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Special Operations
In the early hours of April 12, 1970, the NVA brutally attacked the Special Forces A-team
camp at Dak Pek, seizing more than half the base -- including the high ground and its
106mm recoilless rifle -- plus the surrounding valley and mountains. Twenty
kilometres south, at Dak Seang, another huge concentration of NVA was attempting to
overrun the Special Forces camp there. Now it was time for the Americans to
fight back.
With gritty honesty, SF veteran -- five tours in
Vietnam and Thailand -- Leigh Wade recounts the weeks of carnage, courage, and sacrifice
in which the men of Dak Pek carried out bunker-to-bunker mop-up operations and heroic
uphill counterattacks to reclaim their base. With hundreds of corpses littering the
camp, it was truly a fight to the death -- a fight that proved just what Americans are
made of. . . .
About the Author
Leigh Wade was born in Perry, Oklahoma, in August 1942. His father was a
professional army officer, and the family moved around a lot. Leigh joined the
army in 1961, a week after he graduated high school. He spent most of the next ten
years with Special Forces units in Southeast Asia. He left the army in 1971 but
returned in 1982. He retired a sergeant first class in 1992.
He
is also the author of Tan Phu: Special Forces Team A-23 in Combat and The Protected Will
Never Know. He has two sons and a daughter and lives with his younger son in
Tucson.
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