Tiger Papa Three : memoir of a Combined Action Marine in Vietnam /

"The U.S. Marine Corps' Combined Action Program (CAP) in Vietnam was an enlightened gesture of strategic dissent. Recognizing that search-and-destroy operations were immoral and self-defeating and that the best hope for victory was "winning hearts and minds," the Corps stationed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palm, Edward Frederick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020
Jefferson, North Carolina : [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • The Identification
  • Palm and the Delaware Dream
  • My Great Expectations
  • Mixed Blessings
  • How It All Began
  • That Other Parris
  • The Sticking Point
  • Camp Lejeune
  • Delaware Revisited
  • An Enlightened Gesture of Dissent
  • Palm on the Supply Side
  • Deliverance
  • CAP School
  • Papa One Confidential
  • Flashback: The Girl I Left Behind
  • Tiger Papa Three
  • The Dramatis Personae
  • Blissful Ignorance
  • Flashback: My Great Expectations Revisited, July 1966
  • And the Rains Came!
  • vi Table of Contents
  • Hard Times
  • Deus ex Machina the Second
  • The Way We Were
  • Puff the Magic Dragon Comes to Call
  • Schism
  • Close Encounters of the Strange Kind
  • On Courage-Physical and Moral
  • Winning Hearts and Minds
  • Boys Will Be Boys-American and Vietnamese
  • The R & R Experience
  • The Fire Next Time-December 4, 1967
  • Confession Being Good for the Soul ...
  • Innocents Abroad
  • A Way You'll Never Be
  • Life Goes On
  • The Shape of Things to Come
  • Coming Home
  • Looking Back on Leaving
  • A Siren's Spell
  • "All the way with LBJ!"
  • Shelter from the Storm
  • A Chance Encounter with the Third Kind-of Girl
  • Palm at Penn
  • Men Without a Country
  • Vietnam and Modern Memory
  • The Identification
  • Palm and the Delaware Dream
  • My Great Expectations
  • Mixed Blessings
  • How It All Began
  • That Other Parris
  • The Sticking Point
  • Camp Lejeune
  • Delaware Revisited
  • An Enlightened Gesture of Dissent
  • Palm on the Supply Side
  • Deliverance
  • CAP School
  • Papa One Confidential
  • Flashback: The Girl I Left Behind
  • Tiger Papa Three
  • The Dramatis Personae
  • Blissful Ignorance
  • Flashback: My Great Expectations Revisited, July 1966
  • And the Rains Came!
  • vi Table of Contents
  • Hard Times
  • Deus ex Machina the Second
  • The Way We Were
  • Puff the Magic Dragon Comes to Call
  • Schism
  • Close Encounters of the Strange Kind
  • On Courage-Physical and Moral
  • Winning Hearts and Minds
  • Boys Will Be Boys-American and Vietnamese
  • The R&R Experience
  • The Fire Next Time-December 4, 1967
  • Confession Being Good for the Soul...
  • Innocents Abroad
  • A Way You'll Never Be
  • Life Goes On
  • The Shape of Things to Come
  • Coming Home
  • Looking Back on Leaving
  • A Siren's Spell
  • "All the way with LBJ!"
  • Shelter from the Storm
  • A Chance Encounter with the Third Kind-of Girl
  • Palm at Penn
  • Men Without a Country
  • Vietnam and Modern Memory