The New York Times bestseller, hailed as a "powerful and epic story... the best account of infantry combat I have ever read, and the most significant book to come out of the Vietnam War" by Col. David Hackworth, author of the bestseller About Face. In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded...

Because so few Americans have served in the military since 9/11-or even know anyone who has-many look to the media for information about veterans and military service. Popular news outlets, however, traffic in tragedy and often paint those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan with one of three broad brushes: as superhuman; as broken, disabled, and traumatized; or as dangerous, ticking time bombs. See Me for Who I Am aims to undermine these stereotypes....

During the Viet Nam war United States Air Force air traffic controllers were faced with incredibly heavy numbers of aircraft operations. At the time, Da Nang Air Base was often the busiest airport in the world, with a higher operations count than Chicago O'Hare, London, or Paris. Faced with austere living conditions, enemy attacks, and challenging situations, controllers met the challenge without fail. These are the memories of one US Air Force...

The author decided over a forty-year period to write about his experiences in South Vietnam with the Fourth Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry. His parents had managed to save every letter he had sent home during that time. What Mike decided to do with the help of his oldest granddaughter, Sierra, was to reproduce the letters in chronological order, with all the grammatical errors, misspellings, and fractured sentences as is. The letters were often...

Numbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II, author Ivan J. Houston recounts his experiences, when, as a nineteen-year-old California college student, he entered the US Army and served with the 3rd Battalion, 370th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division...

More than twenty-five African-Americans earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism during the War Between the States. From the 1860s to modern times, the rates at which those acts were recognized have varied. This manuscript conducts brief biographies of the men whose heroism was deemed worthy of special recognition. The situations each man faced while earning the medals are also covered.