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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 42 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by John McLain. |
| Summary |
By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of 1st Marine Division. The Marines of 1st RECON Bn operated in teams of six or seven men. Heavily armed, the teams fought a multitude of bitter engagements with a numerically superior and increasingly aggressive enemy. Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, 1st RECON Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader. In powerful, graphic prose, he chronicles his experience as a patrol leader in myriad combat situations-from hasty ambush to emergency extraction to prisoner snatch to combined-arms ambush... |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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United States. Marine Corps. Recon Battalion, 1st -- History.
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Hodgins, Michael C.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Reconnaissance operations, American.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
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Mclain, John.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977329660 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977329667 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12097284 |
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