Call Sign Dracula

My Tour with the Black Scarves, April 1969 to March 1970

By: Joe Fair

Narrated by: David de Vries

Call Sign Dracula provides an outstanding, valuable, and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthand account of a one-year tour that shows how a soldier grew and matured from an awkward, bewildered, inexperienced, 18-year-old country bumpkin from Kentucky, to a tough, battle-hardened fighting soldier.

You will laugh, cry, and stand in awe at the true-life experiences shared in this memoir. The awfulness of battle, fear beyond description, the sorrow and anguish of losing friends, extreme weariness, the dealing with the scalding sun, torrential rain, cold, heat, humidity, insects, and the daily effort just to maintain sanity were struggles faced virtually every day. And yet, there were the good times. There was the coming together to laugh, joke, and share stories from home. There was the warmth and compassion shown by men to each other in such an unreal environment. You will see where color, race, or where you were from had no bearing on the tight-knit group of young men that was formed from the necessity to survive. What a bunch they were!

...then the return to home and all the adjustments and struggles to once again fit into a world that was now strange and uncomfortable.

Call Sign Dracula is an excellent and genuine memoir of an infantry soldier in the Vietnam War.

©2014 Joe Fair (P)2018 Tantor

Thank you Sgt. Fair

I joined because of Desert Shield/Storm. I would’ve been proud to serve with you. Thank you and WELCOME HOME!

Compelling combat diary

This is an engaging recitation of people, places, and events related to the author’s year long combat service in Vietnam. It has no literary flair and reads almost like a facts and figures combat diary. However, it is authentic and compelling and one of the better memoirs I’ve read about that conflict.

Been there will forever remember

Great story reminder of the guys I served with all great heroes, will never forget nor do I want to.

Good Vietnam war memoir.

Narration: not inspirational but clear enough.


Story: account of particular unit history is informative account of esprit de corps found in many units but not all. Incidents add to body of illustrative poignant accounts when this story melded with other viet war memoirs.

Great Read

This is the authors personal experience and I liked it alot.
He tells his experiences in Vietnam and did an amazing job doing just that.