There’s a new book out about combat correspondents and photographers who served in the US Military in Vietnam titled “Vietnam Bao Chi: Warriors of Word and Film.” The book contains stories from several Navy Photojournalists including: Ron Gorman, Mac McCloskey, Terry Lang, and Chip Maury. Here’s a link to the first three chapters if you are interested in checking it out. https://textcafe.co/books/12AsIBk/?1545073941244#/
New Book From Capt Marty Shelton
Retired Navy Captain, and NANP Life Member, S. Martin Shelton (aka Marty Shelton) recently released another book. Below is a short except from that book. All of his books are available on Amazon. The Panay Incident(A roman à clef) It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon on this twelfth of December, 1937. The American gunboat USS Panay plows the slow-moving waters of the Yangtze off Nanking—China’s capital. Chief Radioman Matthew Marne is transmitting his ship’s movement message to Commander Asiatic Fleet. The Panay patrols China’s rivers to protect American interests in the chaos that engulfs the Middle Kingdom. Today, the Japanese army has fought to the gates of Nanking. The Japanese bomb explodes dead center atop the wheelhouse. Fire, shrapnel, and wood […]