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The Element of Surprise : Navy SEALs in Vietnam - Darryl Young - It used to be said that the night belonged to Charlie. But that wasn't true where SEALs patrolled. For six months in 1970, fourteen men in Juliett Platoon of the Navy's SEAL Team One--including the author--carried out over a hundred missions in the Mekong Delta without a single platoon fatality. Their primary mission: kidnap enemy soldiers--alive--for interrogation

SEAL! : From Vietnam's Phoenix Program to Central America's Drug Wars : Twenty-Six Years With a Special Operations Warrior - Michael J. Walsh, et al - The U.S. Navy SEALs are revered worldwide for their dangerous work. Now, the original Navy SEALs, Team One in Vietnam, share never-before-published true stories of victory and loss, bravery and fear, and bitter struggles that include the challenge of fighting an extremely unpopular war. Unlike the unconfirmed braggadocio common to other accounts, these gripping and personal histories tell what it really means to be a United States Navy SEAL. 

Death in the Delta: Diary of a Navy SEAL - Gary R. Smith, Alan Maki (Contributor) - A former Navy SEAL shares his dramatic and dangerous experiences during his third and fourth tours of Vietnam, capturing the nightmare of a jungle war, from staging an ambush attack to waiting silently for hours and sometimes days in mosquito-infested swamps.

Hunters & Shooters : An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam - Bill Fawcett (Editor) - Part of a naval tradition that goes back to World War II, the first SEAL teams were commissioned in 1962. As underwater demolition experts, skilled parachutists, and specialists in a host of other areas, their first proving ground was Vietnam. In Hunters and Shooters, 15 SEALs tell their incredible and heroic stories.

Point Man - James, Chief Watson, Kevin Dockery (Contributor) - Chief Petty Officer James "Patches" Watson was there at the beginning of the Navy SEALs--America's deadliest and most elite fighting force. This is the story of a hero who walked the point through three tours of Vietnam . . . staying alert to trip wires, booby traps and punji pits as he guided his squad on mission after mission.

  Whattaya Mean I Can't Kill 'Em?: A Navy SEAL in Vietnam - In his unvarnished and brutally candid account, Miller shares the raw, bloody, and courageous daily life of SEALs in Vietnam. Here are unbelievable moments in six months of missions--without a single SEAL KIA--during which his platoon ran ninety-four ops, killed forty-three of the enemy, and captured thirty-one. Stealing into hostile villages, gathering intelligence, killing or kidnapping VC officials, and surviving a tropical hell of mud, heat, leeches, and constant, life-threatening peril, Miller and his teammates undeniably earned their pay

Walking Point: The Experiences of a Founding Member of the Elite Navy SEALs - Chief James 'Patches' Watson, et al - The author of Point Man discusses the history of the SEALs, their intensive training program, their specialized skills and equipment, and their missions around the world, including an assignment to locate a Vietnamese POW camp.

First SEAL - Roy Boehm - He's dodged flamethrowers in Vietnam and political bombshells back home. Now the legendary founder of the world's toughest commando force--the U.S. Navy SEALs--tells his scorching, secret-shattering story . Mastering survival within war's deadly arena, Roy Boehm has combined his expertise with a deep and unwavering patriotism to help change the course of 20th-century warfare.

SEALs : UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam - T. L. Bosiljevac - In January 1962, two Sea, Air, and Land Teams were formed. Commissioned to operate up to twenty miles inland in enemy territory, they would act as naval commandos whose functions were to gather intelligence, raid, ambush, capture prisoners, and create havoc in enemy territory. This book recounts the many daring missions that the SEALs undertook to serve their country. It was during the Vietnam War years that their Special Warfare reputation was built, and the heroism of the few brave men detailed here shows why.

Master Chief: Diary of a Navy SEAL - Gary R. Smith, Alan Maki - In Master Chief, Gary Smith covers his fifth tour in Vietnam and his rise to the highest enlisted rank, master chief petty officer. Smith holds nothing back describing duty in one of the world's toughest fighting units. Master Chief is an outstanding memoir of a warrior who answered the call to arms.

The Men Behind the Trident : SEAL Team One in Vietnam - Dennis J. Cummings, David Cummings - This is the story of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team One in Vietnam as told by twenty of the elite Navy commandos who fought there from 1962 to 1972. Here for the first time, these unorthodox and sometimes iconoclastic special warriors talk about the missions that are left out of the official histories and existing accounts. Extraordinarily gripping and personal, these narratives reveal what really happened on those covert forays. Dennis Cummings has succeeded in coaxing the SEALs to reveal what made them tick, why they volunteered for such dangerous work and returned for multiple tours in the unpopular war, how they pooled their special talents and motivations, and finally how they overcame fear, frustration, and personal losses.

SEALs in Action - Kevin Dockery

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