Resources used for this series:

Lima-6: A Marine Company Commander in Vietnam, by Col. R.D. Camp with Eric Hammel (Atheneum, New York, 1989).

Ambush Valley: I Corps, 1967--The Story of a Marine Infantry Battalion's Battle for Survival, by Eric Hammel (Presidio Press, Novato, Calif., 1990).

Semper Fi Vietnam: From Danang to the DMZ; Marine Corps Campaigns, 1965-1975, by Edward F. Murphy (Presidio Press, 1997).

U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1966: An Expanding War, by Jack Shulimson (History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington D.C., 1982).

U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1967: Fighting the North Vietnamese, by Maj. Gary L. Telfer USMC, Lt. Col. Lane Rogers USMC, and V. Keith Fleming Jr. (History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington D.C., 1984).

U.S. Marines in Vietnam, 1968: The Defining Year, by Jack Shulimson, Lt. Col. Leonard A. Blasiol USMC, Charles R. Smith, and Capt. David A. Dawson USMC (History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington D.C., 1997).

The Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1973: An Anthology and Annotated Bibliography, Second Edition (History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington D.C., 1985).

The Battle for Khe Sanh, by Capt. Moyers S. Shore II (History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Washington D.C., 1991).

The U.S. Marine Corps Story, by J. Robert Moskin (McGraw-Hill, 1987).

Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and The Lies That Led to Vietnam, by H.R. McMaster (HarperCollins, 1997).

Vietnam: A History, by Stanley Karnow (Penguin, revised 1997).