War Paint
The 1st Infantry Division's LRP/Ranger Company in Fierce Combat in Vietnam
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4.1 • 104 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
The men who served with in the 1st Infantry Division with F company, 52nd Infantry, (LRP) later redesignated as Company I, 75th Infantry (Ranger) --engaged in some of the fiercest, bloodiest fighting during the Vietnam War, suffering a greater relative aggregate of casualties that any other LRRP/LRP/ Ranger company. Their base was Lai Khe, within hailing distance of the Vietcong central headquarters, a mile inside Cambodia, with its vast stockpiles of weapons and thousands of transient VC and NVA soldiers.
Recondo-qualified Bill Goshen was there, and has written the first account of these battle-hardened soldiers. As the eyes and ears of the Big Red One, the 1st Infantry, these hunter/killer teams of only six men instered deep inside enemy territory had to survive by their wits, or suffer the deadly consequences. Goshen himself barely escaped with his life in a virtual suicide mission that destroyed half his team.
His gripping narrative recaptures the raw courage and sacrifice of American soldiers fighting a savage war of survival: men of all colors, from all walks of life, warriors bonded by triumph and tragedy, by life and death. They served proudly in Vietnam, and their stories need to be told.
Customer Reviews
War Paint
I learned things reading this book that I did not know then and was one of the two platoon leaders that served under Captain Hal London that fateful night Lt Mel Adams also served with me then as did Lt Tommy Hayes who was with us briefly for one LRRP mission Tommy was later KIA after taking command of the arp platoon of D Troop 1/4 CAV I was the platoon leader of the LRRP/ARP of D Troop 1/4 CAV which was expanded to become the Big Red One LRRP Company My name is Bill Francisco Both Mel and I became Ranger Instructors after serving as LRRPs This book describes some of our finest men and there many more stories which should be told of our other heroes Captain London was as gutsy as they come and taught us well
War paint
Very good book. Well written and actual of what our guys went through over there. Very different than some of the books I have read.