13 CENT KILLERS - The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam

New York: Presidio Press - Ballantine Books, 2003. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiv) 272 pp. Dark gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Opening Shots 1966; 1st Division Sniper School - Gunnery Sergeant Vernon D. Mitchell; 5th Marine Snipers - Chu Lai Vietnam - Corporal Ronald R. Willoughby; VC Sapper Attack - Marine Corps Base Chu Lai - Sergeant Tom Casey; Night Ambush Chu Lai - Tom Casey and Vaughn Nickell; Sniper Operation at An Hoa - Sergeants Tom Casey and Ron Willoughby; Operation Tuscaloosa - Ron Willoughby and Vaughn Nickell; Six O'clock Charlie Gets Zapped; Casey's Shooters Go into Battle; Storm Clouds Gather Over Go Noi Island; Searching for the Enemy; The Viet Cong Brace for Battle; The Snipers' Assault; Snipers Invade Antenna Valley - Fred Sanders and Dennis Toncar; Snipers Called into Arizona - Sergeant Tom Casey and Ron Willoughby; Jayne Mansfield Visits An Hoa; Gunny Mitchell Comes to Casey's Aid; Great Leaders Are Made Not Born; New Snipers Report to Chu Lai; Night Patrol with Bravo 1/5; 5th Marines Push into Antenna Valley; Casey's Friend Dies a Hero's Death; Buddy Bolton and John Culbertson Team Up at Sniper School; Big Jim Flynn and Tony the Greek Go on Patrol; The Snipers Get Rescued by Grunt Mortars; and The 5th Marines Make Their Summer Offensive; followed by an appendix and a glossary..