The Vietnam Air War From The Cockpit

Author : Dennis M. Ridnouer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978476486
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam Air War: from the Cockpit written by Dennis M. Ridnouer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grit. Courage. Tenacity. It took a lot to survive the Vietnam War. These stories come from real Vietnam airmen and their support crews, recounting actual incidents that are sometimes funny, sometimes tense, and sometimes heartrendingly tragic. Part of the fabric of one of the most controversial conflicts in American military history, these are experiences many who came and fought never signed up for. From pulse-pounding combat missions to teary-eyed reflections at the funerals of heroes lost, these accounts of war and its impacts are as real as it gets"--Back cover

Author : Robert F. Dorr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam written by Robert F. Dorr and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ed Rasimus
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312948764
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palace Cobra written by Ed Rasimus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where the acclaimed "When Thunder Rolled" leaves off, the author pens a riveting memoir of his service as an experienced combat pilot in the waning days of the Vietnam War. photos. Martins Press.

Author : Dennis M. Ridnouer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537243399
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam Air War written by Dennis M. Ridnouer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Dennis M. (Mike) Ridnouer writes in the foreword of his new oral history, The Vietnam Air War: First Person, over five million missions were flown in the Vietnam War. The many pilots, crew, and support personnel who risked their lives daily don't deserve to fade into obscurity. Unhappy with the lack of first-person retellings of the war, Ridnouer made it his new mission to preserve these men's tales of bravery and duty. The result is more than one hundred stories from the front lines of the war. Air Force Fighter Pilots, Weapon Systems Operators (WSOs), and Electronic Warfare Officers (EWOs), recount their stories of air-to-air engagements, near misses, successes, and failures. A pilot explains why he buys a drink for every tanker driver he meets. An airman explains what a Thud is. A veteran vividly describes his homecoming. These stories and others provide a much different account of the war than those found in history books. The pages come alive with perilous missions and skilled maneuvers. Airmen from all walks of life were united during the war, and their tales include stirring accounts of friendship and comradery.

Author : Neil Cosentino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996089500
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Cockpit written by Neil Cosentino and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates some of the author's various flight missions as a pilot, including combat missions during the Vietnam War, hurricane support missions as a member of the Florida Civil Air Patrol, and other missions flown during his long career as a pilot.

Author : Mike McCarthy
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 1461751470
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phantom Reflections written by Mike McCarthy and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair-raising descriptions of aerial combat as seen from the cockpit of a fighter jet Thoughtful reflections on what it meant to fight in Vietnam As the Vietnam War raged thousands of miles away, Mike McCarthy completed his flight training in the United States, eager to get into the war and afraid it would end before he could participate. He needn't have worried. By 1967, he was flying his F-4 Phantom II fighter with the U.S. Air Force's 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, also known as Satan's Angels. Before his tour ended, McCarthy completed 124 missions during the intense air war over North Vietnam and Laos and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. His memoir recreates the horror and exhilaration of air combat.

Author : Richard Fogg
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612000150
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fogg in the Cockpit written by Richard Fogg and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed painter’s memoir of his experiences as a fighter pilot during WWII includes original illustrations and satirical cartoons by the author. Renowned as the world’s foremost painter of railroads, Howard Fogg’s career spanned half a century and some 1,200 paintings. However, few are aware of his prior career as a fighter pilot in the US 8th Air Force during World War II. Fortunately, Fogg left behind a detailed diary, which illuminates this brief but exciting chapter of his life at the controls of P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs. Fogg’s diary is presented here in its entirety, offering a candid glimpse into the life of a fighter pilot, both in the sky and in wartime England. Written in 1943-44, it offers an intimate perspective on his seventy-six combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with three clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Speaking on personal details of a pilot’s day-to-day life, Fogg also discusses air combat and the strategic and political decisions that influenced the course of the war. Fogg in the Cockpit also includes supplementary material by Richard and Janet Fogg, as well as illustrations by Fogg himself, including satirical cartoons and military and railroad artwork.

Author : Martin W Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN 13 : 152674628X
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air War Vietnam written by Martin W Bowman and published by Pen and Sword Aviation. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Showcasing specific aircraft and highlighting significant missions illuminates the skills and emotions of the men who flew the machines. Bowman does an excellent job recounting stories about battles in the air and decision-making on the ground." — The VVA Veteran Martin Bowman’s revealing narrative of the aerial conflict in South-East Asia, 1965-1972, which had its beginnings in 1 November 1955, engulfed Viêtnam, Laos, and Cambodia and only ended with the fall of Sàigòn on 30 April 1975 has resulted from decades of painstaking fact-finding as well as detailed correspondence with surviving aircrew incorporating a wealth of first-hand accounts, some never told before, supported by dozens of rare and unusual photographs. Together they describe in adrenalin-pumping accuracy the furious aerial battles of a long suffering and bitter war in South-East Asia and in particular the frontline action in the skies over Vietnam that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. They too will find a new and useful perspective on a conflict that cost the Americans 58,022 dead and brought the USA worldwide condemnation for its role in Southeast Asia. Nearly 2,500 Americans remained ‘missing’. This work serves as a tribute to the courageous pilots who flew the F-104 Starfighter in the ‘Widowmakers’ war and B-52 bomber crews on ‘Arc Light’ ‘Linebacker II’ strikes and the eleven days of Christmas which ultimately ended the aerial campaign against North Viêtnam. And as well, strike aircraft such as the USAF F-4 Phantom and the F-105 ‘Thud’ and the US Navy carrier-borne jet and propeller-driven strike aircraft and the Americans’ sworn enemy, the North Vi?tnamese MiG fighters, feature large, from ‘Rolling Thunder’ onwards. Equally, the Hueys and Chinooks and other notable work horses that participated on combat assaults or Ash & Trash missions and transports like the C-130 ‘Herky-Bird’, C-123 Provider, Caribou and Viêtnamese C-47 - the ‘Haulers On Call’ - that performed sterling service during the gruelling air campaign are not forgotten either. Here, at first hand, are their stories which also include some of the less publicised American forces like the pilots and crewmen who flew the Bird Dogs and all manner of helicopters as well as the largely forgotten Australian and New Zealand Air Force units and the Anzac Battalions whose valuable contributions are too often overlooked. So too is the cost in human misery, death and destruction.

Author : David R. Honodel
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417436
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phantom Vietnam War written by David R. Honodel and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David R. “Buff” Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in Vietnam; it was a secret one in the skies of a neighboring country almost unknown in America, attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail that fed soldiers and supplies from North Vietnam into the South. Stateside he learned the art of flying the F-4, but in combat, the bomb-loaded fighter handled differently, targets shot back, and people suffered. Inert training ordnance was replaced by lethal weapons. In the air, a routine day mission turned into an unexpected duel with a deadly adversary. Complacency during a long night mission escorting a gunship almost led to death. A best friend died just before New Year’s. A RF-4 crashed into the base late in Buff’s tour of duty. The reader will experience Buff’s war from the cockpit of a supersonic F-4D Phantom II, doing 5-G pullouts after dropping six 500-pound bombs on trucks hidden beneath triple jungle canopy. These were well defended by a skillful, elusive, determined enemy firing back with 37mm anti-aircraft fire and tracers in the sky. The man who left the States was a naïve, self-centered young pilot. The man who came back 137 missions later was much different.

Author : Reginald Hathorn
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811741486
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here There are Tigers written by Reginald Hathorn and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam War. Many never-before-heard stories--some of them tragic, others humorous.