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riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually in cloth bandoliers, adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum. When it was available, they also carried M-16 maintenance gear—rods and steel brushes and swabs and tubes of LSA oil—all of which weighed about a pound.
Oct 26, 2021 · 236 pages ; 20 cm. A sequence of stories about the Vietnam War, this book also has the unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. It aims to summarize America's involvement in Vietnam, and her coming to terms with that experience in the years that followed.
May 19, 2010 · The things they carried : a work of fiction : O'Brien, Tim, 1946- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. O'Brien, Tim, 1946- Publication date. 1991. Topics. Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Publisher. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; bannedbooks; printdisabled; inlibrary. Contributor.
What they carried was partly a function of rank, partly of field specialty. As a first lieutenant and platoon leader, Jimmy Cross carried a compass, maps, code books, binoculars, and a .45-caliber pistol that weighed 2.9 pounds fully loaded.
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien. HarperCollins Publishers, 2024 - Fiction - 304 pages. A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of...
Oct 13, 2009 · The Things They Carried. A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a...
