Diary of an Airborne Ranger : A Lrrp
Diary of an Airborne Ranger : A Lrrp

Diary of an Airborne Ranger : A Lrrp's Year in the Combat Zone by Frank Johnson
Diary of an Airborne Ranger : A Lrrp's Year in the Combat Zone
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Author: Frank Johnson
Number of Pages: 255 pages
Published Date: 02 Mar 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780804118804
File Name: diary.of.an.airborne.ranger.a.lrrp's.year.in.the.combat.zone.pdf
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Perhaps the most accurate story of LRRPs at war ever to appear in print! When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was nineteen, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others--but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) unit, and he kept a secret diary, a practice forbidden by the military to protect the security of LRRP operations. Now, more than three decades later, those hastily written pages offer a rare look at the daily operations of one of the most courageous units that waged war in Vietnam. Johnson served in I Corps, in northern Vietnam, where combat was furious and the events he recounts emerge, stark and compelling: walking point in the A Shau Valley, braving enemy fire to rescue a downed comrade, surviving days and nights of relentless tension that suddenly exploded in the blinding fury of an NVA attack. Undimmed and unmuddied by the passing of years, Johnson's account is unique in the annals of Vietnam literature. Moreover, it is a timeless testimony to the sacrifice and heroism of the LRRPs who dared to risk it all.

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