The 23rd ARVN Infantry Division and its American advisers were sent to defend the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands. Almost all of the American forces had already withdrawn from Vietnam except for a small group of American advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces. The Unbeatable.In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive.

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Modern History – Annotated Bibliography.helps tell this true story of another understated military success by the allied forces of South Vietnam and the United States. The South Vietnamese soldiers and their American advisors fought valiantly at Kontum to crush the North Vietnamese invasion. McKenna’s book provides useful information on the Battle of Kontum, and gives readers some much-needed insight into the points of views of the ARVN and their U.S. forces as part of Nixon’s “Vietnamization” policy, Wettemann’s review of Kontum gives coverage of the various stages of the battle, all the way up to the ARVN’s successful elimination of the NVA from the city.Īs an academic resource, Wettemann’s review of Thomas P. Opening with the steady departure of U.S. The brunt of the fighting took place in the last two weeks in May of 1972, where, in the words of Wettemann, “… a single ARVN division held off the equivalent of three divisions of North Vietnamese soldiers…”Ī concise summary of McKenna’s book is presented in Wettemann’s source. forces still in Vietnam, foil another attempt by the communists to overtake the South. Also taking place during the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive in the spring of 1972, the Battle of Kontum saw the South Vietnamese, with the support of the few U.S. provides a review of McKenna’s book, offering some valuable insight into yet another military achievement by the ARVN and their U.S. allies would once again ward off an invading NVA force three times their size. His book provides a firsthand account of the fighting at Kontum, where the ARVN and their remaining U.S. drawdown in 1972, McKenna was still fighting alongside the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), taking on the invading North Vietnamese Army (NVA) at the Battle of Kontum. McKenna served in the Vietnam War as Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Review of Kontum: The Battle to Save South Vietnam, by Thomas P. Photograph via Steve Shepard/The Battle of Kontum

Kontum by Thomas McKenna