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Title: The Hill Fights : The First Battle of Khe Sanh by Edward F. Murphy ISBN: 0-89141-810-5 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Forgotten in the Longrass
Comment: At last some daylight comes to this forgotten chapter of marine corps history. The 3/3 marines were rendered combat ineffective by this series of vicious and wicked fights north of Khe Sanh. The very tool (M-16) the marines were given to do the job jammed after several hundred rounds were fired. Although this book does not go into exacting details for the failure of the M-16 rifle, it does an excellent cover of the men involved in the fighting. Be not deceived, marines are trained to clean their rifles as needed. I am glad to hear that the U.S. Marine Corps is finally giving the men who fought these battles the long overdue recognition they so richly deserve. My brother Thomas Wheeler and the 3/3 marines, fought hard for their lives on those lonely hills north of Khe Sanh not so long ago. This book indeed does justice to the men who did the job they were told to do not so long ago.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Story That Needed To Be Told
Comment: A well written account of the events taking place around Khe Sanh in the Spring of 1967.
However some errors were noted in the accounts of actions taking place leading up to the Hill Fights and that made the whole book suspect for me..
Rating: 4
Summary: Forgotten battles and deaths
Comment: This is a book from the fire team, squad and platoon viewpoint of vicious fighting and death. The book covers events in 1967 of fighting in the hills surrounding the Khe Sanh airbase. The author provides a brief overview of how the Marines got into the Khe Sanh area at the insistence of General Westmoreland, MACV Commander. And the problems that move caused for the Marines fighting a long way from their support in difficult terrain. Most of the book provides in great detail the actions by individuals, NCOs and junior officers of their terrible hardships and blood shed in those hills and jungle. The author also covers the serious problems the Marines had with their M16 rifles which had just been introduced into the field prior to the Hill Fights. Thirty-six years later the M16 works a lot better in combat, but in 1967 it failed our Marines in the hills. The appendix provides a short bio of the key individuals mentioned and what happened to them after the fighting in their later years.
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Title: Ambush Valley: I Corps, Vietnam, 1967-The Story of a Marine Infantry Battalion's Battle for Survival by Eric M. Hammel ISBN: 0935553460 Publisher: Pacifica Military History Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: West Dickens Avenue : A Marine at Khe Sanh by John Corbett ISBN: 0891417850 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The March Up : Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith, Bing West ISBN: 055380376X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Foxtrot Ridge: A Battle Remembered by Mark W. Woodruff ISBN: 0918339588 Publisher: Vandamere Pr Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth ISBN: 0743466438 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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