Air Cav: History of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam 1965-1969
MAJ J. D. Coleman (1930-2005) worked with the 1st Cavalry Division’s contributing authors to compile the original edition of Air Cav. Author of Pleiku, Incursion, and WONJU: The Gettysburg of the Korean War, MAJ Coleman served in the U.S. Army from 1948 to 1952 and from 1963 to 1979. He was an Airborne Infantryman in the 187th Regimental Combat Team in the Korean War and PIO with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. He continued serving as PIO at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and Fort Ord, California, and later as Chief of Command Information at Fort McPherson, Georgia. He retired as a Lt. Col. in 1979.