{"id":27878,"date":"2025-10-04T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/larry-thorne-biography-part-2-green-berets-in-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:00:15","slug":"larry-thorne-biography-part-2-green-berets-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/larry-thorne-biography-part-2-green-berets-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Thorne Biography Part 2: Green Berets in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Usz8HjRIuE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>T\u00f6rni\/Thorne shirts &#038; patches:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/products\/forgotten-weapons-lauri-torni-t-shirt-cotton\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/products\/forgotten-weapons-lauri-torni-t-shirt-cotton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Part 1 Here: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B2LZJ3BhqJo\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/B2LZJ3BhqJo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Born a Soldier: The Times and Life of Larry Thorne&#8221; by J. Michael Cleverley; recommended English language book on Thorne:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ZUjni4\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ZUjni4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kari Kallonen&#8217;s book in Finnish is available here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50744551-lauri-t-rni---mannerheim-ristin-ritari-ja-usa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50744551-lauri-t-rni&#8212;mannerheim-ristin-ritari-ja-usa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Phantom Fighters&#8221;, the US Army documentary that includes Thorne, is viewable here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/youtube-h3O0Xaok9Ss\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/youtube-h3O0Xaok9Ss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Part II of our biography on Lauri T\u00f6rni \/ Larry Thorne with author and researcher Kari Kallonen. Today we are covering Thorne&#8217;s live and exploits after emigrating to the United States. He joined the US Army, then 10th Special Forces Group in Germany, and was one of the original Green Berets in Vietnam until his death in a helicopter crash in October 1965. His remains were only recovered in 1999, and Mr. Kallonen was part of the team that traveled to Vietnam for the recovery effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00f6rni\/Thorne shirts &#038; patches:https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/products\/forgotten-weapons-lauri-torni-t-shirt-cotton See Part 1 Here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/B2LZJ3BhqJo &#8220;Born a Soldier: The Times and Life of Larry Thorne&#8221; by J. Michael Cleverley; recommended English language book on Thorne:https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ZUjni4 Kari Kallonen&#8217;s book in Finnish is available here:https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/50744551-lauri-t-rni&#8212;mannerheim-ristin-ritari-ja-usa &#8220;Phantom Fighters&#8221;, the US Army documentary that includes Thorne, is viewable here:https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/youtube-h3O0Xaok9Ss Welcome back to Part II of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/larry-thorne-biography-part-2-green-berets-in-vietnam\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Larry Thorne Biography Part 2: Green Berets in Vietnam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}