Just Another Day in Vietnam

by Keith M. Nightingale

Overview

This military memoir examines one of the most vicious and tragically forgotten battles of the Vietnam War from a variety of perspectives.
 
In June of 1967, the Viet Cong sought to isolate and destroy an elite South Vietnamese unit as part of a new offensive strategy. They sent a voluntary POW as an “informant” to dupe the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion into taking a dangerous position in the III Corps sector of South Vietnam. In the midst of an ambush, the members of the 52nd Ranger Battalion conducted themselves with great skill and valor. As one of those men, Keith Nightingale is uniquely suited to relate the events of that day.
 
Based on firsthand experience as well as After Action Reports from a variety of sources, Just Another Day in Vietnam explores multiple perspectives, affording equal weight to ally and enemy alike. Nightingale offers rare insight into the often misunderstood role of the elite Vietnamese Ranger forces; the intelligence acquired from captured Rangers; and a rare eyewitness account to this fateful yet underexamined Vietnam battle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612007861
Publisher:	Casemate Publishers
Publication date:	01/08/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	347,476
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Colonel Keith Nightingale is that rarest of breeds—a hard-core military man who wields a pen as brilliantly as any weapon, and strategically deploys a full literary arsenal. Targeting our senses with the sights, sounds, smells, textures, and even the tastes of war, his myriad of minute physical details, visual similes, and extended metaphors invariably strike home. To quote Pulitzer-Prize winner Tom Ricks, contributing editor to Foreign Policy: “If you want to know about war, Keith Nightingale is your man.” Nightingale’s work is further endorsed by General David Petraeus, General Volney Wagner, Susan Eisenhower, Emmy-winner Dennis Murphy, and other luminaries.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Ground; The Initiation; The Beginning; The Interrogation; The Plan; Choices; The Ranger Battalion; The Commander; The Assembly; A Proper Regiment; The 175 Artillery Battery; The Mortar Gunners; Movement to Contact; The Pickup Zone; Airborne; The Movement; The Decision; Closure; Aid to Brothers; Division of Responsibility; The Black Lines; The Bug; Command Decision; The Spot; The Spooky; The Ambush; The Rain; The Fog; Reinforcement; Softly in the Night; The Plan; The Shoal of Fish; Fire Support; Infantry and Air; Air Strikes; Bomb Burst; Bien Hoa Control; Light; The VC Prisoner; The Ranger Prisoners; The Arc Light; The B-52 Strike—Air; The B-52 Strike—Ground; The Return; Reconstitution; The General Returns; To The Work