David Venditta

Tragedy at Chu Lai

Reconstructing a Deadly Grenade Accident in a U.S. Army Classroom in Vietnam, July 10, 1969

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Produktbeschreibung

Nicky Venditti, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with a love of fast cars and practical jokes, went to Vietnam in 1969 and was dead in 11 days, killed by an Americal Division grenade training explosion at Chu Lai. The full story of the incident did not come out until the author, David Venditta (a different spelling), Venditti's cousin, made a chance discovery that began a decades-long effort to find out exactly what happened, what the Army did about it and who was held responsible. This book documents the Army's mishandling of the incident and the effects on the families and friends of Venditti and of the two other young soldiers who died with him.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9781476664316
• ISBN-10: 1476664315
• Artikelnr.: 44475749

Autorenporträt

David Venditta is a retired newspaper writer and editor in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: A Vietnam Odyssey, May 18, 1998 1.
That Dirty War, July 28, 1969 2.
Discovery, November 1994 3.
"A good kid," December 8, 1995 4.
Nicky Emerges, Spring 1966 5.
Best Friends, October 24, 1996 6.
Home and Unease, June 1969 7.
"Isn't worth a nickel," July 1969 8.
"We gotta get out!" July 10, 1969 9.
Bitter Pills, June 1969 10.
Casting a Wide Net, 1994-2015 11.
A Crowd of Commanders, November 20, 1998 12.
Patchwork of Memories, 1996-2015 13.
No Longer a Phantom, April 30, 2000 14.
A Dog's Bark, a Man's Voice, November 13, 2001 15.
"When you screw up in a war," November 13, 2001 16.
Making a Case for Sabotage, November 13-17, 2001 17.
The Marine Corps Way, March 28, 1967 18.
Change of Heart, July 20, 2013 19.
"A man who did not run," 2015 The Author's Interviews Selected Reading Index