One tough Marine : the autobiography of First Sergeant Donald N. Hamblen, USMC / Don N. Hamblen, Bruce H. Norton.
Despite losing a leg in a training accident, Hamblen served for over two years in Vietnam.
Record details
- ISBN: 0345384814
- ISBN: 9780345384812
- Physical Description: xiv, 337 pages of plates, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [1993]
- Copyright: ©1993
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : mentors -- My early years -- Boot camp -- Training in Korea -- Cold-weather training -- Voyage to Korea -- Night patrol -- Life on the lines -- Sniper school -- Winter operations -- The move West -- Corporal Carico -- Wounded -- Bunker Hill -- Back to stateside duty -- Marine Barracks, New London, Connecticut -- Back to the fleet -- 1st Force Recon Company -- A jump in the wind -- Fun in the hospital -- Back to full duty -- My trip to Washington, D.C. -- SOG duty in Vietnam -- General Nickerson calls -- Wounded again -- Final stateside duty. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Hamblen, Donald N., 1932- United States. Marine Corps. United States. Marine Corps > Biography. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives, American. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
