David H. Lyman

Seabee 71 in Chu Lai

Memoir of a Navy Journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967

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Produktbeschreibung

¿ Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By summer 1967 he was with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian life, Lyman was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a photojournalist. He documented the lives of the hard-working and hard-drinking SeaBees as they engineered roads, runways, heliports and base camps for the troops. The author was shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, and spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway. He rode 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 this memoir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781476678443
• ISBN-10: 1476678448
• Artikelnr.: 56787882

Autorenporträt

David H. Lyman is a writer, photographer and entrepreneur. He left the Navy to become a newspaper and magazine editor. In 1973, he founded The Maine Photographic Workshops, and built his summer school into an international conservatory for the world's photographers, filmmakers, writers and media producers. It is located in Rockport, Maine, and continues today as MaineMedia.edu.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Glossary Preface
1.
All This to Avoid the Draft?
2.
Off to Sea, with a Camera
3.
I'm Going to Be a Seabee
4.
Training for Combat Duty
5.
Waiting to Deploy
6.
Hello, Vietnam!
7.
Life in This 'Bee Hive
8.
The Battalion
9.
The 'Bees Get to Work 10.
Close Calls Come in Many Sizes 11.
Outside the Wire 12.
The Vietnamese People 13.
Civic Action Program 14.
Putting the Pieces Together 15.
The End Is in Sight 16.
The Last Month in 'Nam Appendices: The End Is Never Really the End deleteThe Faces of Vietnam's Future deleteWhat Happened to MCB-71? deleteLessons Learned deleteOur Commanding Officers deleteWhat Are the "Boys" Doing Now? deleteThe One Who Didn't Return deleteThe History of NMCB-71's Pacific Deployment in World War II Index