Bibliograph

The court-martial of Corporal Nutting, a memoir of the Vietnam War, John R. Nutting ; foreword by Ray M. Franklin

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The court-martial of Corporal Nutting, a memoir of the Vietnam War, John R. Nutting ; foreword by Ray M. Franklin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The court-martial of Corporal Nutting

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

892800165

Responsibility statement

John R. Nutting ; foreword by Ray M. Franklin

Sub title

a memoir of the Vietnam War

Summary

John Nutting is nineteen years old in 1966. Raised in small-town Idaho, to a family that could trace its military roots back to the Revolutionary War, Nutting knows he's going to fight the war as a Marine. On the day of his high school graduation, he swears into the US Marine Corps and boards the plane to boot camp.All too soon he's in the jungle, a greenhorn member of <U+0147>F" Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. Firing on an unseen enemy, burying friends killed by booby traps, and struggling with the notion that many people back home were totally opposed to the war, Nutting begins to wond

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