Angels on Our Shoulders: How I Earned My College Tuition Money (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781449030261)

Angels On Our Shoulders is a book about a young (age18) combat infantryman's up-close and personal experiences in the Viet Nam war as it raged on in 1969-1970. The book is filled with personal accounts of combat fire-fights in the jungle and countless night ambush patrols that often ended up in very close-quarter shoot-outs in the darkness of open rice-paddies. It goes on to detail actual combat insertions of troops via helicopter that, on at least one occassion, resulted in a vicious combat fire-fight that began as the troops alit from the helicopters. In military "parlance", this was known as a "Hot LZ". The book also offers occassional insights into the extreme mental and physical toll that war takes on combat infantrymen.

Author: Richard Wright
ISBN-10: 1449030262
ISBN-13: 9781449030261
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2010
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d