Description
The war stories and combat narratives of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment during fiveandahalf years of combat in Vietnam
When the US Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965 the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantrymans war if there were any role at all for armored forces it would be strictly to support the infantry However from the time the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment arrived in country in September 1966 troopers of the Blackhorse Regiment demonstrated the fallacy of this assumption By the time of Tet 68 the Armys leadership began to understand that the Regiments mobility firepower flexibility and leadership made a difference on the battlefield well beyond its numbers
Over the course of the 11th Cavalrys fiveandahalf years in combat in South Vietnam and Cambodia over 25000 young men served in the Regiment Their storiesand those of their familiesrepresent the Vietnam generation in graphic sometimes humorous often heartwrenching detail Collected by the author through hundreds of inperson telephone and electronic interviews over a period of twentyfiveplus years these war stories provide context for the companion volume The Blackhorse in Vietnam
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