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The Boys on Cherry Street is a collection of stories both humorous and heroic. The stories start with the zany and outrageous antics of the author and his college friends and continues through his U.S. Marine Corps training, flight school and service in Vietnam. There are many great books written about the Vietnam War-its heroes, their courage and sacrifice. However, this book is different in that it also shows the keen sense of humor that some men showed in some of the most stressful situations imaginable. It was this sense of humor that Boehm believe was part of their coping mechanism that got them through the tense situations of combat. The book is a salute to the young men of the Vietnam War Era who answered their country's call.

James V. Weatherill served as an Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam from November 1967 to November 1968. His memoir, THE BLADES CARRY ME: INSIDE THE HELICOPTER WAR IN VIETNAM, takes the reader into the CH-47 Chinook helicopter cockpit and the daily life of a 22-year-old pilot. The young man must reconcile his ideals of patriotism, courage, and honor with the reality and politics of a war where victory is measured by body-count ratios instead of territory gained or lost. When it's time to go home, he realizes he'll leave more than war behind. On the home front, the pilot's wife, Annie, provides a counterpoint as a pregnant college senior and military spouse during an unpopular war. With letters and tape recordings their sole means of communication, how will they grow up without growing apart?

Vietnam. A USMC A-4 Skyhawk pilot. PTSD. He survived Vietnam, but would he survive its aftermath? The experiences of combat produce different memories by those whom have served. Some return as warriors, seemingly unscathed. With others, their life is never the same. The horrors of each mission come back to haunt them for years. Ten years after returning from Vietnam as a two time decorated A-4 Skyhawk pilot, Captain Robert "Gene" Lathrop described war as hell. Flying the scooter as a part of VMA-311, he completed over 275 missions. His squadron completed 54,625 sorties dropping over 9 million tons of bombs. That record will never be broken. But the bomb damage assessment was steep for Captain Lathrop. The nightmares and emotional rage he experienced threatened to tear apart his family. To keep from unraveling, he sought a voice in the written word. This memoir serves as part of his mission to honor the men and women of the military. He believed veterans who return to peacetime should never feel eternally at war.

"In the spring of 1967, Tom Haines received his bachelor's degree in one hand and his draft notice in the other. With a wicked sense of humor and appreciation for the absurd, SNAFU: my Vietnam vacation of 1969, chronicles his journey from basic infantry training at Fort Dix to joining Remington's Raiders in Pleiku and An Khe, Vietnam."--Back cover

"This is the story of a civilian technology engineer working with the Marines in DaNang, Vietnam, from 1968 to 1969. Wilhelm arrived in a blue suit and tie from a military plane and finally found his back way to the USA for a company who would not agree to end his work term long after it was over. A Civilian Working in a War Zone: The position was working with the computer technology of the time and the US Marine Corp. No one else from his company had previously gone to Vietnam to tell him what he could expect. No one was there to meet his plane! Working with the Marines: The memories include the night sky being alive with planes circling the base, listening to a bamboo band play American military songs, learning first-hand how difficult holidays are in a war, and not being allowed to carry a weapon. His volunteer position as a substitute English teacher for the South Vietnamese was protected by Marines with shotguns and side-arms. Life Learning: This is a story of survival and the life perspective war can bring. Gary Wilhelm worked with the Marines and using the computer technology of the time. As an engineer, Wilhelm viewed rocket attacks as physics lessons which he describes in one story. He never knew when he might have to travel to another country to phone the United States, so at a moment's notice, he had many unplanned adventures. He planned his own travel to finally leave Vietnam when his company kept ignoring his requests to return home a year longer than his assignment"--

In 1960, when I first entered college, war was the furthest thing from my mind. John Kennedy had been elected President of the USA and I was focused on simply enjoying college and some day, perhaps, going to law school. Little did I realize on August 2, 1964, that the U.S. destroyer Maddox in exchanging shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin would result in my being sent to Vietnam to support our war effort. How did I get there? What happened to me in that country? What followed thereafter? Read 50 short tales that tell the story. Donald Strauss has had a 34 year career as an executive in Fortune 100 companies. He has also taught graduate school programs in Human Resources & Career Management for over 25 years. Additionally, he has been a career consultant and was Co-Director of a non-profit retirement planning firm. His degrees are from NYU and the University of Illinois.

Now a major motion picture. This is the first time that those in direct command of Delta Company have shared their memories of the most significant battle fought by Australians in Vietnam, the Battle of Long Tan. They describe the experiences that brought them to Vietnam, and how Company commander Harry Smith drove Delta Company to become one of the most outstanding units in the Australian forces. Each platoon played a crucial role in Delta Company's survival. The artillery's commitment in providing an unbroken wall of metal through which the enemy had to advance is told from the perspectives of both the forward controller and the gun positions. We fly with the RAAF helicopter pilots whose ammunition resupply was the turning point of the battle, and experience the carnage of the battlefield through the eyes of those in the relieving APCs. The trauma of the battle did not end with the action, however, as politics began to play its part in the drama. The valour of those directly involved in the battle was never duly recognised. The ongoing efforts of the Long Tan commanders to right the many wrongs perpetrated in the wake of the battle, and their own journeys from the events of August 1966 draw the reader into a compelling dialogue on the aftermath of Vietnam. Previously published as The Battle of Long Tan: As told by the commanders

And Then SPARKS flew studies 70 former students from South Park High School who lost their lives in service while assigned to air units.

Silent Spring - Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War (SSDAVW) may have been written too late to help aging Vietnam veterans with their toxic exposures and many diverse illnesses, but it's not too late to help future generations of military personnel from encountering the same fate. SSDAVW is a surreal voyage into everything the US government hasn't told you about the Vietnam War and doesn't want you to know. It's a book that cuts through to the heart of the circumstances and deadly chemicals used throughout that war.This book is more than a memoir; it's an investigative journey into the conditions US service personnel served under, and the scars we carried with us for decades. The unfortunate truth is, as soldiers, we were expendable in Vietnam, and our soldiers will be expendable in the future if we do nothing to help protect our next generation of warriors!

"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story - a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn't put it down."- Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man"Exhilarating and inspiring."- Elaine Showalter, Washington Post The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington-and Hanoi-to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves "feminists," but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom-and to account for missing military men-by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-read list.

Recollections of a Vietnam veteran of his experiences in combat; his relationships with family back home and with friends.

This is the story of one of the United States' 72 living Medal of Honor recipients, in his own words. In his memoir, Al Lynch tells the story of how he went from being a bullied kid to a Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War and to overcoming PTSD and helping fellow veterans.

When she was 18, she joined the Army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it."Loved it loved it loved it. Finally a good book about nurses in Vietnam. I read this whole book in one sitting." - 5 star amazon review.

Positioning statement: The untold story of the FBI informants who penetrated the upper reaches of organizations such as the Communist Party, USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labeled threats to the internal security of the United States. Sales points: Tells the story of FBI informants in Communist groups in America in the 60s and 70s Uses newly released FBI documents to uncover significant information about various suspected FBI informants The follow up to their groundbreaking 2015 book, Heavy Radicals. Topical in light of recent US Government leaks and FBI cover-ups Synopsis: Sometime in the late fall/early winter of 1962, a document began circulating among members of the Communist Party USA based in the Chicago area, titled ''Whither the Party of Lenin.'' It was signed ''The Ad Hoc Committee for Scientific Socialist Line.'' This was not the work of factionally inclined CP comrades, but rather something springing from the counter-intelligence imagination of the FBI. A Threat of the First Magnitude tells the story of the FBI's fake Maoist organization, The Ad Hoc Committee for a Scientific Socialist Line, and the informants the FBI used to penetrate the highest levels of the Communist Party USA, the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Union and other groups labelled threats to the internal security of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. As once again the FBI is thrust into the spotlight of US politics, A Threat of a First Magnitude offers a view of the historic inner-workings of the Bureau's counterintelligence operations - from generating ''''fake news'''' and the utilization of ''''sensitive intelligence methods'''' to the handling of ''''reliable sources'''' - that matches or exceeds the sophistication of any contenders.

The author recounts his personal experiences and those of his fellow HMM-262 Marine Aviators who flew CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters in Phu Bai, South Vietnam from 1969-1970.

In Flying Through the Years, Bob Lanzotti provides his memoirs as an Army helicopter pilot during three overseas tours, all conducted during the turbulent 1960s. Each tour--one to Korea and two to Vietnam--contains a least a score of short stories. Lanzotti begins with his often humorous reflections as a fledgling aviator in Korea. As the book progresses, so too do Lanzotti's aviator experience level and job responsibilities, culminating with his command of the Crimson Tide, a Chinook unit within the 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division. His stories recurrently pay well-earned homage to the achievements of the men he served and flew with during what he recalls as his greatest adventure.

"The story of a Marine overseas and his girl back home in New York. Their letters encompass a first hand look at the Vietnam War and the love forged during a year apart ... The journey toward this book began 50 years ago, with the hundreds of letters Mac and I wrote to each other. While packing for a cross-country move, I opened the box containing those letters and rediscovered the people we were then. Memories flooded back. I shared the stories with friends. Family members convinced me to use these letters as the foundation for a book, which would tell our story and relay a history of 1968-1970 from a first hand perspective. I was able to access information from Mac's USMC records and other research sources, which helped me to better understand the things he'd alluded to in his letters. It was like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. Facts, time and perspective joined to give me a bigger, clearer picture of those eventful years. I've learned that life must be lived forward, but understood by looking back.'--

"BATTLEFIELD 44" is offered in three volumes covering successive periods of the 1st Battalion, 52nd Infantry's deployment to Vietnam: - Volume I - October 26, 1967 through April 20, 1969; - Volume II - April 21, 1969 through June 30, 1970; - Volume III - July 1, 1970 through October 10, 1971. Each volume contains written accounts and photos from veterans of the Battalion, as well as Army newspaper articles of the periods covered, and the comlete set of the Battalion Tactical Operations Center Daily Journal entries, recording detailed actions of the units and soldiers. Veterans of the Battalion will be able to trace the events related to their service while in Vietnam.

Teardrops of War (Revised) is movie production ready. Teardrops of War (Revised) is dramatic, but the reading is not overly graphic; nevertheless, the reader will receive a tearful connection with wars unseen participants.