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War Paint - The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam

By: Ballantine Books

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Military Novels (Ballantine Books)


Product Info

Title
War Paint - The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam
Publisher
Category
Author
Bill Goshen
Publish Year
2001
Pages
272
Dimensions
6x8.5x1"
NKG Part #
2148187862
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe, within hailing distance of the Vietcong central headquarters, a mile inside Cambodia, with its vast stockpiles of weapons and thousands of transient VC and NVA soldiers.

Recondo-qualified Bill Goshen was there and wrote the first account of these battle-hardened soldiers. As the eyes and ears of the Big Red One, the 1st Infantry, these hunter/killer teams of only six men inserted deep inside enemy territory had to survive by their wits or suffer the deadly consequences. Goshen himself barely escaped with his life in a virtual suicide mission that destroyed half his team.

His gripping narrative recaptures the raw courage and sacrifice of American soldiers fighting a savage war of survival: men of all colors, from all walks of life, warriors bonded by triumph and tragedy, by life and death. They served proudly in Vietnam, and their stories need to be told.