Bravo Troop
A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:17th Jun '22
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City. In that time, Bravo Troop saw 10 percent of its average field strength killed while inflicting much heavier losses on the enemy. This memoir vividly recounts those six months of intense armored cavalry combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting his fire direction techniques and the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.
“In recounting what he saw and did, Watson tells enlightening stories about large battles…Watson taught me more than I thought I knew about being a soldier in the Vietnam War. His recollection of an in-country 25th Infantry new-guy course is eye-opening and excellent. His flowing accounts of maneuvers in the field taught me new knowledge. I frequently referred to the book’s excellent map of Bravo’s operating area.”—VVA Veteran
ISBN: 9781476688466
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
Weight: 363g
278 pages