Hornet 33

Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death. Begun as a series of attempted letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs, this compelling memoir of an aircraft commander in the 116th Assault Helicopter Company--"The Hornets"--relates his experience of the war in frank detail.From supporting the 25th Infantry Division's invasion of Cambodia, to flying the lead aircraft in the 101st Airmobile Division's pivotal Operation Lam Son 719 invasion of Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail at LZ Hope, the author recounts the traumatic events of his service from March 1970 to March 1971.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-21
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476666099

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Table of ContentsMapsx &Preface1. Whiskey Shots, Playing Slots, Coin Toss2. Getting Shot At: Just Take It3. White-Knuckle Formation Flying4. Mental Degeneration into Looney Land5. New Guy Extra Duties6. Helicopters on the Moon, Nixon’s Cambodia, First Day7. More New Guy Extra Duties8. The Guard Towers, Being Insane9. Dead, First Day, First Minutes10. Flight Hours Clerk11. ACs Flew Left Seat: Hello, Americal Division12. Shoot at a Hornet, You Die13. New Platoon Leader Temporary14. Kham Duc Briefing, Letters Home15. AC Transition, Final Ride, Dennis Plumber16. Sappers at Kham Duc17. The Jeep and Larry Hood’s First Day as AC18. Death, Don’t Come Knocking: Serna and Larraga19. Leon Richards, the Snake-Eater, Was Gone Like Smoke20. IP School21. First Check Rides22. Death Comes to the Hornets Again: Koch23. R&R Was Coming Soon, Concussion Grenade24. Flying Graves Registration25. Attempted Murder: The Fragging26. R&R Hawaii: Hot Sun Outside, Freezing Inside27. Flares All Night28. Cut Me, Cut Me, Go Ahead29. Hood’s Check Ride, Screaming Woman30. Aviation Safety Officer School—Captain Salmond31. Medals for All the Wrong Reasons32. Gunship Body Count: Like a Deer Tied to the Fender33. NVA Marching Down the Open Road34. Good Vibrations, South Vietnamese Pilot35. Out at Hawk Hill, After Midnight36. Stealing Food Over the Holidays37. The Khe Sanh Series: Quang Tri Rockets38. CO Office, CW2 Denny39. The Khe Sanh Series: Largest Armada40. Watching the Fly-By from the Deck41. Nurse in White Satin42. The Khe Sanh Series: Machete-Man43. Jet Airliner: Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, to Fort Lewis, Washington, USA44. Jet Airliner: Denver Airport, I’ll Be Home Tonight, Baby45. My Wife, Our Apartment, Back in the WorldIndex

“[Denny] did and saw things that far exceeded normal levels of fighting, suffering, and killing, and describes many gory scenes.... Ed Denny has a way with words, using fresh similes and metaphors, few clichés, and conveying a sense of awe and wonder. The book tightly held my attention from start to finish.”—The VVA Veteran; “pulls no punches...a well-organized series of memoirs of both combat operations and base camp incidents both humorous and tragic...a significant contribution to the written history of America’s Vietnam experience...the specifics of combat flying are incredibly detailed.”—On Point.