Vietnam War River Patrol

A U. S. Gunboat Captain Returns to the Mekong Delta

By Richard H. Kirshen

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Publish Date

2017

Publisher

McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Language

eng

Pages

252

Description:

"As a 20-year-old gunboat captain and U.S. Navy diver in the Mekong Delta, the author was responsible for both the vessel and its crew. Forty years after the war, he returned as a tourist. This journal records his impressions of the Delta as seen first from a river patrol boat, then from a luxury cruise ship"--

subjects: Vietnam war, 1961-1975, campaigns, Mekong river delta (vietnam and cambodia), Vietnam War, 1961-1975, American Personal narratives, Biography, Officers, Travel, American Riverine operations, Description and travel, United States. Mobile Riverine Force, United States. Navy