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?David Sherman
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David Sherman
Knives in the Night
The Night Fighters, #1
Reeks: The Night Fighters
David Sherman
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From
1965
to
1971
the
United
States
Marines
in
Vietnam
ran
a
small,
little-known
operation
called
the
"Combined
Action
Program."
In
many
ways
what
CAP
did
was
similar
to
what
was
done
by
the
US
Army
Special
Forces,
the
famous
Green
Berets,
except
the
Marines
concentrated
most
of
their
effort
in
the
heavily
populated
coastal
lowlands
rather
than
the
sparcely
populated
highlands.
Most
CAP
units
consisted
of
a
Marine
rifle
squad
and
US
Navy
Medical
Corpsman,
and
a
Vietnamese
Popular
Forces
platoon
(roughly
equivilant
to
the
US
National
Guard,
but
with
less
prior
training
and
poorer
equipment),
and
were
commanded
by
a
Marine
sergeant
or
corporal.
Combined
Action
Platoons
were
frequently
semi-isolated
and
usually
independent
units.
There
has
been
very
little
written
about
them.
The
one
in
The
Night
Fighters
is
loosely
based
on
the
combat-outpost
type
of
CAP
I
served
in
during
the
spring
and
summer
of
1966.
To
my
knowledge,
this
was
the
first
fictional
treatment
of
a
CAP.KNIVES
IN
THE
NIGHT
introduces
the
Marines
of
CAP
Tango
Niner
and
the
Popular
Forces
of
Bun
Hou
village,
somewhere
deep
in
"Indian
Country."
The
Marines
and
Vietnamese
soon
find
themselves
pitted
against
Major
Nghu,
a
sadistic
North
Vietnamese
Army
officer
dedicated
to
wiping
out
the
Marines
and
subjugating
the
South
Vietnamese peasants.
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