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The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969

The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969

Boccia, Frank

Paperback

Military BiographiesVietnam War

ISBN10: 0786474394
ISBN13: 9780786474394
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 26 2013
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia--the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger Hill as it is popularly known. The Rakkasans, the 3/187th, are the most highly decorated unit in the history of the United States Army, and two of those decorations were awarded for these two battles. This vivid account of the author's first seven months in Vietnam gives special attention to the events at Dong Ap Bia, following the -hard--hit 3/187th hour by hour through its repeated assaults on the mountain, against an unseen enemy in an ideal defensive position. It also corrects several errors that have persisted in histories and official reports of the battle.

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