Chapter 1: History Repeats Itself
1. Mike Feinsilber, “Paratroopers, Gun Ships Trap Red Regiment,” The Atlanta Constitution, August 17, 1967, p. 2.
Chapter 2: The Long Journey
1. Edwin Q. White, “Stratoforts Bomb Big Buildup Base,” The Atlanta Constitution, August 19, 1967, p. 1.
Chapter 3: Good Morning, Vietnam
1. Editor, “Showdown in U.S. Over Vietnam War,” U.S. News & World Report, Volume LXIII-No.9, August 28, Washington, D.C. 1967, p. 21.
Chapter 4: Sliders
1. Peter Baestrup, “Thieu Joins Tour With His Rivals” and “Viet Cong Mortar Attack Kills 50 Civilians in Delta,” The New York Times, August 27, 1967 pp. 1:7, 2:3.
Chapter 5: Assignment: Mekong Delta
1. Editor, “End of Vietnam War in Sight?” An interview with the Army’s Chief of Staff, General Harold K. Johnson. U.S. News & World Report, Volume LXIII No. 11, September 11, 1968, pp. 44-45.
Chapter 6: Rude Awakening
1. Editor, “U.S. Forces Under Fire; Lands on Shore of River,” The New York Times, September 16, 1967, p. 5:2.
Chapter 7: Storm Clouds over the Double Y
1. Editor, “Inside the Vietcong,” Time, August 25, 1967, p. 21.
2. Ibid., p. 20.
Chapter 8: Trouble at the Double Y
1. Editor, “March on the Pentagon,” Newsweek, October 30, 1967, p. 20.
Chapter 9: Friendly Fire
1. John W. Finney, “McCormack Scores Foes of War Policy,” The New York Times, October 12, 1967, pp. 1:1, 5:2.
Chapter 10: River Assault
1. Editor, “Hanging on With Giap,” Newsweek, October 23, 1967, p. 36.
Chapter 11: Into Snoopy’s Nose
1. John W. Finney, “Pilots Loss Linked to Bombing Curbs,” The New York Times, October 24, 1967, p. 1:2.
Chapter 12: Changes
1. Lloyd Norman and Edward Kosner, “Why Is McNamara Leaving?” Newsweek, December 11, 1967, p. 3.
2. Ibid., p. 25-26.
Chapter 13: Sudden Death
1. Max Frankel, “President Visits Base in Vietnam After Thai Stop,” The New York Times, December 23, 1967, p. 1:8.
2. Editor, “McNamara: Under the Gun?” Newsweek, October 30, 1967, p. 16.
3. R.W. Apple, Jr., “Pacification Moves Slowly in Mekong Delta Region,” The New York Times, December 23, 1967, pp. 1:5-6, 8:3.
Chapter 14: East of the Sun
1. Editor, “Drive to Send Gifts to Troops Gets Big Response,” The New York Times, December 23, 1967, p. 8:4.
2. Editor, The Atlanta Constitution, “Atlanta GI Gets Asylum,” March 6, 1968, p. 6:1.
Chapter 15: Unfriendly Fire
1. Editor, The Atlanta Constitution, “Jets Hammer North in Effort to Cut Flow of Supplies South,” December 7, 1967, p. 1:8.
2. Editor, “Three Holiday Truces Set by Viet Cong,” The New York Times, November 18, 1967, p. 18:1.
Chapter 16: Big Storm
1. John S. Bowman, ed., The Vietnam War Day by Day (London: Bison Books, 1989) p. 119.
Chapter 17: Gates of Hell
1. Military Assistance Command – Vietnam, “Instructions to United States troops in Vietnam,” The MACV Observer, January 31, 1968.
Chapter 18: Storm Unremitting
1. Oberdorfer, Don, Tet, Avon Books, New York, 1971, p. 169.
2. Bowman, p. 120.
Chapter 19: Mopping Up
1. Joseph Kraft, “More Troops Not the Central Issue,” The Atlanta Constitution, March 5, 1968, p. 4:7.
2. Bowman, p. 121.
Chapter 20: Rats of a Different Sort
1. Bowman, pp. 121-122.
2. Editor, “U.S. Creates Command Along DMZ,” The Atlanta Constitution, March 8, 1968, p. 1:3.
Chapter 21: Blessed Respite
1. Art Pine, “Widen Strategy, Russell Urges,” The Atlanta Constitution, March 13, 1968 p. 3:1.
2. Milton Benjamin, “He Would ‘End the War’ if Elected, Nixon Pledges,” The Atlanta Constitution, March 6, 1968, p. 2.
Chapter 22: Clock Winding Down
1. Bowman, p. 124.
2. Editor, “Seven Days in April,” Newsweek, April 15, 1968, p. 26.
3. Editor, “Postponing the Blow,” Newsweek, July 15, 1968, p. 44.
Chapter 23: Revival
1. Hedrick Smith & Neil Sheehan, “Westmoreland Requests 206,000 More Men, Stirring Debate in Administration,” The New York Times, March 10, 1968, p. 1:8.
2. Bowman, p. 132.
3. Lewis Gulich, “Johnson is Cautious on Peace Expectations,” The Atlanta Constitution, May 4, 1968, p. 1.
4. Bowman, p. 163.
Chapter 24: Returning
1. Editor, “The War in Indochina,” Newsweek, July 6, 1970, p. 51.
Chapter 25: Garry Owen
1. Editor, “Garry Owen tradition,” Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1968.
Chapter 27: War Zone D
1. Editor, “Fighting to Continue,” The Atlanta Constitution, August 1, 1970, p. 8.
Chapter 28: Green
1. Editor, “The War in Indochina,” Newsweek, August 3, 1970, p. 34.
Chapter 30: Operation Mercer
1. Editor, “Inside North Vietnam: A Tidal Wave of Troubles” U.S. News and World Report, Nov 30, 1970, p. 21.
Chapter 31: Reorienting
1. Editors, “Vietnam ‘Failures’—A Military View” U.S. News and World Report, Nov 23, 1970, p. 51.
2. Editor, “Complete Pullout Planned,” The Atlanta Constitution, October 7, 1970, p. 1.
3. Sol W. Sanders, “Can South Vietnam Survive After the GI’s Leave?” U.S. News & World Report, September 28, 1970, p. 72.
Chapter 32: Bruised Heart
1. Editor, “Toward an Ideal Army,” Time, October 26, 1970, p. 26.
Chapter 33: Recovery
1. Editor, “New Regulation May Permit Hundreds to Avoid Draft,” The Atlanta Constitution, October 2, 1970, p. 2.
Chapter 34: Artillery Ambush
2. Alan Dawson, “No GIs Reported Killed,” The Atlanta Constitution, November 12, 1970, p. 6.
Chapter 35: Back to Bravo
1. Wendell S. Merick, “Sagging Morale in Vietnam—Eyewitness Report on Drugs, Race Problems, and Boredom” U.S. News & World Report: (January 25, 1971) p. 30.
2. Ibid., p. 32.
Chapter 36: Backs to the Wall
1. Editors, “Reds Turn Noses Up on POW Exchange Offer,” Marietta Daily Journal, Dec 3, 1970, p. 88.
2. Merick, pp. 31-32.
3. Ibid., p. 32.
Chapter 37: Staff Wars
1. Merick, p. 33.
2. Ibid., p. 30.
Chapter 38: Delta Demons
1. Alan Brown, “Stiff resistance at ‘Bunker City’” Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1971.
Chapter 39: News from Home
1. Bowman, p. 176.
Chapter 41: Which Way Home?
1. John Tegtmeier, The Vietnam War Internet Project, May 25, 2003, www.vwip.org/vwiphome.html/.
2. Editors, “Rallies—And Riots—For Peace,” U.S. News & World Report, April 27, 1971, p. 78.
Chapter 42: Fragments
1. Phil Gailey,” Calley Draws Life, Appeal Under Way,” The Atlanta Constitution, April 1, 1971, p. 1.
Chapter 43: Saint Christopher
2. Bowman, p. 181.