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The 7th Infantry Regiment: Combat in an Age of Terror: The Korean War Through the Present
The 7th Infantry Regiment Combat in an Age of Terror The Korean War Through the Present
Author: John C. McManus
ISBN-13: 9780765303127
ISBN-10: 0765303124
Publication Date: 4/14/2009
Pages: 416
Edition: 1 Reprint
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Publisher: Forge Books
Book Type: Paperback
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This is the first volume of two, the next one covered the War of 1812 through WWI, this Army unit being one of the oldest, their motto being 'willing and able.'
The author aims to share with his readers 'what combat was like for the generations of men who served in the unit.' This is not a regimental history, but McManus has done his work in various archives and found those who served to be generous in granting him interviews.
It starts with 'fighting so hard and frantically' for a hill in Korea after being not much more than a skeleton unit when sent to Japan, the hard fighting in Vietnam, and then the crash into incompetence of the post-Vietnam army that General Creighton Abrams dealt with. Kosovo and the two Gulf Wars are told with a large input from veterans. Notes, bibliography, and indexes.