Great war stories

[myles]

Originally Posted by gx

Eh, don't know, we really don't talk much after he got shot.

I also heard a good story from a 101st guy in my unit who helped find a leak and arrest her (some British reporter who was attached to them would call insurgents tell that what vehicles to hit and what the load out of the convey was not to mention their route.

Woah a reporter i always taught they would be suppoting the war do you know what staion was she reporting for? (was it al jezerr lol)

[gx]

Nah, I didn't ask, you have to understand a lot of questions people want to know are opsec.

[myles]

this documenturey is realy good

The True Story Of Black Hawk Down

[LUKE_NUKE_EM]

If anyone gets a chance, here are some books packed with good stories. (true stories)

Sniper One: by Sgt. Dan Mills

Dan Mills, a sniper, was one of 100 members of 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment caught in a bloody siege by the Mahdi Army, which the Ministry of Defence (MoD) tried to conceal.

Dead Center: by Ed Kugler

Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966.

As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating.

Guadalcanal Diaries: by Richard Tregaskis

A volunteer combat correspondent, Tregaskis braved much danger to bring the story of the fighting to American readers. But he was not one to celebrate his own exploits, and in the pages of his book, he centers on the brave young men from all over the United States who fought and died in appalling numbers. His attention to detail yields arresting descriptions of attacks and counterattacks, of moments of low morale and of exaltation, of moments of quiet behind the lines and of sheer terror at the very point of engagement. Tregaskis's style is unadorned and matter-of-fact, and his present-tense narrative places the reader in the thick of the battle during those "hopeless weeks."


And now the most obvious,

Blackhawk Down: by Mark Bowden

Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a strikingly detailed account of the 1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead and many more wounded. This early foreign-policy disaster for the Clinton administration led to the resignation of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and a total troop withdrawal from Somalia. Bowden does not spend much time considering the context; instead he provides a moment-by-moment chronicle of what happened in the air and on the ground. His gritty narrative tells of how Rangers and elite Delta Force troops embarked on a mission to capture a pair of high-ranking deputies to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid only to find themselves surrounded in a hostile African city. Their high-tech MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters had been shot down and a number of other miscues left them trapped through the night.He supplements [the story] with hundreds of his own interviews, turning Black Hawk Down into a completely authentic nonfiction novel, a lively page-turner that will make readers feel like they're standing beside the embattled troops.

[HunterMed]

Maybe not 'special' like some of the already posted stories but I found it very well written and interesting to read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/ma...nted=1&_r=2&hp

[HunterMed]

Double post sorry.

[dead fish12345]

Blood Red Snow - Its a book about a German Machine gunner during WW2 and how he survives.

[LUKE_NUKE_EM]

This one is a pretty good Vietnam War story..

"THE INCREDIBLY STUPID ONE" - Professional Soldiers ®

[Liquid_Cow]

You thought 400 Taliban vs 7 seals was a good story, wait until Lone Survivor comes out as a movie (it was a great book)... 400 Taliban vs 4 Seals. It was a bloody mess on all sides.

[[R-DEV]Ninja2dan]

I just finished reading the book "Operation Phantom Fury" by Dick Camp. Great book, wish I had been able to participate in something like that.


A few other good books I had read lately were "Beyond Hell and Back" by Dwight Zimmerman and John Gresham, "Trigger Men" by Hans Halberstadt, and a few others already mentioned.



I need more books! I'm burning through about one book per 2 days, and my stack is dry.