Title Seabee 71 in Chu Lai : memoir of a Navy journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967 / David H. Lyman

Published Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Contents All This to avoid the Draft? -- Off to Sea, with a Camera -- I'm going to be a Seabee -- Training for Combat Duty -- Waiting to Deploy -- Hello, Vietnam! -- Life in This 'bee Hive -- The battalion -- The 'bees get to Work -- Close Calls Come in many Sizes -- outside the Wire -- The vietnamese People -- Civic action Program -- Putting the Pieces Together -- The end is in Sight -- The Last month in 'nam Summary "Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By the summer of 1967 he found himself with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian life, he was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a photojournalist, documenting the lives of the hard-working and harder-drinking U.S. Navy SeaBees as they engineered the infrastucture of war-roads, runways, heliports and base camps for troops on the edges of the conflict. He was also shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway, and rode along on convoys through Viet Cong territory to photograph villages outside "The Wire." The stories and photographs Lyman published as editor of the battalion's newspaper, The Transit, form the basis of his memoir."-- Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Lyman, David H., 1939- United States. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 71 -- History United States. Navy. Seabees -- Biography SUBJECT United States. Navy. Seabees fast Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalism, Military Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Regimental histories -- United States Photojournalists -- Vietnam -- Biography Journalism, Military Photojournalists Regimental histories SUBJECT Chu Lai (Vietnam) -- History, Military -- 20th century Subject United States Vietnam Vietnam -- Chu Lai Genre/Form Electronic books autobiographies (literary works) Personal narratives Autobiographies Biographies History Military history Personal narratives Autobiographies. Personal narratives. Autobiographies. Récits personnels. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781476636887 1476636885

Other Titles Memoir of a Navy journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967 Seabee Seventy One in Chu Lai

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