoa, River Song Dong Nai
Chapter Eight Late Fall, 1967 Binh Duong North of Saigon (Iron Triangle)
Chapter Nine Di-An-Base Camp, 1st Infantry Division-Southwest Bien Hoa
Chapter Ten The Turning-Point Year-Early January 1968-Di-An
Chapter Eleven Mike Force Assassins-Tet Counteroffensive-January 1968
Chapter Twelve The Turning-Point Year-1968-Tet Offensive
Chapter Thirteen The Turning-Point Year-1968-Into the Spring
Chapter Fourteen 1968-Tet Counteroffensive Phase IV-May
Chapter Fifteen Di-An-Tet Counteroffensive Phase IV-June
Chapter Sixteen Di-An-Tet Counteroffensive Phase IV-August
Chapter Seventeen Di-An-Tet Counteroffensive Phase IV-September
Epilogue The Elite Tunnel Rats
ON THE BACK COVER
What if after decades there was still one more untold incredible Viet Nam war saga supported with authentic personal action photos and peppered with tightly-written notes from then young, not yet twenty, and highly decorated leader of a small group of underground and Special Force combatants who searched and destroyed over 900 tunnels?
What if this saga was more compelling than typical battlefield heroics by including experiences of this same elite group of fighters, led by multiple-medal awarded Staff Sergeant Thomas Wergen, who linked up with Special Forces for covert combat missions into areas across the South Vietnamese border such as Cambodia and Laoswhere according to the U.S. power's political spin "they weren't."
What if along with their bloodstained tales this saga entailed accurate and concise historic tidbits, including anecdotes of the U.S. protests across America, during the bloodiest and heaviest fighting period in the war when America had committed over 500,000 troopsthe infamous TET counteroffensive phase of 1968?
Then you would have, 1968Into the Abyss, a book-length war account ofBronz-Star Medal and Combat Infantryman's Badge decoratedArmy Staff Sergeant Thomas E. Wergenincluding over forty original color photos snapped by Sergeanu Wergen.
So turn the lights up bright and follow along in these dense jungle war talesjust try not to get lost, or capturedby the enemy, that is.
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