| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By the summer of 1967 he found himself with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian life, he was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a photojournalist, documenting the lives of the hard-working and harder-drinking U.S. Navy SeaBees as they engineered the infrastucture of war-roads, runways, heliports and base camps for troops on the edges of the conflict. He was also shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway, and rode along on convoys through Viet Cong territory to photograph villages outside "The Wire." The stories and photographs Lyman published as editor of the battalion's newspaper, The Transit, form the basis of his memoir."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
All This to avoid the Draft? -- Off to Sea, with a Camera -- I'm going to be a Seabee -- Training for Combat Duty -- Waiting to Deploy -- Hello, Vietnam! -- Life in This 'bee Hive -- The battalion -- The 'bees get to Work -- Close Calls Come in many Sizes -- outside the Wire -- The vietnamese People -- Civic action Program -- Putting the Pieces Together -- The end is in Sight -- The Last month in 'nam. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lyman, David H., 1939-
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United States. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 71 -- History.
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United States. Navy. Seabees -- Biography.
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United States. Navy. Seabees. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Vietnam War (1961-1975) |
| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives -- American.
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| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalism, Military.
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Journalism, Military. |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
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Photojournalists -- Vietnam -- Biography.
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Photojournalists. |
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Vietnam. |
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Chu Lai (Vietnam) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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Regimental histories. |
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United States. |
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Vietnam -- Chu Lai. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiography.
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Personal Narrative.
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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History.
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Military history.
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Title |
Memoir of a Navy journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967 |
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Seabee Seventy One in Chu Lai |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lyman, David H., 1939- Seabee 71 in Chu Lai. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019] 9781476678443 (DLC) 2019040785 (OCoLC)1091587326 |
| ISBN |
9781476636887 (electronic book) |
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1476636885 (electronic book) |
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9781476678443 |
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1476678448 |
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