Military Assistance Command
Vietnam - Studies and Observation Group (MACV-SOG)
SOG:
The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
- John L. Plaster - Major John L. Plaster, a three-tour
veteran of Vietnam tells the story of the most highly
classified United States covert operatives to serve
in the war: The Studies and Observations Group, code-named
SOG. Comprised ofvolunteers from such elite military
units as the Army's Green Berets, the USAF Air Commandos,
and Navy SEALs, SOG agents answered directly to the
Pentagon's Joint Chiefs, with some missions requiring
approval from the White House. Now for the first time,
the dangerous assignments of this top-secret unit
can at last be revealed!
The
Protected Will Never Know - Leigh Wade - Commander
Leigh Wade outwitted death through five harrowing
SF tours in Vietnam. n 1965, during his second assignment
in Vietnam, Wade volunteered for duty with the newly
arrived 173rd Airborne and participated in the first
battalion-size helicopter assault in Vietnam. Later
he helped set up a Special Forces A-camp and worked
with the 1st Cav, eventually taking part in SOG operations,
where he was a recon team leader. In early 1966, after
joining the highly classified all-volunteer C-5 unit,
he engaged in unconventional warfare and clandestine
ops in Cambodia, roving deep into areas crawling with
NVA.
15
Months With SOG : A Warrior's Tour - Thomas L.
Nicholson - As commander of Company B, CCN's Raider
Company, Nicholson commanded four platoons, comprising
nearly two hundred men, in some of the war's most
deadly missions, including ready-reaction missions
for patrols in contact with the enemy, patrol extractions
under fire, and top-secret expeditions "over
the fence" into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam.
Colonel Nicholson spares no one, including himself,
as he provides a rare glimpse into the workings of
one of the military's most carefully concealed reconnaissance
campaigns. Note: Special Operations.Com
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Annexe
a 1964-66 (MACV-SOG Command Histories)
MACV-SOG
Command History Annex B 1971-1972 : The Last Secret
of the Vietnam War
MACV-SOG
Command History Annex B 1971-1972 : The Last Secret
of the Vietnam War (2-volume set)
MACV-SOG
Command History Annex B 1971-1972 : The Last Secret
of the Vietnam War (2-volume set)
MACV-SOG
Command Histories (Annexes A, N & M 1964-1966
: 1st Secrets of the Vietnam War)
Operation Phoenix (Phoenix Program)
Stalking
the Vietcong : Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal
Account - Stuart A. Herrington - As a district-level
Operation Phoenix officer in Vietnam from February
1971 to August 1972, Stuart Herrington's job was to
root out insurgency in the villages and hamlets of
Duc Hue. "A poignant, personal account by an Army
district adviser who discovered the Vietcong to be
a formidable opponent"
Phoenix
and the Birds of Prey : The CIA's Secret Campaign
to Destroy the Viet Cong - Mark Moyar, Harry G.
Summers
Mobile Guerrilla Force
Mobile
Guerrilla Force : With the Special Forces in War Zone
D - James C. Donahue - The member of an
experimental Army Special Forces unit of Green Berets
in Vietnam chronicles its treacherous mission through
a heavily defended parcel of Vietcong territory and
describes its remarkable guerrilla tactics.
Hard
to Forget : An American With the Mobile Guerrilla
Force in Vietnam - Steven M. Yedinak
Air America
Wings
of the CIA - Frederic Lert
Wings
of Air America - Terry Love
Related Topics
Project
Alpha: Washington's Secret Military Operations in
North Vietnam - Sedgwick Tourison - In an operation
code named Plan 34-Alpha, covert agents from South
Vietnam were recruited for dangerous land, sea, and
air missions. Drawing on recently declassified documents
and on the first-person interviews of a man who was
there, this book tells the harrowing stories of a
unique breed of warrior and the daring battles they
fought. A chronicle of deception, betrayal and exceptional
bravery, it is the inside account of some of the most
extraordinary operations in the history of modern
warfare.
Covert
Ops : The CIA's Secret War in Laos - James E.,
Jr. Parker - In 1972, U.S. soldiers battle the North
Vietnamese. Behind the headlines, a secret war rages
in Laos. Sky, a close-knit cadre of daredevil CIA
agents, spearheads a daring operation. These gutsy
secret agents direct a fearless force of Thai mercenaries
and native Hmong tribespeople--fighting the enemy
toe-to-toe. Now Sky veteran James Parker, codename
"Mule, " reveals the untold story of the
covert war in Laos, taking readers inside the mind-boggling
world of extraordinary men. Published in hardcover
by Naval Institute Press as Codename Mule.
Shadow
War : The CIA's Secret War in Laos - Kenneth Conboy,
James Morrison
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