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Boys of ’67 The by Andrew Wiest Charlie Company's War in Vietnam
Boys of 67, The by Andrew Wiest
Charlie Company's War in Vietnam
Soft Cover
448 pages
Copyright 2012
CONTENTS
Preface: Meeting Charlie9
Introduction: The Need for Charlie21
Prelude: Losing the Best We Had29
Chapter 1: Who Was Charlie?37
Chapter 2: Training58
Chapter 3: To Vietnam and into the Rung Sat102
Chapter 4: Into Battle153
Chapter 5: The Day Everything Changed188
Chapter 6: The Steady Drumbeat of War251
Chapter 7: Charlie Transformed, Battlefield Coda,
and the Freedom Bird289
Chapter 8: Home From War343
Glossary401
The Men of Charlie Company407
Bibliography426
Acknowledgments433
Dedication437
Index439
ON THE BACK COVER
In the spring of 1966 the Vietnam War was intensifying, driven by the US military build up, under which the 9th Infantry Division was reactivated. Charlie Company was part of the 9th and representative of the melting pot of America. But, unlike the vast majority of other companies in the US Army, the men of Charlie Company were a close-knit family. They joined up together, trained together, and were deployed together.
This is their story. From the joker who roller-skated into the Company First Sergeant's office wearing a dress, to the nerdy guy with two left feet who would rather be off somewhere inventing computers, and the everyman who just wanted to keep his head down and get through unnoticed and preferably unscathed. Written by leading Vietnam expert. Dr Andrew Wiest, The Boys of '67 tells the unvarnished truth about the war in Vietnam, recounting the fear of death and the horrors of battle through the recollections of the young men themselves. America doesn't know their names or their story, the story of the boys of Charlie, young draftees who had done everything that their nation had asked of them and received so little in return lost faces and silent voices of a distant war.
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