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Add 50

Add 50

Perrin, Jack

Paperback

FantasyHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1836718810
ISBN13: 9781836718819
Publisher: Pegasus Elliot MacKenzie Publishers Ltd
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.12 Depth: 6.76
Language: English

This memoir describes my four-year Marine Corps experience, especially the thirteen-month tour in Vietnam. Brief background information begins the narrative. It ends with a few words on the return to civilian life. I first wrote about these experiences as an aid to adjusting to life at home after the marines: it was helpful therapy. About fifty years later, with extra time after retiring, I revisited the experience and rewrote the memoir into its present form. The title, Add 50, is a reference to the commands given by forward observers to guide mortar rounds to the intended target. My assignment during most of my time in-country was 81mm mortar forward observer for Charlie company. It was a difficult and dangerous task which I performed as best I could. The story covers these difficulties and is an accurate personal account of one marine's military service.

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