R. Mike Womack Collection (1480) Finding Aid
Collection Item Number: 14800000000
- Collection
- R. Mike Womack Collection
- Association
- FSB Ripcord Association
- Title
- Finding Aid
- Linear Feet
- 2.5
- Pages
- 1
- Language(s)
- English
- Dates
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Creation: 07 January 2005
Scope and Contents
Books and VHS tapes concerning the Vietnam War, photocopies of programs from a Memorial Service for Lt. J. Robert Kalsu and a listing of the members of C Company 2nd Battalion of the 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment Association.Biographical / Historical
R. Mike Womack was born in Springfield, Illinois in 1949. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1969 Womack arrived in Vietnam on 13 April 1970 and assigned as a radioman in Company C, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne. While in Vietnam Womack was involved in the Sanctuary Counter Offensive and the Battle for Firebase Ripcord. Womack was wounded on 27 June 1970 and returned to the United States. Womack remained in the Army until December of 1977, departing as a Staff Sergeant. Womack has been awarded the following medals and citations: Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign, and Civil Action Medal (1st Class).- 93
- Books
Acceptable Loss: An Infantry Soldier's Perspective by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
The Advisor by John L. Cook
Air War - Vietnam by Frank Harvey
Alpha Strike Vietnam: The Navy's Air War, 1964-1973 by Jeffrey L. Levinson, (2 copies)
America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 by George Herring
And Brave Men, Too by Timothy S. Lowry
Battles in the Monsoon by S.L.A. Marshall
Beyond Survival by Gerald Coffee
Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-Five Months in Vietnam by John Leppelman
Blue's Bastards by Randy Herrod
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic
Brennan's War: Vietnam, 1965-1969 by Matthew Brennan
The Bridge at Dong Ha by John Grider Miller
Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam by Stanley Goff and Robert Sanders with Clark Smith
Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace by William Broyles, Jr.
Brown Water, Black Berets by Thomas J. Cutler
Chained Eagle by Everett Alvarez, Jr. and Anthony S. Pitch
Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us by Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller
Code of Honor by John A. Dramesi
A Code to Keep by Ernest C. Brace
Combat Medic - Vietnam by Craig Roberts
Da Nang Diary by Colonel Tom Yarborough
Dispatches by Michael Herr
The Easter Offensive: Vietnam, 1972 by G.H. Turley
Everything We Had by Al Santoli
The Eyes of the Eagle: F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968 by Gary A. Linderer
A Field of Innocence by Jack Estes
Five Years to Freedom by James N. Rowe
Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington by Jack Broughton
Green Knight, Red Morning by Richard E. Ogden
The Grunts by Charles R. Anderson
Guns Up! by Johnnie M. Clark
H. Norman Schwarzkopf: Road to Triumph by M.E. Morris
Hamburger Hill by Samuel Zaffiri
Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart
Hell No We Won't Go! Resisting the Draft During the Vietnam War by Sherry Gershon Gottlieb
The Heroes Who Fell from Grace by Charles J. Patterson and G. Lee Tippin
The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War: Khe Sanh by Michael Ewing
The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War: Riverine Force by John Forbes and Robert Williams
In the Field of Fire, edited by Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann
Inside the VC and the NVA: The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Forces by Michael Lee Lanning and Dan Cragg
Into Cambodia: Spring Campaign, Summer Offensive, 1970 by Keith W. Nolan
The Killing Zone by Frederick Downs
The Korean War by Max Hastings
The Last Parallel: A Marine's War Journal by Martin Russ
Life on the Line by Philip D. Chinnery
Lima-6: A Marine Company Commander in Vietnam by Colonel R.D. Camp with Eric Hammel
Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months by Michael Clodfelter
The Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam
The Medal of Honor by Donald E. Zlotnik
Mounted Combat by General Donn A. Starry - Department of the Army, Vietnam Studies
My Secret War by Richard S. Drury
Nam by Mark Baker
The New Face of War by Malcolm W. Browne
No Greater Love: A Day with the Mobile Guerrilla Force in Vietnam by James C. Donahue
No Guts, No Glory: Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters by Steve Robinson, (Autographed by Author)
No More Vietnams by Richard Nixon
Once a Hero by Howard Swindle
Once a Warrior King: Memories of an Officer in Vietnam by David Donovan
One Day in a Long War by Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price
The Only War We Had: A Platoon Leader's Journal of Vietnam by Michael Lee Lanning
The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese by General Robinson Risner
Payback: Five Marines and Vietnam by Joe Klein
Pleiku: The Dawn of Helicopter Warfare in Vietnam by J.D. Coleman
A P.O.W.'s Story: 2801 Days in Hanoi by Colonel Larry Guarino
The Raid by Benjamin F. Schemmer
The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973 by Shelby L. Stanton
The River and the Gauntlet by S.L.A. Marshall
Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country by Justin Wintle
Scars & Stripes: The True Story of One Man's Courage in Facing Death as a Vietnam POW by Eugene B. McDaniel with James Johnson
SEALs: UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam by T.L. Bosiljevac
Seven Firefights in Vietnam by John A. Cash, John Albright and Allan W. Sandstrum
Shadow Warrior by Felix I. Rodriguez and John Weisman
Shrapnel in the heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Laura Palmer
Silence Was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the Villages by Stuart A. Herrington
Survivors: American POWs in Vietnam by Zalin Grant
Talking with Victor Charlie: An Interrogator's Story by Sedgwick D. Tourison
These Good Men by Michael Norman (2 copies)
To Bear Any Burden by Al Santoli
The Tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold and John Penycate
12,20 & 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam by John A. Parrish
Valor by Timothy S. Lowry
The Vietnam Experience: America Takes Over, 1965-1967 by Edward Doyle and Samuel Lipsman, Combat Photographer by Nick Mills and A Contagion of War by Terrence Maitland and Peter McInerney
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes by Edward F. Murphy
Vietnam, 1969-1970: A Company Commander's Journal by Michael Lee Lanning
Vietnam: The Other War by Charles R. Anderson
Vietnam - Perkasie: A Combat Marine's Memoir by W.D. Ehrhart
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 by Marilyn B. Young
The War of the Innocents by Charles Bracelen Flood
War Story by Jim Morris
War Without Windows by Bruce E. Jones
West to Cambodia by S.L.A. Marshall
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- Moving Images
1480VI1732: Vietnam: A Television History - Homefront, U.S.A.
1480VI1733: Vietnam: A Television History - Tet, 1968
1480VI1734: Vietnam: A Television History - Legacies
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Program from 1st Lt. J. Robert Kalsu Replacement Company Memorialization Ceremony at Fort Campbell Kentucky on 9 August 2002
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Biographical sketch - In Honor of 1LT J. Robert Kalsu
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Boston Publishing Company letter that accompanied book "The Vietnam Experience: America Takes Over"
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List of members of 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment Association (Airmobile-Air Assault) Vietnam, C Company, 2nd Battalion
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=14800000000
- Citation
- R. Mike Womack Collection (1480) Finding Aid, R. Mike Womack Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=14800000000, Accessed 21 Mar 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 14800000000, R. Mike Womack Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 06 Jan 2005 [Updated: 10 Apr 2019]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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