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Wade, Leigh

 
9780804117135: The Protected Will Never Know
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ISBN 10: 0804117136 ISBN 13: 9780804117135
Editorial: Ivy Books,U.S., 1998

Sinopsis

A five-year veteran of Special Forces combat provides unique insights into the combat, courage, and carnage he witnessed during his tours in Vietnam and Cambodia. Original.

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Leigh Wade was born in Perry, Oklahoma, in August 1942. His father was a professional Army officer, and the family moved frequently. Leigh joined the Army in 1961, a week after he graduated high school. He spent most of the next ten years with Special Forces units in Southeast Asia. He left the Army in 1971 but returned in 1982. He retired a sergeant first class in 1992. He has two sons and a daughter and lives with his younger son in Tucson.

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E<br><br>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.<br><br>Unlike many others, Wade lived to tell about what he saw. Captured in these pages is the horror, courage, and carnage of every moment spent trapped precariously between life and death.

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Editorial
Ivy Books,U.S.
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0804117136
ISBN 13 
9780804117135
Encuadernación
Libro de bolsillo
Número de páginas
245
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