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Title: On Course to Desert Storm: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf (Contributions to naval history) by Michael A. Palmer ISBN: 0-945274-09-2 Publisher: Bernan Assoc Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.00

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Comment: The Naval Historical Center in Washington has once again "crossed the T" by publishing a colossal illustrated history of the U. S. Navy and its involvement in the war in Southeast Asia. After a brief recap on how the United States became embroiled in this area of the world, this book traces in a concise, lively narrative, the U. S. Navy's activities in and over the two Vietnams, Laos and Cambodia. The Navy story is supported by more than 500, repeat 500, exceptional photographs, The hundreds of thousands of Navy men and women who served in Southeast Asia can rightly be mighty proud of the service they performed in this dirty, deadly, frustrating war. As shown in "By Sea, Air and Land," the Navy, contrary to the belief of some, was not confined to sleek men-o-war, cruising miles off shore in the South China Sea, lobbing an occasional shell toward the mainland and then taking a break for a visit to the ship's canteen and a first run movie. On the contrary, the Navy, during the Vietnam Era was at the height of its operational versatility: Carrier air strikes, amphibious and naval gunfire support operations, riverine and coastal warfare, counterinsurgency and civic action, and the advisory effort. All contributing greatly to the massive American effort in the Nam. Thousands of Marines, and I 'm one of them, can attest that, when the fecal material struck the ventilation apparatus, the Navy was there in the form of a Corpsman, a naval gunfire support officer, or often, a pilot making a hot run on an enemy strong point. And there were the Navy Chaplins, the "sky pilots," ministering to the spritual needs of their camouflaged flocks. The ministering did not take place only in lulls between firefights, as attested to by the Medal of Honor awarded Chaplin Vincent R. Capodanno, who, already painfully wounded, was finally killed while administering first aid to the wounded and last rites to the dying in a 1968 battle. Ask the Army members of the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta who was responsible for transporting them and their artillery and providing direct gunfire support in the sharp, vicious fire fights along hundreds of miles of the Mekong, Dai, Ham Luong, Co Chien and Bassac Rivers, and in the forbidding Rung Sat Swamp -- the answer begins with U.S.N. Close to 7,000 Navy personnel became casualties during the war in Southeast Asia, 14 won the Medal of Honor. You don't get the MOH at the ship's store, you get it the old fashioned way, you earn it. "By Land, Air, and Sea" is a gold mine for students of military history or anyone who served in or was associated with the Navy in Southeast Asia. Every American naval operation conducted in the 25-year American effort to aid the Republic of Vietnam is represented in this massive, 410 page tribute to a first class fighting service. This book is definitely not a grand discourse on national strategy. The reader is transported, by photographs, into rice paddy fire fights, into a forward gun tub on a high speed river patrol boat, and into the cockpit of an A--4C Skyhawk as it makes its run on a target in North Vietnam. Once you own it, you'll discover that you've got a 410 page 11" X 8 1/2" photo album that you will be proud to put on your coffee table. It's just the right size to carry to a sea service reunion, too.