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    Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970
    Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970
    Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970
    Audiobook6 hours

    Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970

    Written by Larry Chambers

    Narrated by Joe Barrett

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    Featuring a new introduction by the author about his return to Vietnam, his reflections on the war, and his humanitarian work in Cambodia.

    "The enemy had a single purpose: kill me and my teammates."

    Larry Chambers was still new to Vietnam in early 1969 when the LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division became L Company, 75th (Rangers). But his unit's mission stayed the same: act as the eyes and ears of the 101st deep in the dreaded A Shau Valley-where the NVA ruled.

    Relentless thick fog frequently made fighter bombers useless in the A Shau, and the enemy had furnished the nearby mountaintops with antiaircraft machine guns to protect the massive trail network that snaked through it. So, outgunned, outmanned, and unsupported, the teams of L Company executed hundreds of courageous missions. Now, in this powerful personal record, Larry Chambers recaptures the experience of the war's most brutal on-the-job training, where the slightest noise or smallest error could bring sudden-and certain-death . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 18, 2020
    ISBN9781541440081
    Death in the A Shau Valley: L Company LRRPs in Vietnam, 1969-1970

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    • 5/5
      Great story about great American fighting men in a difficult situation. It’s good that these events are chronicled for history. These guys are like the MACV SOG teams but operated in S. Vietnam obviously with the same dangerous missions. I am hesitant to
      Mention this but I almost stopped listening at the opening where the author expresses his feelings about the bombing of Cambodia. He has been there and I haven’t but if you read SOG by John Plaster and other accounts of SOG people who fought and called in Cambodia, you get a different perspective. The enemy was there so that’s where we had to go to fight. I read a memoir of a Viet Cong political Operative who confessed to hiding out in ambrosia and had been to the so called COSVN. Otherwise this is a fantastic book.

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    • 5/5
      A great book, highly recommended to those who have served in Spec Ops
    • 5/5
      Quite a good book. I enjoyed the detail given in the descriptions