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Vietnam combat : firefights and writing history / by Robin Bartlett

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Bartlett, Robin
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Firefights and writing history
Published
Haverford, PA ; Oxford : Casemate Pub., 2023.
Physical Description
xxii, 264 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plates ; 24 cm

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Promoted to 1st lieutenant at the height of the war, Robin Bartlett, just 22 years old, assumed leadership of the 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division in May 1968. Over the next seven months, Bartlett would lead his platoon of 30 men on helicopter combat assaults, ambushes and search-and-destroy missions along the DMZ in I Corps.--BOOK JACKET
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9781636242422 (hardback)
1636242421 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliography (pages [251]-252) and index.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Robin Bartlett grew up in a three-generation military family but didn't choose that path for himself. As the Vietnam War escalated he joined his college's ROTC program and upon graduation as a Distinguished Military Graduate he volunteered for Infantry, Airborne, and Ranger training, and assignment to the 82d Airborne Division. In Vietnam he assumed leadership of the 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division in May 1968.--BOOK JACKET
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Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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