Going After Cacciato

Going After Cacciato

Vietnam War

Billy Boy Watkins dies of fright (Ch. 5)

June 1968

Ch. 4-5

Paul Berlin arrives in Vietnam (Ch. 4)

June 3, 1968

Paul Berlin put into his terminal unit (Ch. 4)

June 9, 1968

Paul Berlin joins first platoon of Alpha Company (Ch. 4)

June 11, 1968

Oscar's Birthday (Ch. 5)

July, 1968

The men rest along Song Tra Bong River (Ch. 16)

July 1968 - August 1968

The men call home from Chu Lai (Ch. 24)

August 1968

Rudy Chassler is killed by a land mine (Ch. 16)

August 13, 1968

Bernie Lynn is shot in a tunnel and dies (Ch. 9 & 30)

September 1968

French Tucker is killed by a shot to the nose (Ch. 9 & 30)

September 1968

Lt. Sidney Martin is killed in the tunnels and Lt. Cordon takes over (Ch. 30)

September 1968

Men march to Lake Country (Ch. 27 & 30)

September 1968

Ready Mix is shot and killed in Lake Country (Ch. 22 & 30)

September 1968

The men travel from Vietnam to Laos in search of Cacciato (various chapters)

September 1968

Cacciato's Hill (Ch. 1)

October 1968

Buff is killed (Ch. 30)

November 1968

Pederson is killed in rice paddy (Ch. 11 & 20)

November 1968

Vaught leaves the war, and Ben Nystrom is sent home (Ch. 1)

November 1968

Paul Berlin's observation post in Quang Ngai (Ch. 1)

November 20, 1968