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Larry Gwin was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant out of Yale University in 1963. After two years with the 82d Airborne Division, he served as an advisor to a South Vietnamese Army battalion in the Mekong Delta before joining the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in September 1965. Assigned to Alpha Company, 2d Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment (A 2/7), he served as their executive officer for almost nine months. During that time, A 2/7 made more than forty-five combat assaults, fought in five major engagements, usually against North Vietnamese regulars, and suffered in excess of 70 percent casualties. Gwin returned from Vietnam... Read More

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Baptism
A Vietnam Memoir
Written by Larry Gwin

Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $7.99

A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in An Khe. There, in the hotly contested Central Highlands, he served... Read more >

Baptism
A Vietnam Memoir
Written by Larry Gwin

Format: eBook, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $5.99

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