OPERATION
BUFFALO:
USMC FIGHT FOR DMZ
Major Charles S. Nichols Jr, USMC and Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
Presidio, 1991, F/VG.
Slight crimping & small closed tears to head of dust jacket spine and
some slight wear to rear top corners of dust jacket. Original "$24.95"
price still intact on dust jacket. Notes, photographs, appendix, bibliography,
index, 389 pp. "On the morning of 2 July 1967, two undermanned companies
from the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division, were ambushed
in the shadow of Vietnam's DMZ by a regiment of the North Vietnamese Army.
Only a single platoon survived that meat grinder. Before nightfall, the
remainder of the 1st Battalion had been committed and another battalion
rushed in by helicopter. Within two days, two more marine battalions had
assumed positions and Operation Buffalo, as the campaign was officially
known, ground on for another week. In his fifth book on the Vietnam War,
Nolan presents the definitive account of one of the Marine Corps' most
blood-soaked battles: a tale of snipers and ambushes in the blinding elephant
grass; of tanks firing point-blank into tree lines swarming with enemy
troops; of airstrikes called within yards of friendly positions, and of
individual marines fighting isolated and outnumbered. Nolan interviewed
marines who won the Navy Cross and multiple Purple Hearts as well as grunts
so numbed with fatigue that they faked patrols. There are the gung-ho,
hard-charging lieutenants here, as well as war-weary commanders. OPERATION
BUFFALO may well be the most detailed and vivid description of any operation
in the Vietnam War~a rare glimpse into the brutal, frustrating action on
the DMZ that inflicted more casualties on the Marine Corps that did their
famous island-hopping victories in the Pacific. Next to names like Tarawa
and Peleliu should stand Operation Buffalo." Hardcover Out of Print.
$27.00
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