Vietnam Bao Chi: Warriors of Word and Film

This is the front and back cover of Marc Yablonka’s book. USMCCCA member Bob Bayer (left) and Stanton Pratt (Division of the Army Special Photographic Office). The back cover photos are of members Steve Stibbens and Dale Dye.

Recently, associate member Marc Yablonka sent us his book, Vietnam Bao Chi: Warriors of Word and Film

Marc Phillip Yablonka
Military Journalist & Author

Here is an excerpt from the book jacket:
While a plethora of books exists about and by the civilian media who covered the Vietnam War, Vietnam Bao Chi is the first book that reveals the plodding through the Vietnam jungle mud carried out by American soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose job it also was to record the conflict. Along with their weapons and 50-pound rucksacks, they recorded the battles with still or TV cameras, pens and pads of paper. Theirs was a different mission than that of their civilian counterparts. They were tasked with showing the bravery and the good that was accomplished by U.S. troops in a long, hard-fought war.

“I always understood that I was participating in something historical, something larger than any life I’d led up to that time. I was learning from first-hand experience that in combat you can see the entire range of human emotion and behavior … from the very best to the very worst. That fascinated me and I never lost interest in it,” said writer/actor/film maker Marine Captain (ret.) Dale Dye, who was wounded in Hue during the Tet Offensive.

This never-before-told story of what the combat correspondents and photographers encountered in Vietnam will fascinate readers, Vietnam veterans,historians, journalists and journalism students alike.

Available through:
https://www.casematepublishers.com and https://warstoriespress.com