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Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam
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Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam

Overview

This historical volume introduces us to the Navy’s river force and American advisers to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. U.S. Navy and Marines securing the Rung Sat that was owned by Viet Cong early in the War offered our navy a river patrol craft that allowed for early naval intelligence attempts.  Riverine warfare training because a mission for training sailors at home in addition to SEALS and SEALORDS for additional coastal surveillance force to support the riverine forces. Vice Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. proved to be a strategic leader to:
* plan a combined-arms, 
* multi-service, 
* multinational approach to interdicting Communist infiltration from Cambodia 
* and destroying enemies within the Mekong Delta

The fast patrol craft or swift boat became one of the Navy’s workhorses from the SEALORDS CAMPAIGN. The Army’s Dust Off, medical evacuation helicopter is also introduced within this resource to provide medical attention to those in combat as part of rescue missions. 

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The Approaching Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945-1965 (ePub ISBN: 9780160928604)
Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972 (ePub ISBN: 9780160928697)
The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and the Marine POWs in the Vietnam War (ePub ISBN: 9780160928635)
Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon (ePub ISBN: 9780160928666)
Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign (ePub ISBN: 9780160931222)
Knowing the Enemy: Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia (ePub ISBN: 9780160937361)
Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War (ePub ISBN: 9780160955433)
End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia (ePub ISBN: 9780160955570)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780160955556
Publisher: United States Dept. of Defense
Publication date: 09/16/2019
Series: The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War , #5
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 98
Sales rank: 121,302
File size: 18 MB
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Age Range: 17 - 18 Years

About the Author

Edward J. Marolda has served as Acting Director of Naval History and Senior Historian of the Naval Historical Center (redesignated the Naval History and Heritage Command). He has written a number of books on the U.S. Navy’s modern experience in Southeast Asia, including From Military Assistance to Combat, 1959–1965, vol. 2 (with Oscar P. Fitzgerald) in the official series The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict, and By Sea, Air, and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the War in Southeast Asia. Dr. Marolda holds degrees in history from Pennsylvania Military College (BA), Georgetown University (MA), and George Washington University (PhD). R. Blake Dunnavent is an associate professor of history at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He is the author of Brown Water Warfare: The U.S. Navy in Riverine Warfare and the Emergence of a Tactical Doctrine, 1775–1970. He also authored chapters in two books: “Maverick—Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. (1920–2000),” in Nineteen Gun Salute: Case Studies of Strategic and Operational Naval Leadership during the 20th Century, John B. Hattendorf and Bruce A. Elleman, eds. (Naval War College Press, 2010); and “Battle for the Mekong: The River War in Vietnam,” in Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land. He earned a BA from Abilene Christian University (1990), and holds MA (1992) and PhD (1998) degrees in history from Texas Tech University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The First Indochina War
The Vietnam Navy River Force and American Advisors
The U.S. Navy and the Rivers of Vietnam
SEALORDS
The End of the Line for U.S. and Vietnamese River Forces

Sidebars:
The PBR
Riverine Warfare Training
Battle Fleet of the Mekong Delta
High Drama in the Delta
Vice Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.
Black Ponies
The Swift Boat
Warriors with Green Faces

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