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Swift Boats at War in Vietnam
- Narrated by: David Colacci, Susan Ericksen
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Developed specifically for the Vietnam War (and made famous by the 2004 presidential campaign), Swift Boats were versatile craft "big enough to outrun anything they couldn't outfight" but too small to handle even a moderate ocean chop, too loud to sneak up on anyone, and too flimsy to withstand the mildest of rocket attacks. This made more difficult an already tough mission: navigating coastal waters for ships and sampans smuggling contraband to the Viet Cong, disrupting enemy supply lines on the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta, and inserting SEALs behind enemy lines.
The stories in this book cover the Swift Boats' early years, which saw search-and-inspect operations in Vietnam's coastal waters, and their later years, when the Swift Boats' mission shifted to the Mekong Delta's labyrinth of 3,000 miles of rivers, streams, and canals. This is an intimate, exciting oral history of Swift Boats at war in Vietnam.
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- FIR1er
- 25-07-23
A stories that need to be told
Very interesting listening to something I knew nothing of,
I would recommend this book if you want to learn about another aspect of the Vietnam War.
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- Bradley P
- 11-10-19
Great stories about swift boats from Vietnam
Great to hear different stories from the service men who did their duties and the time when another country needed them, sad when their own country turned their backs on them when they returned home.
I wish the narrator could have used different voices to help tell their story.
The perspective one gets from their service is they did their best and handled over the necessary equipment to make the South work to win the war, sadly we all know how the war turned out.
I hope to see a movie out of Swift water navy.
retired sailor.
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- Copperfish
- 16-02-19
Easy listening and great stories.
Very well researched with great personal stories from the point of view of each story teller.
Admittedly, in my minds eye I kept visualising PBR's in the stories rather than swifts.
I recommend having a quick research of swift boats and maps before listening just to help sent the scene.
Because it's an audio book it does lack the visual cues of the photos and maps/diagrams required for a story like this. However it was still outstanding.
At no point did I feel any gun ho moments which publishers like to force into some books.
This is pure reminiscences. Humorous, tragic, happiness, sadness, emotional numbness, excitement and boredom.
Truly a great testament to the men's memories.
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