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How a major Vietnam battle was hidden from the public for decades with Ed Sherwood

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Ed Sherwood Courage Under Fire Tam Ky Vietnam

How a major Vietnam battle was hidden from the public for decades with Ed Sherwood

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Ed Sherwood led an infantry platoon at Tam Ky in Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry, fighting with the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and was wounded in action on June 2, 1969. He served as an infantry officer until retiring from active duty as a Lieutenant Colonel. He wrote a book about the battle he was a part of and we spoke about the war, the book, and the battle. Courage Under Fire: The 101st Airborne’s Hidden Battle at Tam Ky (Casemate, 2021)

1:03 – Ed talks about why he joined the Army.

1:56 – Ed talks about whether he expected to go to Vietnam.

2:40 – Ed talks about his plans to write a book.

3:28 – Ed talks about what he focused on in the book.

4:55 – Ed describes where Tam Ky is.

5:51 – Ed talks about the weather in Vietnam.

8:26 – Ed talks about how spread out the companies and platoons were.

12:02 – Ed talks about his experience before the battle.

14:16 – Ed talks about why he called it the hidden battle.

19:02 – Ed talks about how they overcame being under strength.

23:31 – Ed talks about their tactics in the field.

26:37 – Ed talks about the bunker defenses.

27:00 – Ed talks about the terrain and tunnels of the battle site.

28:15 – Ed talks about the courage of his men.

33:42 – Ed talks about targeting the enemy.

36:38 – Ed talks about how to decide who takes the risks.

39:10 – Ed talks about choosing your pointman.

41:17 – Ed talks about the medics.

43:25 – Ed talks about his injury.

44:29 – Ed talks about what he thought when he was badly hit.

47:07 – Ed talks about the E-5 who took over after he was wounded.

48:00 – Ed talks about the difficulty of keeping in touch with his guys when he went to Japan.

50:09 – Ed talks about his Army career.

50:48 – Ed talks about how few people stayed in the Army after Vietnam.

52:10 – Ed talks about the volunteers in the 101st.

53:39 – Ed talks about whether the war was worth it.

57:43 – Ed talks about recognition and feelings about the war.

1:00:20 – Ed talks about air mobility and how they went to battle.

1:01:51 – Ed talks about his research into the battle records.

1:06:35 – Ed talks about inaccurate the records can be. He also talks about one of his guys who had been captured.

1:13:48 – Ed talks about wondering why they were suddenly pulled off the hill after the battle.

1:19:34 – Ed talks about the emotion of writing the book.

1:21:11 – Ed talks about the work he put into the book.

1:25:33 – Ed talks about instances where people or groups didn’t look good.

1:30:18 – Ed talks about enemy POWs and dead.

1:31:36 – Ed talks about his feelings about the enemy.

Links of interest

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https://www.casematepublishers.com/courage-under-fire.html#.YId3x6EpCM8

Modern horror films with David Church https://wp.me/p7CDU9-59X

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For more “Military History Inside Out” please follow me at www.warscholar.org, on Facebook at warscholar, on twitter at Warscholar, on youtube at warscholar1945 and on Instagram @crisalvarezswarscholar. Or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.

Guests: Ed Sherwood

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, Casemate, American history, Modern War, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam War,

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How the French Royal Navy used privateers to augment their naval operations with Henning Hillmann

Henning Hillmann is professor of economic and organizational sociology at the University of Mannheim. He wrote a book on the privateers of France in the long 18th century in order to understand what motivated these privateers and how they organized themselves. We spoke about the book, the privateers, and the French Royal Navy. The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime (Columbia University Press, 2021)

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, videos, Columbia University Press, age of sail, 18th century war, Naval Warfare, France,

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How the French Royal Navy used privateers to augment their naval operations with Henning Hillmann

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Henning Hillmann Privateers saint Malo

How the French Royal Navy used privateers to augment their naval operations with Henning Hillmann

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Henning Hillmann is professor of economic and organizational sociology at the University of Mannheim. He wrote a book on the privateers of France in the long 18th century in order to understand what motivated these privateers and how they organized themselves. We spoke about the book, the privateers, and the French Royal Navy. The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime (Columbia University Press, 2021)

0:49 – Henning talks about how he got into studying privateering in France.

4:08 – Jenning talks about the region and time range he focused on.

5:43 – Henning talks about privateering in peace and war.

11:36 – Henning talks about economic pressures to go to war.

15:17 – Henning talks about how merchants protect themselves during times of war.

17:42 – Henning talks about relations between privateers and the French Royal Navy.

20:39 – Henning talks about the nationalities of these crews.

24:01 – Henning talks about how the privateers armed themselves.

26:14 – Henning talks about how the privateers fared in various wars.

28:42 – Henning talks about privateer involvement in naval battles.

32:10 – Henning talks about the destruction of enemy merchants.

35:06 – Henning talks about the French Royal Navy taking prize ships.

37:17 – Henning talks about where the privateers operated.

38:40 – Henning talks about cases where privateers would join together to capture ships.

39:19 – Henning talks about the weapons the privateers used.

41:03 – Henning talks about what happened to captured crews.

43:14 – Henning talks about the low ranking sailors.

44:10 – Henning talks about the prize courts.

45:47 – Henning talks about where the prize courts were.

46:52 – Henning talks about the research he did for the book.

51:50 – Henning talks about holding the historical documents.

53:12 – Henning talks about wishing he could have figured out the profits of these ventures.

54:52 – Henning talks about the detective work of history.

56:33- Henning talks about how hard the sailor lives were.

58:14 – Henning talks about the books’ goals and about Saint-Malo.

1:03:02 – Henning talks about what Saint-Malo is like now.

1:05:43 – Henning talks about a museum at Saint-Malo.

1:06:27 – Henning talks about a historic ship at the time.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/3efdp3n

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-corsairs-of-saint-malo/9780231180399

Suparno Banerjee and the development of Indian science fiction https://wp.me/p7CDU9-59G

Cesare Barbieri and the search for extra-terrestrial life http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/860

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For more “Military History Inside Out” please follow me at www.warscholar.org, on Facebook at warscholar, on twitter at Warscholar, on youtube at warscholar1945 and on Instagram @crisalvarezswarscholar. Or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.

Guests: Henning Hillmann

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, Columbia University Press, age of sail, 18th century war, Naval Warfare, France,

Check out this book here https://amzn.to/3efdp3n

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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