Ed Gaydos was not a hero. Shipped off to Vietnam in 1970, he did not capture a single enemy soldier or single-handedly dismantle the Ho Chi Minh trail. He sat on a remote patch of sand behind barbed wire with a bunch of teenagers, dodging incoming mortars, battling insects and holding back an avalanche of paperwork.This hilarious, intelligent memoir of the regular soldiers of the Vietnam War will leave readers of all types hungry for the next story. With an unflinching eye for detail that spares no one, even himself, Ed Gaydos reveals his personal struggles to make sense of the war. He somehow manages to exit laughing in Seven In A Jeep.

Seven in a Jeep

Biographies & Memoirs

Gaydos, Ed

Leaders & Notable People

Columbus Press

Surplus: The Long Arm of Vietnam is a companion to Ed Gaydos's debut memoir, Seven in a Jeep: A Memoir of the Vietnam War. Surplus continues Ed Gaydos's story after he returned from the Vietnam War in 1971. These are the lessons that shaped his life as a person, a father and a successful executive.

Surplus: The Long Arm of Vietnam - A Companion to Seven in a Jeep

Boys of Battery B tells the story of an air mobile artillery unit operating in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. These are the adventures of everyday life in the field from the guys who served, not a neat chronology of historical facts. For some this is the first time they’ve talked about Vietnam, waiting over half a century to let the memories flow. When they talk of Vietnam, especially among other veterans, they become boys again. You can't make these stories up: They careen from the funny to the tragic, from heroic to the wildly crazy, and all poured out with the hot-blooded passion of youth. In a bar outside Ft. Sill during an artillery reunion, bunch of rowdy B Battery guys were at the next table. They were laughing and pounding the table as the beer bottles piled up. That was the inspiration for this book. To place the reader at the next table to listen in. B Battery, 5/27 Field Artillery, arrived in Vietnam from Oakland, CA on October 29, 1965 aboard the USS J.C. Breckinridge. The stories begin there, and continue to its departure from the field on July 5, 1971. The battery operated in the Central Highlands of II Corps, first attached to the 101st Airborne, and later assigned to First Field Force. These stories are based on taped interviews of forty-seven men who served with the battery throughout its time in Vietnam, containing pictures and documents each man brought back. They adhere closely to exact interview transcripts, so as to preserve each soldier’s unique personality, perspective and way of speaking. In the absence of verified facts or strong circumstantial evidence, different ways of remembering the same event were allowed to stand, encouraged in fact. The spirit of the collection is this: How the veteran remembers is the most important fact of all.

BOYS OF BATTERY B: Stories From Vietnam 1965 - 1971

History

Military

Independently published

Boys of Battery B tells the story of an air mobile artillery unit operating in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. These are the adventures of everyday life in the field from the guys who served, not a neat chronology of historical facts. For some this is the first time they’ve talked about Vietnam, waiting over half a century to let the memories flow. When they talk of Vietnam, especially among other veterans, they become boys again. You can't make these stories up: They careen from the funny to the tragic, from heroic to the wildly crazy, and all poured out with the hot-blooded passion of youth. In a bar outside Ft. Sill during an artillery reunion, a bunch of rowdy B Battery guys were at the next table. They were laughing and pounding the table as the beer bottles piled up. That was the inspiration for this book. To place the reader at the next table to listen in. B Battery, 5/27 Field Artillery, arrived in Vietnam from Oakland, CA on October 29, 1965 aboard the USS J.C. Breckinridge. The stories begin there, and continue to its departure from the field on July 5, 1971. The battery operated in the Central Highlands of II Corps, first attached to the 101st Airborne, and later assigned to First Field Force. These stories are based on interviews of forty-seven men who served with the battery throughout its time in Vietnam, containing pictures and documents each man brought back. They adhere closely to exact interview transcripts, so as to preserve each soldier’s unique personality, perspective and way of speaking. In the absence of verified facts or strong circumstantial evidence, different ways of remembering the same event were allowed to stand, encouraged in fact. The spirit of the collection is this: How the veteran remembers is the most important fact of all.

BOYS OF BATTERY B: Stories from Vietnam: 1965 - 1971 (Color Edition)

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Seven in a Jeep

Surplus: The Long Arm of Vietnam - A Companion to Seven in a Jeep

BOYS OF BATTERY B: Stories From Vietnam 1965 - 1971

BOYS OF BATTERY B: Stories from Vietnam: 1965 - 1971 (Color Edition)