Bravo Troop: A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir
During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City. In that time, Bravo Troop saw 10 percent of its average field strength killed while inflicting much heavier losses on the enemy. This memoir vividly recounts those six months of intense armored cavalry combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting his fire direction techniques and the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.

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Bravo Troop: A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir
During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City. In that time, Bravo Troop saw 10 percent of its average field strength killed while inflicting much heavier losses on the enemy. This memoir vividly recounts those six months of intense armored cavalry combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting his fire direction techniques and the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.

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Bravo Troop: A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir

Bravo Troop: A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir

by William Watson
Bravo Troop: A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir

Bravo Troop: A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir

by William Watson

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Overview

During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City. In that time, Bravo Troop saw 10 percent of its average field strength killed while inflicting much heavier losses on the enemy. This memoir vividly recounts those six months of intense armored cavalry combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting his fire direction techniques and the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476688466
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 06/17/2022
Pages: 278
Sales rank: 486,748
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Retired attorney William Watson was commissioned in the Army upon graduation from Princeton University in 1965 and went on active duty after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1968. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

1 Getting There 5

2 Welcome Aboard 23

3 Ap Bien Hoa 32

4 Little Rubber 51

5 First Boi Loi 66

6 Second Boi Loi 86

7 Long Trench 99

8 Cau Khoi Rubber 115

9 The Citadel 128

10 Country Store 140

11 Helmet Fight 159

12 War Correspondents 169

13 Sergeant Major Turner 176

14 Hoi Chan Fight 188

15 Baby Dumpling 201

16 CRIP 217

17 Defending Tay Ninh 226

18 Checking Out 242

Glossary 263

The Author's Service Record 267

Index 269

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