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ISBN 10:1960249142
ISBN 13:9781960249142
Author:Matt Jackson
“Hawk Claw is engaging,” the pilot reports firing the first TOW missile ever from a helicopter in combat.

Fire Base Delta had already been over run and Fire Base Charlie was fighting for its life. How much would fall before the North Vietnamese army was knocking on the doors of the key city of Kontum?

This was the third phase of the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Campaign of 1972. Standing across the country between them and the fall of Saigon was a poorly led South Vietnamese Army, brave South Vietnamese soldiers, and US Advisors. How much ground would be lost before they could stop the flow of men and tanks coming across the borders?

This is their story as related to the author by those who were there.

Follow Major Steinhauer as he withdraws with the fleeing South Vietnamese soldiers from the long-forgotten battlefields of Ben Het, Dak To and Pleng Klung. Ride with the crews that were the first to engage enemy forces with the aerial TOW weapon system in combat. Comprehend the bravery of the South Vietnamese soldier when properly led, and the defeated cowardice of the South Vietnamese senior officers. Examine how an American civilian was serving in the capacity of a two-star general commanding all the forces opposed to the North Vietnamese invasion in the Kontum region. Serve with the civilian volunteer nurses that remained in the besieged city of Kontum to care for the wounded during the battle.

The events are all true, as are most of the characters who are still alive, who retold their tales of what it was like to be under siege for so many days against overwhelming odds.

The courage, dedication, and loyalty of US advisors towards their South Vietnamese counterparts as well as the bravery of the South Vietnamese soldiers when properly led will astound you. The determination of Army Aviators to curtail the enemy and save the advisors is nothing short of miraculous.

Battle of Kontum 1972 1st Table of contents:

1 Autumn in the Highlands, 1971

2 Fighting in Phu Nhon

3 A Hundred Tons of Bombs

4 The Looming Threat

5 The Year of the Rat

6 The North Vietnamese Invasion

7 Attacking in An Khe Pass

8 Our Firebases Fall

9 The Collapse at Tan Canh

10 A Debacle at Dak To

11 A New Team for the Defense

12 Closing in on Kontum

13 Cut Off and Surrounded

14 Tanks Attacking!

15 Struggling to Hold It Together

16 “Brother, This Is Going to Be It!”

17 “You Are Going to Be Overrun!”

18 The Dirty Job of Killing

19 All Over but the Shooting?

20 Finishing the Job

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