Flying with the Spooks: Memoir of a Navy Linguist in the Vietnam War

by Herbert Shippey

Overview

As a linguist with the U.S. Navy Fleet Support Detachment in Da Nang, Herb Shippey was assigned to air reconnaissance during the Vietnam War. Flying with fellow "spooks" over the Gulf of Tonkin and Laos, his duty was to protect American aircraft and ships threatened by MiG 21 fighter jet activity. Shippey's introspective memoir recounts dangerous missions aboard non-combat aircraft (EC-121 Warning Star, P-3 Orion, A-3 Sky Warrior), rocket attacks and typhoons, and the details of his service, some of them classified for forty years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476686721
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2022
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.49(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Herbert Shippey is a retired college English instructor who still teaches part-time. He lives in Tifton, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Entering the Navy and Recruit Training
Chapter 2. Washington, D.C., and New York
Chapter 3. Language Training
Chapter 4. Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas
Chapter 5. En Route to Vietnam
Chapter 6. San Miguel, Philippines
Chapter 7. Arrival in Da Nang
Chapter 8. Standing Night Watch
Chapter 9. Flight Duty
Chapter 10. Flying Dangerously
Chapter 11. Daily Life in Da Nang
Chapter 12. Vignettes
Chapter 13. Rocket Attacks
Chapter 14. Typhoons
Chapter 15. Stress
Chapter 16. Men of the Fleet Support Detachment
Chapter 17. Bennie Trips
Chapter 18. SERE School
Chapter 19. Return to the Philippines
Chapter 20. Da Nang Again
Chapter 21. Final Days in the Philippines
Chapter 22. Return to the World
Chapter 23. Fort Meade, Maryland
Chapter 24. Fort Meade Continued
Chapter 25. Home
Epilogue
Index