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The lost battalion of Tet : breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue / Charles A. Krohn.
LIBRA DS558.4 .K76 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krohn, Charles A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Regimental histories--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- United States. Army. Cavalry Division, 1st. Battalion, 2nd--History.
- United States.
- United States. Army. Cavalry Division, 1st.
- Hue, Battle of, Huế, Vietnam, 1968.
- Tet Offensive, 1968.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this revised paperback edition of The Lost Battalion: Controversy and Casualties in the Battle of Hue (1993) brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support.
- Contents:
- Preface: The Battle of Hue: A Retrospective View and a Few Surprises ix
- Chapter 1 America's Best 3
- Chapter 2 Cast of the Past 10
- Chapter 3 Curtain Raiser 13
- Chapter 4 Reasonable Worries 19
- Chapter 5 Operation Rawhide 22
- Chapter 6 Rehearsing the Gladiators 25
- Chapter 7 The Death Battalion 30
- Chapter 8 Sweet Takes Charge 38
- Chapter 9 Historical Moment 41
- Chapter 10 Hue's Burning 44
- Chapter 11 Getting the Word at Camp Evans 50
- Chapter 12 From Camp Evans to PK-17 53
- Chapter 13 Dead in Our Tracks 59
- Chapter 14 Attack Now 63
- Chapter 15 Scudder, A Miracle Man 71
- Chapter 16 Cordite Stinks 76
- Chapter 17 Artillery Fiasco 79
- Chapter 18 Take a Break, Death Will Wait 84
- Chapter 19 Day Two: Hell's Last Circle 87
- Chapter 20 Saving the Living, Leaving the Dead 93
- Chapter 21 Leaving TFP: Our Only Hope 99
- Chapter 22 Hugging Jeff 104
- Chapter 23 Helvey's Raiders 110
- Chapter 24 TFP 115
- Chapter 25 Heroes Not Forgotten 120
- Chapter 26 After the Battle Is Over 122
- Chapter 27 Forgotten Favor Repaid 129
- Chapter 28 View from the Other Side 131
- Chapter 29 Who Won? Who Lost? 134
- Chapter 30 We'll Never Know 136
- Chapter 31 Ambiguous Facts 139
- Chapter 32 Tet, Meet Desert Storm 144
- Chapter 33 Pascagoula Flashback 148
- Appendix 1 Infantry Battalion Organization 154
- Appendix 2 Where Are They Now? 155
- Appendix 3 The Presidential Unit Citation 156
- Appendix 4 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry Killed in Action 158
- Appendix 5 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry Supporting Units Killed in Action 161
- Appendix 6 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry Distinguished Service Cross 162.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: The lost battalion. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781591144342
- 1591144345
- OCLC:
- 172521777
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