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SSG: Staff Sergeant.
Stand down: Company size rest period.
Starlight scope: Night vision rifle scope.
Steel pot: GI helmet.
STS: Short-timer’s Syndrome.
Supergook: An enemy soldier who seems impossible to kill, always escapes.
Tet: Vietnamese lunar new year.
Tracer: A bullet that leaves a luminous trail.
US: United States.
USO: United Services Organization (provides troop entertainment).
VC: Viet Cong.
VD: Venereal Disease
Viet Cong: Local communist irregular, guerilla fighter.
Web gear: Woven belts that hold canteens, grenades, pouches, etc.
World: The United States, home.
Bibliography
In writing this book, I referred to a wide variety of sources to refresh my aging recollection as to topography, geography, dates, and so forth. Below is a partial list of those I found the most useful.
BOOKS
Bonds, Ray. The Vietnam War. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1979.
Drake, Hal. Pacific Stars And Stripes: Vietnam Front Pages. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1986.
Esper, George and The Associated Press. The Eyewitness History of the Vietnam War 1961-1975. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983.
Jury, Mark. The Vietnam Photo Book. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971.
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Appendix 1 (May 9-10, 1969) to Annex A (Execution) to After Action Report, APACHE SNOW, 101st Airborne Division.
Appendixes 2 thru 11 (May 11-20, 1969) to Annex C (Execution) to After Action Report, APACHE SNOW, 101st Airborne Division.
MILITARY PUBLICATIONS
Bryan, Maj. Richard L. The 1968-1969 Pictorial Review of The 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile). 101st Airborne Division, San Francisco, 1969.
GENERAL ARTICLES
“America Gathers under a Sign of Peace.” Life. October 24, 1969.
“The Battle for Hamburger Hill.” Time. May 30, 1969.
“The Embattled White House.” Life. October 24, 1969.
“The Faces of the Dead in Vietnam—One Week’s Toll.” Life. June 27, 1969.
“History of Camp Evans.” Ripcord Report. October, 1989.
“The Siege of Firebase Ripcord,” by Hawkins, Charles F. American Sentinel. August 2, 1992.
“Teddy on the Stump.” Newsweek. June 2, 1969.
“Woe to the Victors.” Newsweek. June 2, 1969.
SELECTED MILITARY ARTICLES
Borders, Spec. 5 Robert. “Dong Ap Bia.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Summer 1969.
Editors. “Screaming Eagle Vietnam Diary.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Summer 1969.
Higle, Spec. 4 Roger. “Screaming Eagle Vietnam Diary.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Winter 1969.
Horvath, Maj. Richard L. “Armor In The A Shau.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Fall 1969.
Horvath, Maj. Richard L. “Mystique of the Valley.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Summer 1969.
Kendall, Spec. 5 Anthony. “Mai Loc.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Winter 1969.
Lackeos, Spec. 4 Nick. “No Room for Emotion.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Fall 1969.
McLaughlin, Spec. 5 J. Michael. “Going Home.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Spring 1969.
Pitchford, PFC Gary. “The Girls Who Wear the Screaming Eagle Patch.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Summer 1969.
Posner, Spec. 4 Calvin S. “Kit Carson Scout.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Summer 1969.
Siner, Spec. 4 Howard. “Sixty Classes Improve Bn’s Airmobile Skills.” The Screaming Eagle, Vol. III, No. 5, Feb. 16, 1970.
Smith, Spec. 4 Terry. “Screaming Eagle Vietnam Diary.” Rendezvous With Destiny. Fall 1969.
MOVIES
“Stalag 17,” Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum, Paramount Studios, 1953.
“North by Northwest,” Ernest Lehman, MGM Studios, 1959.
“The Wizard of Oz,” L. Frank Baum and Mervyn LeRoy, MGM Studios, 1939.
SONGS
“I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin-to-Die Rag.” Words and music by Country Joe McDonald. Vanguard Records, 1967. Published by Tradition. Also by Cotillion Records, 1970, a division of Atlantic Records.
“Bad Moon Rising.” Words and music by J. C. Fogerty-Jondora. Fantasy Records, 1969.
“You Keep Me Hanging On.” Words and music by B. Holland and L. Dozier. Motown Records, 1966; Atlantic Records, 1967.