Vietnam 1968-1969: A Battalion Surgeon's Journal
Byron Holley spent the longest year of his young life in Vietnam as surgeon of the 4th Battalion of the 39th Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. He lived like a swamp rat in the boonies of the Mekong Delta, and his actions were sometimes all that made the difference between life and death.But Holley never got used to death. In a land torn by generations of bloodshed, filled with leeches, snakes, malaria-infested mosquitoes, and, of course, the Viet Cong, Holley witnessed firsthand the heartbreaking courage of the men who fought and died in a terrible war.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.