Overview
" Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By summer 1967 he was with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian life, Lyman was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a photojournalist. He documented the lives of the hard-working and hard-drinking SeaBees as they engineered roads, runways, heliports and base camps for the troops. The author was shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, and spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway. He rode on convoys through Viet Cong territory to photograph villages outside ""The Wire."" The stories and photographs Lyman published as editor of the battalion's newspaper, The Transit, form the basis of this memoir."
Full Product Details
Author: David H. Lyman
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9781476678443
ISBN 10: 1476678448
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 14 November 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
This well-researched and well-written story of his seven-month in-country tour chronicles the projects, people, and adventures of his unit. Lyman draws deeply from his notes he took at the time, as well from the many photos he took to construct a compact book that centers on the story of what the Seabees built and maintained in support of the U.S. war effort. This is a refreshing offering...quite readable and provides another perspective on the Vietnam War --The VVA Veteran.
This well-researched and well-written story of his seven-month in-country tour chronicles the projects, people, and adventures of his unit. Lyman draws deeply from his notes he took at the time, as well from the many photos he took to construct a compact book that centers on the story of what the Seabees built and maintained in support of the U.S. war effort. This is a refreshing offering...quite readable and provides another perspective on the Vietnam War --The VVA Veteran Through Lyman, we realize the uniqueness of Navy Seabees and their contributions to the war effort in Vietnam. ... Lyman's memoir is unique among memoirs of military service. ...highly recommended -- Army University Press A compelling and chronological retelling of [Lyman's] memories --Sightings.
This well-researched and well-written story of his seven-month in-country tour chronicles the projects, people, and adventures of his unit. Lyman draws deeply from his notes he took at the time, as well from the many photos he took to construct a compact book that centers on the story of what the Seabees built and maintained in support of the U.S. war effort. This is a refreshing offering...quite readable and provides another perspective on the Vietnam War --The VVA Veteran; Through Lyman, we realize the uniqueness of Navy Seabees and their contributions to the war effort in Vietnam. ... Lyman's memoir is unique among memoirs of military service. ...highly recommended -- Army University Press; A compelling and chronological retelling of [Lyman's] memories --Sightings.
Author Information
David H. Lyman is a writer, photographer and entrepreneur. He left the Navy to become a newspaper and magazine editor. In 1973, he founded The Maine Photographic Workshops, and built his summer school into an international conservatory for the world’s photographers, filmmakers, writers and media producers. It is located in Rockport, Maine, and continues today as MaineMedia.edu.
