Articles Related to 101st Airborne Division Vietnam
Sorry About That by Dick Denne
August 11, 2015
Dick Denne is a man who can think for himself, an ability that caused him a lot of trouble. Halfway through Sorry About That: A Story from A Soldier's Heart (CreateSpace, 172 pp., $15.95 paper,…
Company of Heroes by Eric Poole
March 24, 2015
During the first five months of 1970, wherever the men of Bravo Company (3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division) operated, NVA troops seemed to be waiting for them. That was a time of what…
Surprised at Being Alive by Robert F. Curtis
February 16, 2015
It takes Robert F. Curtis forty-two pages to get to Vietnam in his memoir, Surprised at Being Alive: An Accidental Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam and Beyond (Casemate, 298 pp., $32.95 hardcover; $9.99 Kindle). But the…
The Crouching Beast by Frank Boccia
November 28, 2014
Forty–five years ago the 101st Airborne Division went into South Vietnam's A Shau Valley as part of Operation Apache Snow. The objective: to find, engage, and kill the 29th NVA Regiment on Hills 937, 900,…
100 Monkeyz by T.A. Drescher
March 10, 2014
T. A. Drescher served in the U. S. Army from 1967-69. That included a tour of duty in Vietnam with Company C of the 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, the “Ready Reactionary Force.” He received a chestful of…
West of Hue by James P. Brinker
February 27, 2014
James P. Brinker's West of Hue: Down the Yellow Brick Road (BookSurge, 354 pp., $20.99 paper, $2.99, Kindle) is a Vietnam War memoir that centers on the author's tour of duty with a recon platoon in…