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Originally Posted by shouldazagged
A superb book about the early stages of the Korean War, with a similar title, is David Halberstam's The Coldest Winter. Very gripping reading.
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Second that. This book is just outstanding.
I have a good friend who was a company commander, then battalion commander, in Viet Nam. He eventually retired with two stars. He isn’t really a very gunny guy, but he tells me he carried a .38 M&P in preference to the 1911. He also carried an M3 “grease gun,” and his RTO carried a semiauto shotgun of some sort unknown to him. I always thought it interesting that neither of them cared to carry the M16.