Call Sign - Cat's Paw 4-DVD Video Set - Frank Ford - This 4-DVD set contains some 250 video clips, 2,000 still photos and graphics, and a 40-song soundtrack. It is approximately 6 hours long. About half the video is on the Crazy Cats, 509th RRGP and ASA. The other half is on Vietnam 'lifestyle' and historical background. New Price! NOW $35, including shipping. Payment after delivery. Order a 2nd Copy for $15 if ordered at same time, if ordered later please add extra $5 for shipping. Contact Frank Ford at: fford@loxinfo.co.th for more ordering information. More details to follow on this offering.

Stay Safe, Buddy - John Cheek "A Story of Humor and Horror from the Korean War," is based on the author's personal experiences. Most of the characters are based on real people and many of the actions happened exactly as described. The book has been as high as #11 on the best-selling list at amazon.com for the 8,000+ books listed there from my publisher. Signed copies are available from me with my author discount. Contact me at jcharlescheek@juno.com. Payment by personal check, money order or through Pay Pal. Book also available at www.publishamerica.com, Booksamillion.com, BarnesandNoble.com or by telephone at 1-240-529-1031.

Soldier Boy : At Play in the ASA - Tim Bazzett In 1962 when Tim Bazzett graduated from high school he'd had enough of academia and classroom drudgery, so he joined the army and received an education he'd never imagined. Perhaps one of the most unlikely and inept citizen-soldiers since Gomer Pyle, Tim somehow survives the terrors and tribulations of basic training at "Fort Lost-in-the-Woods, Misery," and after further training in the mysteries of Morse code in Massachusetts and Maryland, the small-town innocent is launched overseas and into the larger world. In Turkey he finds himself a link in the outermost defenses of America during a Cold War he only imperfectly understands. There he sees poverty and hatred in the faces of children and is forced to confront his own faults and inner demons. In Germany, no longer quite so innocent, he chases girls and dreams of being a rock star. At the heart are the characters, friends he makes along the way. For this is ultimately a book about friendship and about growing up. Available later this month (Aug. '05). $16. Contact Tim directly for sale info. reedcityboy@net-port.com or be first in line. Send check or money order payable to: TJ Bazzett - PO Box 282 Reed City, MI 49677-0282 or check out www.rathole.com/soldierboy

The Footlocker - A Christmas Story by the author of Past Sins Free Download

Past Sins - Don Ecker America was fighting a Cold War against the Soviets. It was the CIA versus the KGB, a covert war fought to contain the struggle so that real war would never break out. The year was 1965, just 3 years after the nation had retreated from the nuclear nightmare that almost occurred over Soviet missiles in Cuba. When the CIA found a supernatural creature (thought to be mythological) in Hungary, they thought they had won. It was a creature they thought could be contained and controlled... one they thought they could bend to their will... a creature so horrifying, it was only spoken about in whispers, so even the walls wouldn?t hear. But, they forgot one important thing ... they forgot that you can never dance with the Devil unless he calls the tune. Now, at the dawn of the 21st Century, it has escaped... and the real nightmare has only just begun. - Amazon.com "I served at FS Sobe, Okinawa and then shipped over to 8th RR Phu Bai in 1971. Was at Alpha 4 when we were overrun on 30 March 1972 at the start of the Easter Offensive." Available on amazon.com at: Past Sins or as an "e-book" Contact Don for more details. decker0726@comcast.net

Memoirs of a Bangkok Warrior - Dean Barrett The setting is Bangkok, Thailand. The time is the mid-sixties. And the events are incredible. Join Whore House Charlie, Sgt. Jigaboo, Bumbles, Blinky, Agent Orange, Corporal Napalm, Hogbody, Butterball, Good Pork Betty, the Betel Nut queen, Noy the Laundry Girl, Corporal Comatose, Doc Spitz and Lieutenant Pearshape in the wackiest adventures of the Vietnam or any other war era. A M*A*S*H-type novel set in Thailand during the Vietnam War. This novel was optioned for film four times & came close to being the M*A*S*H for the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, "close" only counts in horseshoes, grenades and atomic weapons. Some movie producers said it was "hilarious but uneven." I pointed out that so is the Old Testament & that got published & made into a movie. Unfortunately, that line of reasoning got me nowhere. Available on amazon.com at: Memoirs of a Bangkok Warrior or contact Dean himself at: deanbarr@loxinfo.co.th

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Freedom's Finest - John Borkowitz - I served with the ASA in Korea during the Vietnam war. I have produced a 30th Anniversary litho print in honor of all who served during the Vietnam era through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. I have presented a few, one to a Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient, a former POW, V.A. Regional Center and also V.A. hospital both in Milwaukee, WI. I also placed one at the wall in Washington D.C. last Memorial Day. If you are interested please let me know and I will send more information. jbork@execpc.com $49.00 (Includes Postage/Handling) Pay Pal to: jbork@execpc.com

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The Blankenship Solution - Thomas F. Kistner - Japan

Rockabilly, Radio and WWI - Joe M. Leonard, Jr. - WWII

Fiddler's Moon - J. Ronald Drew - Vietnam

C TRICK - Sort of a Memoir - Don Cooper - Berlin

Crazyhead - John Klawitter - Vietnam

TANS - Various Authors - Various Subjects

One To Count Cadence - James Crumley - Philippines/Vietnam

The Most Secret War - James L. Gilbert - Vietnam

TOP SECRET MISSIONS - John E. Malone - 404th USASA SOD Airborne

DEAREST ANGEL - Elaine Cochrane - Widow of 1st Lt. John F. Cochrane KIA

Books I've heard of but not read .... yet

Phu Bai - Paul Bitit - A Vietnam War Story It is June 1967, and the United States' military involvement in South Vietnam is nearing its zenith. As the war rachets up, John Murphy and Charles Van Dyke of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division investigate the murder of an American soldier at Phu Bai. War intrudes as the two investigators build their case against the most likely suspect. But a bizarre twist turns it into an unusual manhunt in the middle of a war zone. $13.95 Available from amazon.com more info: betitpaul@yahoo.com "A Vietnam War Story," is itself a distraction. This novel is no "war story," at least in the usual sense. The warfare mostly functions as a dangerous setting, as a noisy counterpoint to silent analytical brooding, and as omnipresent as the weather or any other natural force. Oddly enough, the narrative relates a detective story that could have taken place anywhere in the world." - Amazon.com

	Letters Home - An American In China, 1939-1944 - John Hlavacek From 1939 to 1944, John Hlavacek taught English in Japanese - occupied China, followed by stints with the Red Cross, military attache's office, and United Press. After graduating from Carleton College in 1939, John sailed for China to teach English in Fenchow, Shansi Province. After training in Chinese John traveled to the mission compound in what was then Japanese- occupied China. John taught English in Shansi & Szechwan, then took a job driving Red Cross trucks to deliver medical supplies to foreign mission hospitals. When Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor he joined the American Military Attache's office in China's wartime capital of Chungking. In 1944 he joined United Press as a war correspondent. John continued his foreign reporting from India, Jamaica & Cuba. He was an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations during the 1957-58 academic year, studying at the Russian Institute of Columbia Univ. John resides with his wife, Pegge, in Omaha, Nebraska. More Hlavacek family history can be found in two books written by Pegge: Diapers on a Dateline and Alias Pegge Parker. Both books are available through iUniverse. Diapers on a Dateline tells the story of Pegge and John's family life in India from 1952 to 1957. Pegge continued to write while raising five children, interviewing a fascinating array of celebrities. Spanning a time period from 1941 to 1961, Alias Pegge Parker includes a bonus: four chapters of Diapers that turned up after book was published. $17.95 Available from iuniverse.com ISBN: 0-595-33348-6 John, working as a reporter for local Omaha TV station found me (VERN) in Vietnam and helped me send Christmas greetings home to my folks and friends. I located him in 1995 and helped him do first draft on a book similar to this. A professional writter produced this one.
	Into Tibet - Thomas Laird - The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa. "For over fifty years the CIA has closely guarded the identity of the first agent killed in the line of duty -- the unnamed First Star on the outfit's Wall of Honor. That agent was Douglas Mackiernan. His unprecedented atomic intelligence operations helped shape both Central Asia and the CIA as we know them today. His work remains so sensitive that the Agency, even now, will neither confirm nor deny his existence. A riveting expose of international intrigue, INTO TIBET reveals the extraordinary still-classified missions that sent Mackiernam and his partner, Frank Bessac, into the heart of the Cold War." - Liner notes from book. Webmaster note: Doug Mackiernam was first husband of Peggy Hlavacek noted in book review above. I highly recommend this book all the way to the tragic ending! - ASA LIVES! $15.00 New, available at www.amazon.com or used book sellers at a discount.
	The Book of HONOR - Ted Gup - Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA - The Story of Heros and Secrets "In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall into which seventy-one stars are carved-each representating an agent who has died in the line of duty. At the base of the wall lies "The Book of Honor," in which the names of these agents are inscribed--or at least thirty-five of them. Beside the dates of the other thirty-six, there are no names. The identity of these 'nameless stars' has been one of the CIA's most closely guarded secrets for the fifty-three years of the agency's existence. Even the family members are told little-in some cases, the agency has denied the fact that the deceased were covert operatives at all." - From book cover liner notes. Webmaster note: The first chapter is entitled: "The Forgotten Man" --- Doug Mackiernam as mentioned in above book review. was that man! $10.50 New, available at www.amazon.com or used book sellers at a discount.