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Need Help Finding a Book Title
Gang:
This is NOT an aviation book (well if you consider choppers, it MIGHT be); I'm looking for a non fiction book title: I had read it YEARS ago; The author was a US Army Captain assigned to a 'hard luck' infantry company in the 1st Air Car, pre-Tet Offensive, stationed somewhere in the mountains around Bong Son. The author also recounted bits of his earlier tour advising the ARVN. Anyway, he does a great job leading his company to payback in Bong Son before being transferred up north near Khe Sanh to oppose the NVA up there. He ended the book getting a chunk of his tibia shot out of his leg (the book interweaves his unpleasant stay in hospital); The ONLY thing I recall from the title was the word "SIx" being in it (I guess part of his callsign) and possibly remembering the author made it to his Colonelcy before recently passing away in his eighties Does it ring any bells with anybody? Thanks ahead of time |
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Re: Need Help Finding a Book Title
Maybe this:
https://www.amazon.com/Chickenhawk-R.../dp/B000O5TQYM You may be remembering "six" from a book titled Check Six. |
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Re: Need Help Finding a Book Title
No he's DEFINITELY a Grunt Captain in charge of a company for the 1st Cav, and he did stay in the service and reached LTC even after having a couple of inches shot out of his tibia. And "Six" was definitely his radio callsign--'Six' usually indicates a unit commander.
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Re: Need Help Finding a Book Title
Based on Six / 6 - here are three suggestions
Comanche Six: Company Commander in Vietnam (1991) by James L. Estep Victor 6: The Saga of One of Vietnam's Most Highly Decorated Officer in Vietnam (1990) by David Christian Lima-Six: A Marine Company Commander in Vietnam (1989) by Col. R.D. Camp |
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