Author: | Taylor Eubank | ISBN: | 9781476615462 |
Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers | Publication: | February 28, 2014 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Taylor Eubank |
ISBN: | 9781476615462 |
Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
Publication: | February 28, 2014 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Flying a Phantom RF-4C reconnaissance jet amidst air combat—the remarkable technical details, the mission, the derring-do—and the 19 nonflying hours a day: All this told in a gripping series of vignettes by a former pilot of a U.S. Air Force photo reconnaissance jet stationed at an airbase in Udorn, Thailand, during the Vietnam conflict. Formation flying, night photo missions, confrontations with B-52s, the Officer’s Club and shows at Udorn, AAA fire, SAM missiles, the “Hanoi Hilton,” GIs being killed by their own side—all this and more form a work of literature quite unlike any other emerging from Southeast Asia.
Flying a Phantom RF-4C reconnaissance jet amidst air combat—the remarkable technical details, the mission, the derring-do—and the 19 nonflying hours a day: All this told in a gripping series of vignettes by a former pilot of a U.S. Air Force photo reconnaissance jet stationed at an airbase in Udorn, Thailand, during the Vietnam conflict. Formation flying, night photo missions, confrontations with B-52s, the Officer’s Club and shows at Udorn, AAA fire, SAM missiles, the “Hanoi Hilton,” GIs being killed by their own side—all this and more form a work of literature quite unlike any other emerging from Southeast Asia.