Sog: The Secret Wars Of America's Commandos In Vietnam
- Author: John L. Plaster
- Narrator: Arthur Morey
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 14:16:01
Synopsis
John Plaster’s riveting account of his covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War is “a true insider’s account, this eye-opening report will leave readers feeling as if they’ve been given a hot scoop on a highly classified project” (Publishers Weekly).
Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most secret elite US military unit to serve in the Vietnam War—so secret its very existence was denied by the government. Composed entirely of volunteers from such ace fighting units as the Army Green Berets, Air Force Air Commandos, and Navy SEALs, SOG took on the most dangerous covert assignments, in the deadliest and most forbidding theaters of operation.
In SOG, Major John L. Plaster, a three-tour SOG veteran, shares the gripping exploits of these true American warriors in a minute-by-minute, heartbeat-by-heartbeat account of the group’s stunning operations behind enemy lines—penetrating heavily defended North Vietnamese military facilities, holding off mass enemy attacks, launching daring missions to rescue downed US pilots. Some of the most extraordinary true stories of honor and heroism in the history of the US military, from sabotage to espionage to hand-to-hand combat, Plaster’s account is “a detailed history of this little-known aspect of the Vietnam War…a worthy act of historical rescue from an unjustified, willed oblivion” (The New York Times).
Chapters
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001 SOG Title
Duration: 17s -
002 SOG Epigraph
Duration: 51s -
003 SOG Ch1
Duration: 32min -
004 SOG Ch2
Duration: 37min -
005 SOG Ch3
Duration: 45min -
006 SOG Ch4
Duration: 36min -
007 SOG Ch5
Duration: 57min -
008 SOG Ch6
Duration: 55min -
009 SOG Ch7
Duration: 39min -
010 SOG Ch8
Duration: 01h02min -
011 SOG Ch9
Duration: 53min -
012 SOG Ch10
Duration: 54min -
013 SOG Ch11
Duration: 56min -
014 SOG Ch12
Duration: 35min -
015 SOG Ch13
Duration: 48min -
016 SOG Ch14
Duration: 55min -
017 SOG Ch15
Duration: 46min -
018 SOG Ch16
Duration: 59min -
019 SOG Ch17
Duration: 01h07min -
020 SOG Afterword
Duration: 10min