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Kirshen Richard H. |
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Vietnam war river patrol : a U.S. gunboat captain returns to the Mekong Delta / / Richard H. Kirshen |
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Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Naval operations, American |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Riverine operations, American |
Mekong River Delta (Vietnam and Cambodia) Description and travel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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First encounter -- Go back? -- Flying follies -- Hong Kong to Saigon -- How the Navy got me to Vietnam -- Japan and overt sexuality -- Subic Bay, diving and Coronado -- Prep-work for war -- Arrival -- How the hell had I ended up in this mess anyway? -- Touring Saigon -- My initial introduction to Saigon -- Eating -- Cu Chi, Mr. Nam and the tunnels -- Operation Giant Slingshot -- The post office and the Angkor -- Nha Be -- River jobs -- The mekong -- The Eskimo -- Visits along the river -- Fish farms and wiping out a village -- Cambodia and night travel -- Phnom Penh and the killing fields -- Our prisoner -- The boat show -- New life -- Visiting a Cambodian village -- Again with the darkness and my night on the river -- The fighting monks -- Zippo boats and body counts -- The afternoon trip without me -- R & R -- Bus rides and ox carts -- On watch -- Busses, goat roads and Angkor Thom -- Life on the river and getting shot -- The hotel and New Year's Eve -- Cam Ranh Bay -- Angkor Wat and the citadel of women -- Bare sole -- Hanging out in town -- The incidents -- Bangkok and the end of the trips -- Entertainment -- War? -- Acronyms and foreign words. |
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"As a 20-year-old gunboat captain and U.S. Navy diver in the Mekong Delta, the author was responsible for both the vessel and its crew. Forty years after the war, he returned as a tourist. This journal records his |
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impressions of the Delta as seen first from a river patrol boat, then from a luxury cruise ship"-- |
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