![]() ![]() This auspicious debut stands in good comparison with Flight of the Intruder as a fictional portrait of naval air operations in Vietnam. Deftly manipulating an understated prose, Carroll balances descriptions of strike and rescue missions into the North with an empathetic analysis of command problems at the end of a lost war. First novelist Carroll, a veteran rescue pilot with extensive Vietnam experience, uses Boyle, Santy and task force commander Rear Admiral Welch to put readers on the flag bridge and the flight deck, and in the ready room and wardroom of the U.S.S. Tim Boyle flies a Sea King rescue chopper his closest friend, Mike Santy, is in charge of an A-7 Corsair. Navy in the Vietnam War: An Illustrated History is an excellent way to cover the entirety of the United States Navy with a thoughtful selection of photographs on every aspect from carrier ops and aviation to amphibious ops to gunline to underway replenishment to the lonely outpost of PIRAZ. MAROLDA - 2002, FIRST EDITION - PAPERBACK BOOK, 416 pages. At the age of 83, Halyburton has written 'Reflections on Captivity. ![]() At the cutting edge are the helicopter crews of North Sea Air Rescue. NAVY IN THE VIETNAM WAR - AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY - BY EDWARD J. Porter Halyburton was held as a POW in prisons for more than seven years. ![]() What remain are professional pride and fighting man's courage-qualities that lead all ranks to take awesome risks to rescue pilots downed in enemy territory. This impressively detailed and highly suspenseful technothriller is set in 1972, when the carrier pilots flying against North Vietnam and the senior officers who send them out have long since lost any illusions that victory can be reached. ![]()
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