Tiger Bravo's War follows a band of young paratroopers, from the very same battalion in the 101st Airborne Division as portrayed in Stephen Ambrose's World War II best-seller Band of Brothers, during their first year of combat in the Vietnam War--from a bayonet charge in War Zone D and street fighting during the Tet Offensive of 1968, to a rescue mission to save a surrounded platoon and rack and roll in the company mess hall, and much more. It is also a book about everyday life in a war zone and the strange, often harsh, sometimes beautiful, tropical environment in which the war was fought. Lastly, it is a soldier's tale of the young men of Tiger Bravo--the son of a World War II Japanese fighter pilot, who wins a Silver Star fighting as an American infantryman; the tough kid from rural Texas, who leaves a job cleaning astronaut offices in Houston to volunteer to be a paratrooper; the medic, abandoned by his mother, who would find in Tiger Bravo the family he never had, and over a dozen more with their own unique stories. -- Back cover.
Rick St. John
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314).
