The boys of '67 Charlie Company's war in Vietnam

In the spring of 1966, the war was still popular and the draftees of Charlie Company saw their service as a rite of passage. But by December 1967, when the company rotated home, only 30 men were not casualties--and they were among the first vets of the war to be spit on and harassed by war protestor...

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Main Author: Wiest, Andrew A.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Long Island City, NY : Osprey Pub., 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Meeting Charlie
  • The need for Charlie
  • Losing the best we had
  • Who was Charlie?
  • Training
  • To Vietnam and into the Rung Sat
  • Into battle
  • The day everything changed
  • The steady drumbeat of war
  • Charlie transformed, Battlefield Coda, and the Freedom Bird
  • Home from war
  • The men of Charlie Company.