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A Ride in the Sun: Combat with a South Vietnamese Cavalry Troop in the Mekong Delta

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A Ride in the Sun: Combat with a South Vietnamese Cavalry Troop in the Mekong Delta

A Ride in the Sun: Combat with a South Vietnamese Cavalry Troop in the Mekong Delta by LTC (ret: USNG) Larry K Cole
English | 18 May 2017 | ASIN: B0711K4SGZ | 471 Pages | AZW3 | 4.97 MB

Two 75mm rounds hit next to the track. Then something struck me in the side that burned. Because of the heat, I had decided not to wear my flack vest. I looked down at my left side and realized I was bleeding. “Well Colonel,” I thought. “You did it! You sat here until Charlie got me.”

In A Ride in the Sun, Larry Cole follows the everyday life of a United States Army National Guard officer during the Vietnam war.

In his riveting true story, Cole shares:

Clear descriptions of the equipment, living conditions, combat action, and military lifestyle in the mid-1960s

Vivid accounts, thoughts, and feelings of a soldier in combat

Insights into how the American advisers and South Vietnamese soldiers lived

Discover a new the sacrifice of men who laid down their lives for their country.