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Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam

Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam

Delezen, John Edmund

Paperback

General United States HistorySoutheast Asian HistoryVietnam War

ISBN10: 0786416564
ISBN13: 9780786416561
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 25 2003
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood. John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967. He volunteered for the Third Force Recon Company, whose job it was to locate and infiltrate enemy lines undetected and map their locations and learn details of their status. The duty was often painful both physically and mentally. He was stricken with malaria in November of 1967, wounded by a grenade in February of 1968 and hit by a bullet later that summer. He remained in Vietnam until December, 1968.

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