Part Two
II-B-4. General Publications - Miscellaneous: POW and MIA
Blakey, Scott. Prisoner at War: The Survival of Commander
Richard A. Stratton. New York: Doubleday, 1978.
Brace, Ernest C. A Code to Keep: The True Story of America's
Longest-held Civilian Prisoner of War in Vietnam. New York:
St. Martin's, 1988.
Clarke, Douglas L. The Missing Man: Politics and the MIA.
National Defense University Press, 1979.
The author is or was a US Navy Captain.
Denton, Jeremiah A., with Ed Brandt,. When Hell was in Session.
New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976.
Denton, a Navy pilot shot down in 1965 and held
prisoner until 1973, later became a U.S. Senator.
Doyle, Robert C. Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the
American POW Narrative. Lawrence: University Press of
Kansas.
Not just Vietnam.
Dramesi, John A. Code of Honor. New York: Norton, 1975.
Dramesi was a USAF pilot shot down in 1967, who twice
escaped and was recaptured.
Franklin, H. Bruce. M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. Brooklyn,
NY: Lawrence Hill, 1992.
A bit strident in his antiwar sentiments, and sometimes
careless with facts on peripheral issues, Franklin is still
convincing on his central argument: that the idea of
Americans still being held prisoner in Indochina after 1973
is myth.
Grant, Zalin. Survivors. New York: Norton, 1975. New York:
Berkley, 1985, 324 pp.; New York: Da Capo, 1994.
Nine Americans caputured by enemy forces January to
March 1968, eight in I Corps and one in Laos, held until
1973.
Groom, Winston & Duncan Spencer,. Conversations with the Enemy:
The Story of PFC Robert Garwood.
Garwood was captured in September 1965; after his
return to the US in 1979 he was accused of having
collaborated with the enemy.
Gruner, Elliott. Prisoners of Culture: Representing the Vietnam
P.O.W. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Gruner is a Special Forces officer on the faculty of
USMA West Point. He writes about images and myths of POWs.
Guarino, Larry. A POW's Story: 2801 Days in Hanoi. New York:
Ivy Books, 1990.
A USAF pilot who was shot down in June 1965.
Hefley, James and Marti. No Time for Tombstones: Life and Death
in the Vietnamese Jungle. Harrisburg, PA: Christians
Publications, 1974.
About two missionaries and a USAID worker who were
captured in the Central Highlands early 1968. Only the
USAID worker survived.
Howes, Craig. Voices of the Vietnam POWs: Witnesses to their
Fight. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hubbell, John G. P.O.W.: A Definitive History of the American
Prisoner-of-War Experience in Vietnam, 1964-1973.
McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Jensen-Stevenson, Monika & William H. Stevenson. Kiss the Boys
Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed its own POWs in
Vietnam. New York(?): Dutton, 1990.
The thesis seems implausible.
Keating, Susan K. Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth
in America. New York: Random House, 1994.
McConnell, Malcolm. Inside Hanoi's Secret Archives: Solving the
MIA Mystery. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Said to have been based on four years of research done
by Theodore Schweitzer in Vietnam.
McDaniel, Malcolm. Yet Another Voice. New York: Hawthorn, 1975.
114 pp.
A black USAF officer shot down over North Vietnam in
1966.
Mulligan, Malcolm. The Hanoi Commitment. Virginia Beach, VA:
RIF Marketing, 1981.
Captain Mulligan, a Navy pilot, was shot down over
North Vietnam in March 1966.
Plumb, Charlie. I'm No Hero: A POW Story as told to Glen DeWerf.
Independence Press, 1973.
Risner, Robinson . The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a
Prisoner of the North Vietnamese. New York: Random House,
1973.
Rowan, Stephen A. They Wouldn't Let Us Die: THe Prisoners of War
Tell Their Story. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David
Publishers, 1973. 252 pp.
Rowe, Major James N. Five Years to Freedom. Boston: Little,
Brown, 1971.
The author, a member of the Special Forces, escaped
after five years as a POW.
Rutledge, Howard & Phyllis. In the Presence of Mine Enemies:
1965-1973. Revell, 1973.
Schwinn, Monika, and Bernhard Diehl. We Came to Help. New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Two German nurses who were captured by the Viet Cong
and ended up being treated as POWs.
Smith, George E. P.O.W.: Two Years with the Vietcong. Berkeley:
Ramparts Press, 1971.
Reputed to be more favorable to the Communists than is
usual in POW memoirs.
Stern, Lewis M. Imprisoned or Missing in Vietnam: Policies of
the Vietnamese Government Toward Captured and Detained
United States Soldiers 1969-1994. Jefferson, NC: McFarland,
1995 (forthcoming).
II-B-5. General Publications - Miscellaneous: Collections:
Primarily Documents
Cameron, Allan W., ed.. Vietnam Crisis: A Documentary History.
2 vols. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Cole, Allan B., ed. Conflict in Indo-China and International
Repercussions: A Documentary History, 1945-1955. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1956.
Gettleman, Marvin E., ed. Viet Nam: History, Documents, and
Opinions on a Major World Crisis. Fawcett, 1965.
A good collection for its time; now somewhat dated.
Gettleman, Marvin, H. Bruce Franklin, Jane Franklin, and Marilyn
Young, eds. Vietnam and America: A Documented History. New
York: Grove Press, 1985.
Longer and substantially different from Gettleman's old
collection, though there is some overlap in the materials.
Katsiaficas, George N., ed. Vietnam Documents: American and
Vietnamese Views of the War. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.
304 pp.
Mooney, James W. and Thomas R. West, eds.,. Vietnam: A Hitory
and Anthology. St. James, NY: Brandywine Press, 1994. 303
pp.
Porter, Gareth. Vietnam: The Definitive Documentary of Human
Decisions. 2 vols. Stanfordvill, NY: E.M. Coleman, 1979.
Pratt, John Clark. Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War
Years, 1941-1982. New York: Penguin, 1984. x, 706 pp.
II-B-6. General Publications - Miscellaneous: Collections: Not
Primarily Documents
Allen, Douglas and Ngo Vinh Long, eds. Coming to Terms:
Indochina, the United States, and the War. Boulder, CO:
Westview, 1991.
Capps, Walter. The Vietnam Reader. New York: Routledge.
A diversity of individual viewpoints.
Charlton, Michael, and Anthony Moncrieff,. Many Reasons Why: The
American Involvement in Vietnam. New York: Hill and Wang,
1978.
The second printing (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989) has
a new foreword by George Herring. Mainly a collection of
interviews with high-ranking Americans.
Errington, Elizabeth J., and B.J.C. McKercher, eds.,. The
Vietnam War as History. New York: Praeger, 1990.
A good collection; note essays on Laos and on the role
of Canada.
Grinter, Lawrence E., and Peter M. Dunn, eds. The American War
in Vietnam: Lessons, Legacies, and Implications for Future
Conflicts. New York: Greenwood, 1987.
A collection of papers from a 1986 conference.
Head, William, and Lawrence E. Grinter, eds. Looking Back on the
Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat,
and Legacies. Westport: Praeger, 1993.
Papers from a 1991 conference.
Kimball, Jeffrey P., ed. To Reason Why: The Debate About the
Causes of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War. McGraw-Hill,
1990.
McMahon, Robert J. Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam
War. 2d ed. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1995. 576 pp. estimated.
A mixture of documents and essays, intended as a text.
Matthews, Lloyd J. & Dale E. Brown, eds. Assessing the Vietnam
War. Pergamon-Brassey, 1987.
Material comes from the Journal of the U.S. Army War
College.
Moore, John Norton, ed. The Vietnam Debate. Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1990.
Myers, Thomas, ed. Walking Point: American Narratives of
Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Page, Tim, and John Pimlott, eds.,. Nam: The Vietnam Experience,
1965-75. Mallard Press. 649 pp.
extensively illustrated. $39.98. Articles previously
published in an English magazine.
Rowe, John Carlos, and Richard Berg, eds. The Vietnam War and
American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, (hb
1991?), pb 1992.
Sevy, Grace, ed. The American Experience in Vietnam: A Reader.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
A collection of articles, previously published in
various places, mostly written after the war. Robert
Elegant's diatribe against the press may be interesting, if
not exactly to be recommended.
Shafer, D. Michael, ed. The Legacy: The Vietnam War in the
American Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990
Showalter, Dennis E. and John G. Albert, eds. An American
Dilemma: Vietnam, 1964-1973. Chicago: Imprint Publications,
1993.
Papers apparently from a symposium at the US Air Force
Academy.
Takashi Shiraishi and Motoo Furuta, eds. Indochina in the 1940s
and 1950s. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1992.
196 pp.
Essays apparently all translated from the Japanese.
Veninga, James F. and Harry A. Wilmer, eds.,. Vietnam in
Remission. Texas A&M University Press.
Werner, Jayne and David Hunt, eds.,. The American War in
Vietnam. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1993. 125
pp.
Collection of papers by scholars from the United States
presented at a conference in Hanoi in 1988.
Werner, Jayne, and Luu Doan Huynh, eds., The Vietnam War:
Vietnamese and American Perspectives. Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, 1993 (pb 1994).
Collection of papers from a 1990 conference that
brought together Americans, mainly scholars, with senior
Vietnamese.
II-B-7. General Publications - Miscellaneous: Bibliographic
Burns, Lester H., and Richard D. Burns. America and the
Indochina Wars, 1945-1990: A Bibliographical Guide.
Claremont, CA: Regina, 1992. 286 pp.
Burns, Richard D., and Milton Leitenberg. The Wars in Vietnam,
Cambodia and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide. Santa
Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1984.
Cotter, Michael. Vietnam, a Guide to Reference Sources. Boston:
G.K. Hall, 1977.
Desire, Michel. La Campagne d'Indochine (1945-1954):
Bibliographie. (multiple volumes; details of division into
volumes unclear). Chateau de Vincennes: Service Historique,
Etat-major de l'Armee de Terre, 1976-1977.
Leitenberg, Milton and Richard D. Burns. The Vietnam Conflict:
Its Geographical Dimensions, Political Traumas, & Military
Developments. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1973.
Olson, James S., ed. The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature
and Research. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. xii, 516 pp.
Phan Thien Chau. Vietnamese Communism: A Research Bibliography.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Ruscio, Alain. La premiere guerre d'Indochine (1945-1954):
bibliographie. Paris, 1987.
Sugnet, Christopher L. and John T. Hickey, with Robert Crispino.
Vietnam War Bibliography: Selected from Cornell University's
Echols Collection. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983.
The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
Wittman, Sandra M. Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the
Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G.K. Hall,
1989.
Gives brief descriptions of most items. Mostly covers
fiction, poetry, etc., but the section titled "Personal
Narratives/ Biographies", 67pp., 291 items, includes a wide
range of non-fiction, not just personal narratives and
biographies.
II-B-8. General Publications - Miscellaneous: Other Reference
Works
Bowman, John S., ed. The Vietnam War: An Almanac. Cleveland:
World Almanac Publications, 1985.
Paperback edition titled `The World Almanac of the
Vietnam War. New York: World Almanac (Pharos Books). 1986.
512 pp. The bulk of the volume, 344 pp., is a detailed
chronology.
Clark, Gregory R. Words of the Vietnam War: The Slang, Jargon,
Abbreviations, Acronyms, Nomenclature, Nicknames,
Pseudonyms, Slogans, Specs, Euphemisms, Double-talk, Chants,
and Names and Places of the Era of United States Involvement
in Vietnam. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.
Duiker, William J. Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Metuchen,
NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989. xiv, 269 pp.
Nguyen Q. Thang and Nguyen Ba The. Tu dien nhan vat lich su Viet
nam (Biographical Dictionary of Vietnamese History). Ho Chi
Minh City: Nha Xuat Ban Khoa Hoc Xa Hoi, 1991. 1096 pp.
Olson, James S., ed. Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York:
Greenwood, 1988. 593 pp.
Reinberg, Linda. In the Field: The Language of the Vietnam War.
New York: Facts on File, 1991.
Stanton, Shelby L. Vietnam Order of Battle. Foreword by Gen.
William C. Westmoreland. New York: Exeter Books (and
perhaps also Galahad Books, and/or Atlantic Monthly Press?),
1986. 396 pp
A vital reference work listing US units, with dates and
locations of Vietnam service, etc.
Stein, Jeff. The Vietnam Fact Book.
The guy has too many of his "facts" wrong.
Summers, Col. Harry G., Jr. The Vietnam War Almanac. New York:
Facts on File, 1985.
II-B-9: General Publications - Miscellaneous: Literature, Film,
etc.
Adair, Gilbert. Vietnam on Film: From the Green Berets to
Apocalypse Now. New York: Proteus, 1981.
Anderegg, Michael, ed. Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and
Television. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991
Auster, Albert and Leonard Quart. How the War was Remembered:
Hollywood and Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1988.
Beidler, Philip. Re-writing America: Vietnam Authors in their
Generation. Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1991?).
Dittmar, Linda and Gene Michaud, eds. From Hanoi to Hollywood:
The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1990.
Ehrhart, W. D. ed. Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the
Vietnam War. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
Ehrhart, W. D. ed. Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the
Vietnam War. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
Gilman, Owen W. and Lorrie Smith, eds. America Rediscovered:
Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War.
New York: Garland, 1990.
Gilman, Owen W. Vietnam and the Southern Imagination. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
Gotera, Vince. Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
Literary criticism, rather than an anthology.
Hellmann, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1986. 241 pp.
Jason, Philip K., ed. Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to
Vietnam War Literature. Iowa City: University of Iowa
Press, 1991.
Lomperis, Timothy J. Reading the Wind: The Literature of the
Vietnam War. With bibliographic commentary by John Clark
Pratt. Duke University Press.
McDonald, Walter. A Band of Brothers: Stories from Vietnam.
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
Malo, Jean-Jacques and Tony Williams, eds. Vietnam War Films.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, (1994?). 567 pp.
Detailed information on 683 films and television
programs, produced not just in the US but in Vietnam and
other countries.
Melling, Philip H. Vietnam in American Literature. Boston:
Twayne Publishers, 1990.
Newman, John with Ann Hilfinger. Vietnam War Literature: An
Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works about Americans
Fighting in Vietnam. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1988.
Palmer, William J. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, (1994?). 335 pp.
Rottmann, Larry. Voices from the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Poetry of
America and Vietnam, 1965-1993. Desert Springs, CA: Event
Horizon Publishers, (forthcoming).
Schroeder, Eric James. Vietnam, We've All Been There: Interviews
with American Writers. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992. 240 pp.
Searle, William J. ed. Search and Clear. Bowling Green:
University Popular Press. 215 pp.
Academic analysis of literature, films, etc., dealing
with Vietnam.
II-B-10: General Publications - Miscellaneous: Women and Medical
Personnel
Albert, Richard O. Bac-Si My: In the Year of the Dog.
The author worked as a medical doctor at Phong Dinh
Province Hospital, in Can Tho.
Bancoff, Carl. A Forgotten Man. pb. New York: S.P.I. Books,
1992.
A doctor in Vietnam.
Barker, Dan A. Warrior of the Heart. Burning Cities Press,
1992.
Bartecchi, Carl E., M.D. Soc Trang: A Vietnamese Odyssey. Rocky
Mountain Writer's Guild, 1980.
An Army flight surgeon who was at Soc Trang 1965-66.
Brass, Alister. Bleeding Earth: A Doctor Looks at Vietnam.
Melbourne: Heinemann, 1968.
By an Australian doctor.
Butler, Deborah A. American Women Writers on Vietnam: Unheard
Voices: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. New York:
Garland, 1990.
Byerly, Ltc. Wesley G. Trung Ta Bac Si. Baltimore: Gateway
Press, 1986.
Byerly, a medical officer in the US Army Reserve,
volunteered to serve a tour (April 1969 to March 1970) in
Vietnam. The book consists mostly of entries from his
diary.
Deardorff, Barbara, et. al. Another Kind of War Story: Army
Nurses Look Back to Vietnam. Lebanon, PA(?): AKOWS(?),
1993(?). Forthcoming: privately printed
Evans, Barbara. Caduceus in Saigon: A Medical Mission to South
Vietnam. London: Hutchinson, 1968. 210 pp.
A British medical mission that went to Vietnam in 1966.
Ford, Herbert. No Guns on their Shoulders. Nashville: Southern
Publishing Association, 1968. 144 pp.
Seventh Day Adventist medics in Vietnam.
Freedman, Dan and Jacqueline Rhoads, eds. Nurses in Vietnam: The
Forgotten Veterans. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987.
xiii, 164 pp
Gloeckner, Fred. A Civilian Doctor in Vietnam. Philadelphia:
Winchell, 1972. 123 pp.
Author was apparently in Vietnam only briefly, with
Project Vietnam.
Hall, Mike. The Medic and the Mama-san. (Cortland, NY?):
Hawkeye, (1994?).
Hall was a medic and operating room technician at the
36th Evac, in Vung Tau, 1968-1969. He married a Vietnamese.
Hampton, Lynn. The Fighting Strength: Memoirs of a Combat Nurse
in Vietnam. Canton, OH: Daring Books, 1990; pb New York:
Warner, 1992.
Hardaway, Robert M., ed. Care of the Wounded in Vietnam.
Manhattan, KS: 1988.
Hasselblad, Marva with Dorothy Brandon. Lucky-Lucky: A Nurse's
Story of Life at a Hospital in Vietnam. Evans, 1966.
The author worked at a Mennonite hospital in Nhatrang.
Holley, Dr. Byron E. Vietnam 1968-1969: A Battalion Surgeon's
Journal. New York: Ivy, 1993.
Hovis, Lieutenant Commander Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A
Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964. Annapolis: Naval
Institute Press, 1992.
Kelsh, James Michael. Triage: The Gathering Place. New York:
Carlton, 1977. 122 pp.
Kelsh was an Army doctor in Vietnam.
Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of
American Women in Vietnam, 1966-75. Boston: Little Brown,
1987.
Norman, Elizabeth M. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military
Nurses who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Parrish, John A., M.D. 12, 20 & 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam.
New York: Bantam, 1986 (original 1972).
Roberts, Craig. Combat Medic - Vietnam. New York: Pocket Books,
1991.
Based on interviews and documentary research. Note that
while Roberts served in combat units he did not do so as a
medic, and that some dialog is invented.
Rosenberger, Mary Sue. Harmless as Doves: Witnessing for Peace
in Vietnam. Eglin, IL: Brethren Press, 1988. 188 pp.
By a volunteer nurse who worked in a hospital in Nha
Trang from early 1966 to late 1967.
Smith, Winnie. American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines
with an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: Morrow, 1992. 352
pp.
Smith served Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1967 in military
hospitals in Saigon and Long Binh.
Terry, Susan. House of Love: Life in a Vietnamese Hospital.
Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1967. London: Newnes, 1967. 248
pp.
By a Roman Catholic nurse, part of an Australian
medical team sent to work in a hospital in Long Xuyen in
1964.
Turpin, James W. Vietnam Doctor: The Story of Project Concern.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.
Van Devanter, Lynda. Home Before Morning. New York: Warner,
1984.
Lynda Van Devanter was a U.S. Army nurse whose tour in
Vietnam, June 1969 to June 1970, was served mostly at the
71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku province. A lot of heavy
fighting, casualties. The account seems very good, but the
resemblance to "M*A*S*H" is so strong as to inspire faint
suspicions.
Van Devanter, Lynda and Joan A. Furey, eds. Visions of War,
Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War. New
York: Warner Books, 1991.
Walker, Keith. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty Six
American Women who Served in Vietnam. New York: Ballantine.
II-B-11. General Publications - Miscellaneous: Stress.
Camp, Norman, Robert H. Stretch, and William C. Marshall.
Stress, Strain, and Vietnam: An Annotated Bibliography of
Two Decades of Psychiatric and Social Sciences Literature
Reflecting the Effect of the War on the American Soldier.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 334 pp.
Kulka, Richard A., William E. Schlenger, John A. Fairbank,
Richard L. Hough, B. Kathleen Jordan, Charles R. Marmar, &
Daniel S. Weiss. Trauma and the Vietnam War Generation:
Report of Findings from the National Vietnam Veterans
Readjustment Study. 2 vols. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1990.
The first volume is text, the second is data. A very
impressive study, done by the Research Triangle Institute
under a congressional mandate. This is a private sector
reprint; rumor has it that the original government
publication was given very little distribution because its
conclusionthe reality of PTSD was not welcomed by the
government.
Lindy, Jacob D. with Bonnie L. Green et. al. Vietnam: A
Casebook. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1988.
Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the
Undoing of Character. New York: Atheneum, 1994. 246pp.
Williams, Tom. ed. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Handbook
for Clinicians. Cincinnati, OH: Disabled American Veterans,
1987. 302 pp.
Wilson, John P., Zev Harel, and Boaz Kahana, eds. Human
Adaptation to Extreme Stress: From the Holocaust to Vietnam.
New York: Plenum, 1988.
Zaczek, Ron. Farewell Darkness: A Veteran's Triumph over Combat
Trauma. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994. 376 pp.
A Marine crewchief in medevac and gunship helicopters,
1966-68. Diagnosed with PTSD 1981.
II-B-12. General Publications - Miscellaneous: Naval.
Altheide, David L. and John M. Johnson. "Bureaucratic
Propaganda: The Case of Battle Efficiency Reports". in
Robert Jackall, ed. Propaganda. pp. 229-328(?) New York:
New York University Press, 1995.
Procedure by which reports of naval gunfire support
missions by a US destroyer in Vietnam were "gundecked".
Carlin, Mike. Trial: Ordeal of the USS Enterprise. (West Grove,
PA?): Tuscarora, (1993?). 256 pp.
About a disastrous series of munitions explosions on
the deck of the carrier, which killed 28 men on January 14,
1969. Carlin was a flight-deck fuels crew leader.
Croizat, Col. Victor J. The Brown Water Navy: The River and
Coastal War in Indo-China and Vietnam, 1948-1972. Dorset,
UK: Blandford Press. 1984. 160 pp.
Cutler, Lcdr. Thomas J. Brown Water, Black Berets: Coastal and
Riverine Warfare in Vietnam. Annapolis: Naval Institute
Press, 1988.
Gregory, Barry. Vietnam Coastal and Riverine Forces Handbook.
Hart, Kerry S. "As If We Had Never Been There." Proceedings,
January 1991, pp. 52-56.
USS Preble, DLG-15, doing shore bombardment, SAR, air
control, rice destruction off NVN and northern SVN, August
1972 to January 1973.
Schreadley, CDR R. L. From the Rivers to the Sea: The U.S. Navy
in Vietnam. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992.
Sheppard, Don. Riverine: A Brown-Water Sailor in the Delta,
1967. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1992.
Uhlig, Frank, Jr., ed. Vietnam: The Naval Story. Annapolis:
Naval Institute Press, 1986.
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