History of the Vietnam War 101

A couple more questions that were brought up. 1. What was the climate and terrain like when you arrived in Vietnam? I was in Lai Khe and it was flat with a lot of rubber trees. It was hot and humid. I don't think I ever stopped sweating at any time. 2. How did the climate and terrain affect your to...

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I got lucky and spent Christmas 68 on R&R in Sydney. Among best experiences ever. I've had some opportunities to go back but don't want to. It wouldn't be the same. As to number of deaths, one contributor the the fewer number of deaths is the improvements in medicine. Although I suspect the numb...

My thoughts were more along the lines of how bad daily life was for the grunts. it is not that our was good, but it is seems to me theirs was worse i.e supplies, food, medical care. As for the brutal stuff, I suspect it was more a case by case situation both in WWII and VN. I never heard of anybody ...

Compared to Band Of Brothers, it seemed a little too Hollywood for me which is to say nothing about the actual experiences of the WWII soldiers and Marines in the Pacific who I suspect had it a somewhat worse than we did in VN.

Dave If this was from you, it came to me as an email from Bill. ++++++++++++++++++ Jim, just looked at your question. our division base camp was in Kai Khe for my tour between Nov. '68 - Nov. '69. I was in the 1/26th, Co. "A" for my first 6 months and then Recon for my last 6 months. We sp...

The guest post above was from Jim (I forgot to sign in).

The misdated post is entitled "I need to Interview someone about the Vietnam War.'

Test. Twice I got an error trying to post.

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Bill -

Sometimes the dates change on the posts making them look current. Is this a bug or a setting?

Jim