Underground Devil Dog
Book Details
Author(s)James DeLaBar
PublisherCount DeLaBar Books
ISBN / ASINB005D378OU
ISBN-13978B005D378O5
Sales Rank1,341,358
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Underground Devil Dog is a memoir of Sergeant James W. DeLaBar, Marine combat engineer and tunnel rat during the most ferocious fighting of the Viet Nam war. His exploits reads like a thriller but the events are real.
Sergeant DeLaBar had his heart hardened in Cuban mine fields before he faced the fire fights and the tunnels of Nam. Sent to Cuba to replace old mines with new ones his nerves were tested each and every day. His best friend was blown up disarming a mine. In Underground Devil Dog the reader marvels at how Sergeant DeLaBar, in a state of shock over his friend’s death, was able to walk out of the mine field without being blown up. Only to be threatened with court martial for endangering government property, himself.
He is the only known tunnel fighter, underground devil dog, to go down into the Vihn Moc tunnels near the DMZ separating North and South Viet Nam. In this dark hell he engaged the enemy on his turf. Dropped down in a tunnel in total darkness, carrying a satchel charge of C-4, a .45 cal semi-automatic pistol, a K-bar knife, and a flashlight. Sergeant DeLaBar sat alone in the total darkness until his eyes were able to see a muddy vision of what was ahead; only using his flashlight, which had a read lens cover to make the light nearly invisible to the enemy, when it became necessary to make a fine distinction of an object. He crawled on hands and knees searching out the enemy. When he closed in on where they were he set the charge and booked (crawled away as fast as he could) back to the entrance.
The North Vietnamese had a bounty on Sergeant DeLaBar’s head. He knew that the enemy had no interest in capturing him for he had no information, he was searching for information. The enemy was told to kill him, bring in his head for a reward of money and extra food. That is why he always kept a round for killing any enemy that came close enough to kill him. He became known as the outlaw Jesse James.
And upon his return he faced an ungrateful American public, cursed, had human feces thrown at him and so on.
Underground Devil Dog gives an insider’s view of Marine boot camp as it was in the sixties. Sergeant DeLaBar served with the memories of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Korea and all the great men who served in the Marines since before the official founding of America.
Underground Devil Dog reads like a page turner but is the true exploits on a single man trying to survive in a world gone mad.
WARNING: this book contains graphic violence and language.
Sergeant DeLaBar had his heart hardened in Cuban mine fields before he faced the fire fights and the tunnels of Nam. Sent to Cuba to replace old mines with new ones his nerves were tested each and every day. His best friend was blown up disarming a mine. In Underground Devil Dog the reader marvels at how Sergeant DeLaBar, in a state of shock over his friend’s death, was able to walk out of the mine field without being blown up. Only to be threatened with court martial for endangering government property, himself.
He is the only known tunnel fighter, underground devil dog, to go down into the Vihn Moc tunnels near the DMZ separating North and South Viet Nam. In this dark hell he engaged the enemy on his turf. Dropped down in a tunnel in total darkness, carrying a satchel charge of C-4, a .45 cal semi-automatic pistol, a K-bar knife, and a flashlight. Sergeant DeLaBar sat alone in the total darkness until his eyes were able to see a muddy vision of what was ahead; only using his flashlight, which had a read lens cover to make the light nearly invisible to the enemy, when it became necessary to make a fine distinction of an object. He crawled on hands and knees searching out the enemy. When he closed in on where they were he set the charge and booked (crawled away as fast as he could) back to the entrance.
The North Vietnamese had a bounty on Sergeant DeLaBar’s head. He knew that the enemy had no interest in capturing him for he had no information, he was searching for information. The enemy was told to kill him, bring in his head for a reward of money and extra food. That is why he always kept a round for killing any enemy that came close enough to kill him. He became known as the outlaw Jesse James.
And upon his return he faced an ungrateful American public, cursed, had human feces thrown at him and so on.
Underground Devil Dog gives an insider’s view of Marine boot camp as it was in the sixties. Sergeant DeLaBar served with the memories of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Korea and all the great men who served in the Marines since before the official founding of America.
Underground Devil Dog reads like a page turner but is the true exploits on a single man trying to survive in a world gone mad.
WARNING: this book contains graphic violence and language.
