Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Map of South Vietnam

Prologue

1 Flickering shadows

2 Eyes and ears

3 Blundering towards Rapid Fire

4 The Apaches of Black Virgin Mountain

5 Modus operandi and the Candy Bar Kid

6 Eagle flights and picnic outings

7 Uri and the Mannlicher Schoenauer

8 Just another day at the office

9 Sutras and a prelude of things to come

10 Predawn reminiscences

11 First contact

12 Marauder in deep shit

13 Smokey's dilemma

14 Who's eating who?

15 Saint to the rescue

16 A bomb-hole and Wolf's marigold

17 Saint and the jolly green frog

18 Deo and the legion of smiling faces

19 Rolling-stone alley and the Jack-in-the-box

20 Dust off for Wolf

21 Surviving a dance with the bear

22 Janis and John make way for Gritz's song

23 Battle of the Cao Lac Bo

24 A different army in a differen

About the Author

Stanley Krasnoff emigrated to Australia in 1949, after spending nine months in a refugee camp on the Philippines island of Tubabaoa. He has spent twenty-two years in the Australian Army seeing service in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam. His tour of duty in Vietnam included a stint with American Special Forces (green berets) where he worked for Bo Gritz, who in an earlier operation became the inspiration for Apocalypse Now, as a member of Project Rapid Fire.