 Название: Undaunted Valor: An Assault Helicopter Unit in Vietnam
Автор: Matt Jackson
Издательство: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Год: 2019
Страниц: 372
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, pdf (conv)
Размер: 10.1 MB
Join Colonel Cory as he recounts some of the most intense helicopter and ground combat of the Vietnam war from the eyes of a man who spent two combat tours there. From being shot down by enemy fire, to leading his air crew to repel an enemy assault, Colonel Cory’s firsthand accounts of the Vietnam War are awe inspiring. Awarded the Silver Star, and two Bronze Stars for Valor, Cory’s hair-raising accounts of what it was like to fly over the Jungles of Vietnam will make you feel as if you are right there with him.
This story is important so that people know who the helicopter crews were and what they were asked to do and did. In 1964–65, the Army ramped up the Warrant Officer Candidate Program to meet the expanding need for helicopter pilots in Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1971, 44,000 warrant officer cadets were awarded flight wings. Most were high school graduates and some had some college. The average age of pilots, crew chiefs and door gunners was twenty years old. Badly needed, they were trained quickly and given enormous responsibility to maintain a very complex piece of equipment. Our aircraft were not as sophisticated as the machines today, but the UH-1D and the UH-1H models were exceptional, forgiving workhorses without which this war could not have been waged. Of the 5,000 UH-1 helicopters that went to Vietnam starting in 1962, over 3,300 were destroyed in combat. This undeclared war also could not have been waged without the young men that supported, maintained, and crewed these aircraft.
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