Operation Wappen: A War That Never Was

This is a short story spanning two years from 1956 to 1958. It includes the authors Marine Corps service as a Second Lieutenant artillery forward observer attached to Third Battalion Sixth Marine Regiment led by Colonel Austin C. Shifty Shofner (one of only nine men ever to escape a Japanese prisoner of war camp). It describes the maturation of Phase III warfarethe landing by helicopter of an intact infantry battalion ready to fight behind enemy lines (Operation Deep Water) and the beginnin...