Running Recon : A Photo Journey with SOG Special Ops along the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Frank Greco (2004, Hardcover)

Paladin Press

1581604262

9781581604269

43819379

Running Recon : a Photo Journey with Sog Special Ops Along the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Frank Greco

Hardcover

English

Military / Strategy, Artists, Architects, Photographers

2004

Biography & Autobiography, History

458 Pages

11in

8.5in

66.3 Oz

Ds558.4.G733 2004

Foreword • xi Introduction • 1 Chapter 1 Going to Vietnam • 7 Chapter 2 The Genesis of SOG and OP-35 • 13 Chapter 3 The Ho Chi Minh Trail • 25 Chapter 4 Command and Control Central • 41 Chapter 5 Across the Fence • 117 Chapter 6 Recon Team Colorado • 155 Chapter 7 The Photo Lab • 169 Chapter 8 Documented Missions • 185 Chapter 9 Bright Light Duty at Dak To • 203 Chapter 10 Hatchet Force • 221 Chapter 11 The Greatest Air Support in the World • 237 Chapter 12 Life on the Compound • 267 Chapter 13 Sapper Attack, April 1, 1970 • 299 Chapter 14 Back in the World . . . and Years Later • 307 Chapter 15 The Presidential Unit Citation • 323 Maps • 329 Kontum and CCC • CCC Locations and AO CCC Tri-Border AO • Dollar Lake • Mission Area Maps CCC and CCN • Leghorn • Dak To • Dak Pek Golfcourse • The Bra • Operation Tailwind • LZ Orange • Operation Halfback Chapter 16 The Wall • 343 Epilogue • 351 Appendix A Sampling of Declassified Weekly SOG Reports, 1967 • 355 Appendix B Reminiscences of Sgt. Joe Parnar, CCC Medic • 389 Appendix C Notebook Pages from Huey Pilot Capt. Vaughn "Bobby" Ross • 403 Appendix D FAC and the Green Beret • 411 Selected Bibliography • 413 Epigram O'Donnell Remembrance Poem • 419 Index • 421

2004

Trade

2004-558677

959.704/38

22

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