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Green Berets in the vanguard : inside Special Forces, 1953-1963 / Chalmers Archer, Jr.
LIBRA U53.A73 A3 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Archer, Chalmers, 1928-
- Series:
- Naval Institute special warfare series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archer, Chalmers, 1928-.
- Archer, Chalmers.
- United States. Army. Special Forces--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Special Forces.
- African American soldiers--Biography.
- African American soldiers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 139 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- An uplifting and sometimes harrowing memoir of the early years of the U.S. Army's special forces by an African American in the first unit in Vietnam.
- Contents:
- 1 Assigned to Special Forces, Airborne 1
- 2 Hawaii, 1956: Prelude to Southeast Asia 26
- 3 Thailand, 1956 35
- 4 Taiwan, 1957 57
- 5 Vietnam, 1957 66
- 6 Okinawa, 1958 79
- 7 Laos, 1959: Mission Hotfoot 88
- 8 Laos, 1961: Mission White Star 114.
- ISBN:
- 1557500231
- OCLC:
- 45195621
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