Tragedy at Chu Lai
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6431-6 (ISBN)
Nicky Venditti, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with a love of fast cars and practical jokes, went to Vietnam in 1969 and was dead after 11 days, killed by an explosion during Americal Division training for new arrivals at Chu Lai. The full story of the incident did not come out until the author, David Venditta (a different spelling), Venditti's cousin, made a chance discovery that began a decades-long effort to find out exactly what happened, what the Army did about it and who was held responsible. This book documents the Army's mishandling of the incident and the effects on the families and friends of Venditti and of the two other young soldiers who died with him.
David Venditta is a newspaper writer and editor at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: A Vietnam Odyssey, May 18, 1998
1. That Dirty War, July 28, 1969
2. Discovery, November 1994
3. “A good kid,” December 8, 1995
4. Nicky Emerges, Spring 1966
5. Best Friends, October 24, 1996
6. Home and Unease, June 1969
7. “Isn’t worth a nickel,” July 1969
8. “We gotta get out!” July 10, 1969
9. Bitter Pills, June 1969
10. Casting a Wide Net, 1994–2015
11. A Crowd of Commanders, November 20, 1998
12. Patchwork of Memories, 1996–2015
13. No Longer a Phantom, April 30, 2000
14. A Dog’s Bark, a Man’s Voice, November 13, 2001
15. “When you screw up in a war,” November 13, 2001
16. Making a Case for Sabotage, November 13–17, 2001
17. The Marine Corps Way, March 28, 1967
18. Change of Heart, July 20, 2013
19. “A man who did not run,” 2015
The Author’s Interviews
Selected Reading
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.09.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 23 photographs |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6431-5 / 1476664315 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6431-6 / 9781476664316 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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