Johnnie M. Clark has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Guns Up!.
Guns Up!
Summary
This gut-wrenching firsthand account of the war is a classic in the annals of Vietnam literature. "Guns Up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine gunner in Vietnam was seven to 10 seconds after a firefight began. Johnnie was only 17 when he got there, at the height of the bloody Tet Offensive at Hue, and he quickly realized the grim statistic held a chilling truth. The Marines who fought and bled and died were ordinary men, many still teenagers, but the selfless bravery they showed day after day in a nightmarish jungle war made them true heroes. Guns Up! contains updated information about those harrowing battles. It is a tribute to the raw courage and sacrifice of the United States Marines.
©2002 Johnnie M. Clark (P)2002 Random House Inc., Random House Audio, a Division of Random House Inc.
Section 8
Summary
This could only be written by a Marine with combat fatigue who knows Marines and history. It will be loved by those who loved Catch 22, MASH, and One Flew over the Coo Coo's Nest. These Marines and this story is insanely original because it is based in more truth than you will ever believe. It is 1946 and President Truman is trying to get re-elected with the help of Standard Oil but Standard Oil is demanding that a mysterious deal be struck with Chiang Kai Shek. Truman hates the Marine Corps and is working hard to disband Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. He almost has congress convinced that the Corps is obsolete now that we have the A-bomb. He has sent what is left of the Corps to China to aid Shek in fighting the Communists. Poor Welcome George Many Numbers is an oval shaped Navajo Tribal Accountant in Window Rock, Arizona who speaks with questionable monotone wisdom in two languages. He is a former Marine Corporal and decorated hero whose services were no longer required when it was decided that he was partially crazy due to combat fatigue and given a Section Eight discharge as unfit for duty. But when Welcome awakens from a frying pan-induced coma in a Naval hospital in China and discovers that he was delivered there by Sidney Mosedale the Press Secretary to President Truman, he seeks escape. The Navajo soon discovers that he is on a mission to save the Marine Corps. Welcome loves the Corps and he is not bitter about being a Section Eight because he understands, after therapy, that Section Eight is a temporary state unlike Canada or Kentucky.
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