Place

Vietnam

Named in 6 guided books, from #38 Bay City Blast

Also known as 1 name
  • Nam

In the books

  1. #38 Bay City Blast

    Setting of Tolan’s court-martial for killing civilians with Gregory’s gun.

  2. #39 Missing Link

    War setting in Remo’s political reflections.

  3. #50 Killing Time

    Location named in Riley’s attributed account of a former Green Beret’s wartime breakdown; the novel does not establish a distinct named war event in this passage.

  4. #52 Fool's Gold

    Country in Smith’s recollection of Remo’s military killing experience; no specific campaign or date is supplied.

  5. #57 Date with Death

    War setting in the accounts of Bauer and Remo; the flashback refers colloquially to “Nam.”

  6. #74 Walking Wounded

    Country where Phong is imprisoned, Remo travels to find the POWs and the final escape unfolds.

Source notesIdentity and text locators

Contextual source review of the recurring Vietnam subject; book-specific observations and uncertainty remain separate.

destroyer-057:vietnam: Lead compared identifying passages and roles; the shared subject is supported while scene, broadcast, imagined-video, attributed-legend and model-level scopes remain separate. Current: War setting in the accounts of Bauer and Remo; the flashback refers colloquially to “Nam.” Prior: Setting of Tolan’s court-martial for killing civilians with Gregory’s gun. (witness:00000165:ch03:p0055; witness:00000111:ch04:p0066).

destroyer-050:vietnam: Lead compared current/prior identifying source passages and roles; they support one subject while narrative, attributed, metonymic, product and paratext scopes remain distinct. Current: Location named in Riley’s attributed account of a former Green Beret’s wartime breakdown; the novel does not establish a distinct named war event in this passage. Prior: Setting of Tolan’s court-martial for killing civilians with Gregory’s gun. (witness:00000144:ch15:p0065; witness:00000111:ch04:p0066).

destroyer-052:vietnam: Lead compared source contexts identifying the same geographic subject; neighboring sites, fictional organizations and city/state scopes remain distinct. (witness:00000150:ch10:p0009).

destroyer-039:vietnam: Same country-level Vietnam geography as the existing Book38 group; political and wartime portrayals remain source scoped. Retain the older singleton address. (witness:00000111:ch04:p0066; witness:00000114:ch02:p0004).

destroyer-074:b74-vietnam: Same country-level geographic subject, with separate wartime, postwar, political and character-report scopes. Historical North/South Vietnam subjects are not collapsed. (witness:00000216:ch01:p0021; witness:00000216:ch01:p0073; witness:00000111:ch04:p0066; witness:00000114:ch02:p0004).

Bay City Blast

mention

Sources 1 references
  • witness:00000111:ch04:p0066

Missing Link

mention

Sources 1 references
  • witness:00000114:ch02:p0004

Killing Time

narrative; on-page mention

Sources 2 references
  • witness:00000144:ch15:p0065
  • witness:00000144:ch16:p0004

Fool's Gold

narrative

Sources 1 references
  • witness:00000150:ch10:p0009

Date with Death

mention

Sources 3 references
  • witness:00000165:ch03:p0055
  • witness:00000165:ch07:p0002
  • witness:00000165:ch07:p0050

Walking Wounded

narrative; mention and appearance scopes are stated in role

Sources 4 references
  • witness:00000216:ch01:p0021
  • witness:00000216:ch07:p0081
  • witness:00000216:ch13:p0041
  • witness:00000216:ch22:p0122

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