by Albracht, William; Wolf, Marvin; Galloway, Joseph L. (FRW)
USS Juneau, 60
Ut, Nick, 4
Utapao Royal Air Base, Thailand, 173–75, 177
Viet Cong, 2, 3, 12, 13, 15, 80, 123–25, 177, 221
Viet Minh, 12, 37, 86
Vietnam Memorial, Washington Mall, 2
Vietnamization, xi, 3, 5, 6, 126, 190, 259–61
Vinh Loc, Major General, 124, 125
VNAF (see South Vietnam Air Force)
War Between the States, 23
Ware, Major General Keith, 221, 222
Watson, WO1 Jerry, 275
Weapons, history of artillery, 23–25
Weather conditions, 66, 71–72, 132
Weaver, SP4 Billy, 220
Wells, CPT, 298
Whiteside, Captain Richard, 150, 257
Whitman, Walt, 84
Wilcox, SP5 Mike, 202–4, 207, 275
Wiles, SP4 Ronnie, 276
Wolf, Captain Marvin, xiv, 50
World War II, 31, 33, 54, 60, 74, 129
Wright, Colonel B. R., 204, 276
“Young British Soldier, The” (Kipling), 128
Zollner, First Lieutenant Maurice “Moe,” 174, 176–78, 195, 211, 214, 237, 243, 245, 246, 248, 268, 292, 299
1 Full disclosure: Coauthor Wolf cowrote General Ky’s wartime memoir, Buddha’s Child (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002), from which the above is drawn.
2 In March 1975, more than a year after US combat troops withdrew from Vietnam, the North Vietnamese took BMT. Surrounded by PAVN regiments backed by heavy artillery and Soviet-built tanks, the 23rd Division offered stiff resistance for a few days, then broke. In panic, retreating troops stripped off their uniforms, threw away their boots, and fled into the countryside. Two months later, 100,000 PAVN troops seized Saigon to complete their conquest and end the war.
3 My coauthor, then an Army combat correspondent in the First Air Cav’s Public Information Office, was involved in the preparation of a “backgrounder” press briefing that described these negotiations.
4 See Appendix.
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