Hunters & Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam

ISBN: 0061375667

Author: Fawcett, Bill

Condition: New

The U.S. Navy SEALs have long been considered among the finest, most courageous, and professional soldiers in American military history-an elite fighting force trained as parachutists, frogmen, demolition experts, and guerrilla warriors ready for sea, air, and land combat. Born out of a proud naval tradition dating back to World War II, the first SEAL teams were commissioned in the early 1960s. Vietnam was their proving ground.In this remarkable volume, fifteen former SEALs-most of them original founding team members, or "plankowners"-share their vivid first-person remembrances of action in Vietnam. Here are honest, brutal, and relentlessly thrilling stories of covert missions, ferocious firefights, and red-hot chopper insertions and extractions, revealing astonishing little-known truths that will only add strength to the enduring SEAL legend.