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Days of Valor

An Inside Account of the Bloodiest Six Months of the Vietnam War

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Days of Valor

By: Robert Tonsetic
Narrated by: David Drummond
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Summary

During the War, Vietnam's coast had to be protected against Viet Cong ambushes and smuggling. The U.S. forces had destroyers, cruisers and gargantuan aircraft carriers, none suited for inshore patrol. This is the story of the Brown Water Navy, the garage-band flotilla assembled to do the job.

Douglas Branson has been to Vietnam several times, including trips in 1966, 1995 and 2011. The first time, he was a 22-year-old, Brown Water Navy lieutenant JG. Subsequent visits were as a consultant/tourist. Here, Branson recounts three of his Vietnam adventures with humor, detail and insight into the economic, political and gastronomic forces at work.

©2007 Robert L. Tonsetic (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Americas Military Modern Vietnam War War Witty US Air Force Air Force
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This was a well constructed book with a good balance between a definitive historical account perspective(s) and bringing the men and their daily thoughts and operation together, with a strategy overlay to the time within a prominent era of the conflict.
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