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Nonfiction
Welcome to the Nonfiction Section of Kensington Pond Books.
If you enjoy reading about real adventures and life experiences by
the people who lived them, then you have arrived at the right place.
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 Don's
Coming Home
Carole Cornett White lost her brother Don during the battle of
LZ Albany on November 17, 1965. Over 150 soldiers of the 2nd Battalion,
7th Cavalry died in the tall grass of the Ia Drang Valley that November,
each a brother, a father, a husband or son.
Fix
Bayonets
In 1966, Ed Polonitza
was a platoon leader in A Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry
(ABN.) of the famous 1st Air Cavalry Division. The infantry
platoon leader had one mission and that was to engage and destroy
the enemy. Their job description was simple, "follow me".
Ambush
at An Lo
Garry Bowles served with A Company 2nd Battalion, 8th ABN, from
November 1965 to November 1966. During much of that period, he served
as the company's senior combat medic.
Door
Gunner
Thom Jefferson was a door gunner from 1966 to 1967. He served with
A Company of the famous 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion. Door
gunners were a special breed.
Cavalry
Air mobility--the conception, organization and deployment of the
1st Air Cavalry Division to the Republic of South Vietnam.
LZ
Hereford
This is the story of Ed Polonitza and the men he led on an eagle
flight to a place called LZ Hereford, during a terrible time called
"Crazy Horse."
Reflections
A young lieutenant's rite of passage through the 1st year of the
Viet Nam war.
First
Contact
David Dement remembers November 4, 1965. |
