Seven Firefights in Vietnam; CMH Pub 70-4

Washington DC: United States Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1985. Later printing. Wraps. Very good. viii, 159, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Glossary. Index. John A. Cash, a retired Army colonel, served in combat and intelligence assignments and as a historian. Colonel Cash retired in 1992 from the U.S. Center for Military History. He wrote two books, "Seven Firefights in Vietnam" and "The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II," and contributed to a third, "Black Soldier-White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea." He was a graduate of Rutgers University, where he also received a master's degree in history. He received a second master's, in Latin American studies, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In the early 1960s, Colonel Lee helped train Cuban nationals for the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. He served as a company commander in Vietnam during the war, as defense attache in El Salvador and Brazil and as an intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency. The Center of Military History is again pleased to reprint Seven Firefights in Vietnam, the first of any kind of publication under the Center's imprint to appear on this conflict. The events described in this small book are illustrative of much that took place in Vietnam after American troops were first committed in force in 1965: of heroic achievement and sacrifice, of human error, of experimentation and innovation, of a wily and elusive enemy, and of a new dimension in warfare afforded by the helicopter. These accounts serve as a preliminary record of the achievements of men who served their nation well, a preface to a full military history of the war that is in preparation. The narratives also serve as valuable lessons to soldiers pursuing lessons of small unit actions.