Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size
Login

Military Photos



United States Naval History: Conflict in Southeast Asia-Biography

(262 total words in this text)
(2494 Reads)  Printer-friendly page
United States Naval History: Conflict in Southeast Asia-Biography

Alvarez, Everett. Chained Eagle. New York: D. I. Fine, 1989. 308 pp.

Blakey, Scott. Prisoner at War: The Survival of Commander Richard A. Stratton. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday & Co., 1978. 397 pp.

Denton, Jeremiah. When Hell Was in Session. Published by Reader's Digest Press, distributed by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1976. 246 pp.

Elkins, Frank C. The Heart of a Man: A Naval Pilot's Vietnam Diary. Rev. ed. Edited by Frank C. Elkins and Marilyn R. Elkins. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991. 132 pp.

McDaniel, Eugene B., with James L. Johnson. Scars and Stripes: The True Story of One Man's Courage in Facing Death as a Vietnam POW. Irvine, Calif.: Harvest House, 1975. 192 pp.

McGrath, John M. Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1975. 114 pp.



Authored by two young Navy pilots captured in 1967.

Rutledge, Howard, and Phyllis Rutledge, with Mel and Lyla White. In the Presence of Mine Enemies, 1965-1973: A Prisoner of War. Old Tappan, N.J.: Revell, 1973. 124 pp.

Stockdale, James B., and Sybil Stockdale. In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. 472 pp.

Zumwalt, Elmo R., Jr. On Watch: A Memoir. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1976. 568 pp.

Zumwalt, Elmo R., Jr., and Elmo Zumwalt III with John Pekkanen. My Father, My Son. Macmillan, 1986. 224 pp.
Military History
Forum Posts

Military Polls

How Would You Grade President Bush on his Performance as Commander-in-Chief?

[ Results | Polls ]

Votes: 221

This Day in History
1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.