Author : John Stillman
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781732736108
Unearthing fifty years of repressed memories with stunning accuracy and raw details, Jumping from Helicopters is a vivid and moving Vietnam memoir that will open your eyes to the realities of what our brave young men witnessed and endured, and why they returned facing a lifetime of often unspoken unrest, persistent nightmares, and forced normalcy.
Author : Chuck Gross
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2006-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574412213
Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty, Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. He inserted special operations teams into Laos and participated in Lam Son 719, a misbegotten attempt to assault and cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, during which his helicopter was shot down and he was stranded in the field.
Author : James Joyce
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786443680
"In 1963 ... there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author entered the United States Army through ROTC, and trained to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. He flew both Huey "Slicks" and Huey "Gunships": the former on defense flying troops into battle, and the latter in taking the battle to the enemy. Here he relives his experiences flying and fighting, with special attention given to pilots' day-to-day lives. This entry refers to the LARGE PRINT edition. For the standard edition please see ISBN 978-0-7864-1557-1.
Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 110117515X
A true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a "chickenhawk" in constant danger. "Very simply the best book so far about Vietnam." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author : Jeffrey Zuehlke
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822523825
Introduces helicopters, how they work, and for what purposes they are used.
Author : Randy R. Zahn
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574885650
Flies the reader into combat with the same elite air cavalry unit portrayed in the film "Apocalypse Now"
Author : George Galdorisi
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760323922
The history of a near-century of combat search and rescue, with an account of how the discipline was created and how it is administered—or neglected—today.
Author : Mark Garrison
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2015-10
Category : Attack helicopters
ISBN : 9781629670539
Mark Garrison recounts his experiences from being on the short list for the draft during the Vietnam War, to signing up to be a helicopter pilot, and his tour of duty with the Crocodiles and Alligators of the 119th Assault Helicopter Company.
Author : Robert C. Ankony
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0761843736
Lurps is the revised edition of the memoir of a juvenile delinquent who drops out of ninth grade to chase his dream of military service. After volunteering for Vietnam, he joins the elite U.S. Army LRRP/Rangers—small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance teams that patrol deep in enemy-held territory. It is 1968, and the Lurps find themselves in some of the war's hairiest campaigns and battles, including Tet, Khe Sanh, and A Shau. Readers witness all the horrors, humor, adrenaline, and unexpected beauty through the eyes of a green young warrior. Gone are the heroic clichZs and bravado as compelling narrative and realistic dialogue sweep the reader along with a powerful sense that this is actually happening. This poignant coming-of-age story explores the social background that shaped the protagonist's thinking, his uncertain quest for redemption through increased responsibility, the brotherhood of comrades in arms, women and sexual awakening, and the baffling randomness of who lives and who dies.
Author : William Heilman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 143571184X
In the 60's, a war was being fought in Vietnam. Helicopters were being used in many different rolls for the first time. The author recounts his experiences flying helicopters on two tours of duty in Vietnam.
