Air War: Vietnam

Air War: Vietnam by Harvey, Frank. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780553281606.

***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) didnt 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 Vietnams flame-filled skies were shaken by the harsh thunders of air war.