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1ETNAM
TRACKS
Armor
In
Battle
1945-75
Simon
Dunstan
Foreword
by
Maj.
Gen.
George
S.
Patton,
US
Army
(Ret.)
VIETNAM
TRACKS:
Armor
in
Battle
1945-75
One
of
the
most
neglected
aspects
of
the
campaigns
which
ravaged
Southeast
Asia has
been
the
role
of
the
armored
fighting
vehicle.
For
many
years
it
was
the
'conventional
wisdom'
of
Western
armies
that
in
mountainous
jungle
or
swampy
terrain
the
limitations
placed
unit's
mobility
upon
an
armored
outweighed
its
potential
advantage
in
firepower
over
a
lightly
equipped
guerilla
enemy.
The
cliche
image
was
that
of
the
armored
column
vulnerably
strung
out
along
heavily
mined
and
ambushed
dirt
roads.
—
as
Simon
Dunstan
demonstrates
in this
fascinating
study
—
many
In
point
of
historical
fact
commanders
made
imaginative
and
of
armor
in
this
theatre
effective
use
of
operations.
The
involvement
of French,
American
and
Australian
forces
alongside
the
different
approaches,
Army
of
the
Republic
of
Vietnam
brought
a
variety
of
and
a
wide
range
of
different
tanks,
personnel
carriers,
armored
cars
and
self-propelled
guns.
However,
terrain
a
strain
let
of
ingenious
improvisation,
a
refusal
to
the
and
the
fighting
conditions
dominate
them,
runs
through
the
history
of
many
of
these
units.
discusses
whole
subject
from
the
French
Foreign
Legion's use
of
amphibious
cargo
This
first
serious
review
of
the
initiatives,
many
such
carriers
as
fighting
'swamp-buggies'
in
the
1950s,
to
the
'bunker-busting'
of
Australian
Centurion
tanks
twenty
years
later.
The
heart
of
the
book
is
an
extraordinary
collection
of
front-line
photographs
which
the
author
has
assembled
from
many
sources,
both
official
and
private,
including
several
by
the
legendary
combat
photographer,
Tim
Page.
Accompanied
by
the
kind
of
caption
material
which
only
an
expert
could
provide,
and
which
students
of
warfare
too
seldom
find,
these,
more
than
two hundred
glimpses
of
armored
operations
over
a
period
of
thirty
years,
bring
life
the
accounts
and
quoted
memoirs
of
veterans
which
illuminate
Dunstan's
text.
ANNAM
vividly
to
The
men
who
rode
and
fought
in
the
'tracks'
Nha
Trang
faced
a
special
kind
of
war;
this
book
records
their
particular
part
in
the
history
of
the
armored
soldier,
and
also
evaluates
their
equipment
and
tactics,
and
the
organization
of
their
units.
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