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Course Hero. "Fallen Angels Study Guide." Course Hero. 20 Dec. 2019. Web. 16 Aug. 2022. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Fallen-Angels/>.
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Course Hero, "Fallen Angels Study Guide," December 20, 2019, accessed August 16, 2022, https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Fallen-Angels/.
| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | On September 15, 1967, Private Richie Perry of the U.S. Army is aboard an army plane bound for Vietnam, where his unit h... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | In Tan Son Nhut, Perry and Peewee wait nine days for their next orders. They play chess, chat with other soldiers who ha... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Perry, Peewee, and another soldier named Jenkins are assigned to travel to Chu Lai by plane. Upon arrival, they are load... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Lieutenant Carroll leads the squad in a prayer after the death of Jenkins, telling Perry that he picked up the term "ang... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | Perry and the other members of his squad pass time in the barracks awaiting their next mission for two days while hearin... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Perry and Lobel take an evening of guard duty, watching the outer perimeter of the camp. They discuss reality and movies... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | Perry meets Jamal, the medic, who delivers malaria pills to their "hooch," or barracks. Jamal tells Perry that the repor... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | Perry is on loan to the fourth platoon of Charlie Company for a patrol, and Lieutenant Doyle assigns him to be an ammuni... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | Perry's platoon is tasked to go to a nearby village on a "pacification mission"—a visit to pass out food and persuade th... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Perry's squad and a few other squads from the platoon return to the "pacified" village to lay an ambush for the Viet Con... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | While the squad struggles to put Lieutenant Carroll's death behind them, Sergeant Simpson asks Perry to write a letter i... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | The squad gets the mail, including a college catalog for Walowick—which leads a discussion of his future back in the "wo... Read More |
| Chapter 13 | Just before Christmas 1967, the squad believes that the war will be over before the holiday. Walowick is sent away to ge... Read More |
| Chapter 14 | Back at the camp, the squad tries not to think about what happened in the attempted ambush. Monaco receives a letter fro... Read More |
| Chapter 15 | The new base at Tam Ky is even more remote than the one at Chu Lai, and the territory is more dangerous. The squad is se... Read More |
| Chapter 16 | The squad is on the helicopter, with Perry and Brew on the floor receiving medical attention. Perry is aware of them doi... Read More |
| Chapter 17 | Perry rejoins his squad at Tam Ky, where he finds that Johnson cannot accept Brew's death, and Sergeant Simpson has retu... Read More |
| Chapter 18 | A Viet Cong sniper hits a man in the camp, but the soldiers manage to kill the sniper. Alpha Company is scheduled to coo... Read More |
| Chapter 19 | In the village, after the firefight, there are too many dead Americans to be taken out on the helicopters. Lieutenant Ge... Read More |
| Chapter 20 | With the landing zone cleared of North Vietnamese soldiers, Perry's squad finds themselves surrounded by ARVN soldiers t... Read More |
| Chapter 21 | The U.S. soldiers hear rumors that the North Vietnamese are on the retreat, beaten back on all fronts. The squad is sent... Read More |
| Chapter 22 | Perry and Peewee lie together on the top of the ridge, waiting to decide their next move. They hear Vietnamese voices co... Read More |
| Chapter 23 | Perry wakes up in the hospital, where Peewee has already been rushed into surgery. Monaco is there, talking to Perry unt... Read More |
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