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Sign here for sacrifice : the untold story of the Third Battalion, 506th Airborne, Vietnam 1968 / Ian Gardner.

by Gardner, Ian (Historian), author.

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Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2023.

United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 506th. Battalion, 3rd -- History.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Regimental histories -- United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns.

9781472849427 (hardcover) :

1472849426 (hardcover)

304 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

"Salute the New Dawn": Reactivation - Fort Campbell, Kentucky -- "To the Limit and Beyond": Training for Vietnam -- "The Things We Cannot Change": Shipping Out -- "Only the Strong Survive": Orientation and Deployment - October 28-November 30, 1967 -- "The Dragon's Graveyard": Operation Rose - November 1967 -- "Battle Troopers": Operation Klamath Falls - December 1967 -- Badge of Courage": The Battle of the Knoll - January 2, 1968 -- "The Aftermath": January 3-8, 1968 -- "Beer, Bang, and Boom Boom": Phan Rang - January 9-16, 1968 -- "Living in the Dirt": Landing Zone Berry and Phan Thiet -- "We Stand Together": January 22-February 1, 1968 -- "Blood Trail 556": The Battle of the Van Ta House - February 2, 1968 -- "Into the Sunrise": February 3-5, 1968 -- "Death Patrol to Disneyland": The Battle of Phu Bon and Beyond - February 6, 1968 -- "Take it to the Bridge": The Second Battle of Phan Thiet - February 18-23, 1968 -- "Red Sand": The Battle of the Ca Ty River - February 19, 1968 -- "After the Storm": The Bowl - February/March 1968 -- "Watch and Shoot": April 1968 -- "Let the Light Shine": Operation MR-6, April 26-May 16, 1968 -- "Return to the Graveyard": Operation Rockne Gold, May 19-27, 1968 -- "The Bitterest Pill": Operation Banjo Royce and Beyond - June/July 1968 -- "The Protected Will Never Know": August-October 1968.

Brigadier General Salve Matheson's idea was to create an 800-strong battalion of airborne volunteers in the same legendary "Currahee" spirit that had defined the volunteers of 1942. The man he chose to lead them was John Geraci, who would mold this young brotherhood into a highly cohesive and motivated force. In December 1967, the battalion was sent into the Central Highlands of Lam Dong Province. Geraci and his men began their Search and Destroy patrols, which coincided with the North Vietnamese build-up to the Tet Offensive and was a brutal introduction to the reality of a dirty, bloody war. Gardner reveals how it was here that the tenacious volunteers made their mark, just like their predecessors had done in Normandy, and the battalion was ultimately awarded a Valorous Unit Citation. This book shows how and why this unit was deserving of that award, recounting their daily sanguinary struggle in the face of a hostile environment and a determined enemy.

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