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"The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there."— Army Times In 1967 Frederick Downs arrived in Vietnam as a green but determined twenty-three-year-old infantry lieutenant. In the months of brutal combat to follow, Downs was to face the most lethal and... read more
First Sentence
At 2330 hours the Continental "Big Bird with the Golden Tail" DC-8 dropped through the night sky into the landing pattern over the black landscape of Vietnam.
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- Frederick Downs (Author)
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