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The Legacy of the Twins Platoon: The True-Life Stories of Marines Who Went to War in Vietnam - Tapa blanda

Sauro Jr, Christy

 
9781663271556: The Legacy of the Twins Platoon: The True-Life Stories of Marines Who Went to War in Vietnam
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ISBN 10: 1663271550 ISBN 13: 9781663271556
Editorial: iUniverse, 2025

Sinopsis

In early June 1967, Marine Corps recruits from Minneapolis-St. Paul and outlying Minnesota received a letter stating all those scheduled for active duty in June would go as one platoon on June 28, 1967. One hundred fifty Marine applicants would be shipped to San Diego, California, to the recruit training depot. The Minnesota Twins baseball team was sponsoring the unit.
They were sworn in on television at a pregame ceremony and were guests of the Twins at the game. By the end of the fourth inning, the recruits were hustled to buses whisking them to the Wold-Chamberlain Field Airport, and they flew to San Diego. Before dawn the next day, the Twins Platoon met their drill sergeants at the receiving barracks of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. By the end of the year, the Marines were in Vietnam sprinkled across the length and breadth of the Marine Corps operating areas of I Corps, the northernmost part of South Vietnam where they experienced some of the toughest combat of the war. Khe Sanh and Hue City were just a few of the hot spots they encountered as the 1968 TET Offensive rolled across the country. Not all members of the Twins Platoon came home in one piece. Some did not come home at all. In The Legacy of the Twins Platoon, author Christy Sauro Jr. tells their complete stories from baseball to combat and their lifelong readjustment to civilian life.

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iUniverse
Año de publicación
2025
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ISBN 10 
1663271550
ISBN 13 
9781663271556
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Número de páginas
410
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