Research Catalog

Title

Seabee 71 in Chu Lai : memoir of a Navy journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967 / David H. Lyman.

Author

Lyman, David H., 1939-

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

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Details

Description

x, 230 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By the summer of 1967 he found himself with a SeaBee unit on a beach in Chu Lai. A reporter in civilian life, he was assigned to Military Construction Battalion 71 as a photojournalist, documenting the lives of the hard-working and harder-drinking U.S. Navy SeaBees as they engineered the infrastucture of war-roads, runways, heliports and base camps for troops on the edges of the conflict. He was also shot at, almost blown up by a road mine, spent nights in a mortar pit as rockets bombarded a nearby Marine runway, and rode along 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 his memoir."--

Alternative Title

• Memoir of a Navy journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967
• Seabee Seventy One in Chu Lai

Subject

• Lyman, David H., 1939-
• United States. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 71 > History
• United States. Navy. Seabees > Biography
• United States. Navy. Seabees
• Vietnam War (1961-1975)
• 1900-1999
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives, American
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Journalism, Military
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Regimental histories > United States
• Photojournalists > Vietnam > Biography
• Journalism, Military
• Photojournalists
• Regimental histories
• Chu Lai (Vietnam) > History, Military > 20th century
• United States
• Vietnam
• Vietnam > Chu Lai

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.
• Military history.
• Personal narratives – American.
• Autobiographies.
• Personal narratives.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

All This to avoid the Draft? -- Off to Sea, with a Camera -- I'm going to be a Seabee -- Training for Combat Duty -- Waiting to Deploy -- Hello, Vietnam! -- Life in This 'bee Hive -- The battalion -- The 'bees get to Work -- Close Calls Come in many Sizes -- outside the Wire -- The vietnamese People -- Civic action Program -- Putting the Pieces Together -- The end is in Sight -- The Last month in 'nam.

ISBN

• 9781476678443
• 1476678448
• 9781476636887 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019040785
• 40029619858

OCLC

• on1091587326
• SCSB-14080112

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library