Air War: Vietnam

***COURTESY OF TWOBEARS BOOKS*** YANKEE STATION-where A-4 Skyhawks catapult off the carriers and wing toward North Vietnam. OPERATION "RANCH HAND" - where planes make war against the land itself. THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS - where giant helicopters transport the troops, and napalming jets at times swooped down to save them. THE DELTA - where Americans in tiny spotter planes were forced to play God to the lives of the Vietnamese below. CAN THO CIVILIAN HOSPITAL - where the inevitable mistakes turn up. From Air Rescue Missions to shot-down Migs...There were few places in Vietnam that aviation expert Frank Harvey (author) didn't get to: over the Delta in an FAC Cessna O-1E Bird Dog, on the big carriers at Yankee Station, and even a cruise along a Vietcong-lined river aboard a Navy patrol river boat-these are only a sample from the many crisply told, true accounts from the American fighting men he lived with and flew with, in a day when Vietnam's flame-filled skies were shaken by the harsh thunders of air war.
Author: Harvey, Frank

Publisher: Bantam

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0553281607

ISBN-13: 9780553281606