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The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle To Survive the Vietnam War
By Stanton, Doug
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- 9781476761916 9781476761930
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- Scribner
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Starred Review on September 1, 2017 | Views of Vietnam
Fresh out of high school in 1966, Stanley Parker enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. The second of the Parker brothers to serve in the armed forces, Stanley wanted to go to Vietnam because "that's where the fighting was." On December 27, 1967, he celebrated his 20th birthday in the midst of a fierce firefight. By the time he left Vietnam in 1968, his unit Echo Company (First Battalion Airborne) had...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
