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Old 05-09-2006, 20:25   #798
C46thVA
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Richmond VA
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Well, Ive read "Night of the Silver Stars" and also SGM Craigs book, "TEAM SGT,a Special Forces NCO at Lang Vei" along with numerous articles and interviews. If you could suggest any others I would appreciate it. Also there is a new book out on Special Forces CIDG camps that has some great maps of the camp and the battle that followed. Its funny you should mention it, it was a story of this battle in a book called "Seven firefights in Vietnam" that started my interest in SF's "adventures" in that war (that and the 1965 Natl Geo story of the Montagnard rebellion).
Ive always found the Marines reluctance to come to the aid of the camp perplexing. Thank god the SOG guys at Khe San took matters into thier own hands. Sorry for the spelling errors but Im really tired.
It may seem like a bad idea considering Hollywoods treatment of the war in Vietnam but I always thought that this battle would make an excellent film.
Im actually considering working on a history of Project Delta for my thesis. Of all of the "special projects" including SOG, Project Delta seems to be the one with the least written about it. Ive always thought this was sad because those guys in Delta pioneered the special recon mission in Vietnam. The Recondo School for instance was a direct out growth of Deltas experiences. Col Beckwith, in his book covers the subject somewhat as does Leigh Wade in "The protected will never know", but as far as I know no definative study of Project Delta has been published.
JW

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