BOOK REVIEW: IN HONOR AND MEMORY

Howard Daniel writes:

In Honor and Memory, Installations and Facilities of the Vietnam War, by Ray & Pia Bows, Bows and Company, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, ISBN 978-0929973-07-4, LOC 2014-940883, 1st edition, 2014, 772 pages.

The book begins with over 600 pages identifying all of the U.S. and Allied military installations, facilities and monuments in Vietnam. Most of them were named after the heroes of the war, but there are also those named after historical organizations, places and other people. I found the names of several men I had forgotten and did not know installations and facilities had been named for them. I also found some places I had visited that I had not remembered their names.

The next section has Maps and there are a large number of them. The maps pinpointing all of the installation and facility locations are worth their weight in gold. Many of them described in other books were never identified to their exact location. The third section describes the installations and facilities in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Okinawa and Guam. Many readers may be surprised at the number of them that are related to the Vietnam War.

The fourth section is a Cross Reference that makes a researcher’s job incredibly easy with many, many cross references. Then there is also a very large Index at the back of the book. If you cannot find what you are looking for in the Cross Reference and the Index, you did not carefully read them. I knew the authors did a lot of research but the Bibliography blew me away. It is HUGE! There are many references in it that I need to buy or borrow for research into my Southeast Asian numismatic field.

For those who collect the military tokens related to the installations and facilities, the background information will greatly increase their knowledge about them. It might also help those with unidentified tokens to resolve their identification. If a reader can identify a token because of this book, please contact the authors. For those who collect other tokens, they might consider writing a similar reference for their specialty.

The book can be ordered from www.BowsMilitaryBooks.com or www.in-honor-and-memory.com. If you contact the authors, you might be allowed a "Daniel" discount for it.

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