Table of Contents
About the Author vii
Acknowledgements viii
Author's Foreword ix
Chapter 1 Four Years Prior to Vietnam 1
Chapter 2 Arrival in Vietnam 12
Chapter 3 The Mountains Can Kill You 18
Chapter 4 Flying in Vietnam: 90 Percent Boredom, 10 Percent Stark Terror 23
Chapter 5 A 'Fowl'ed Up Mid-Air Collision 27
Chapter 6 The Big Splash 31
Chapter 7 Browning Your Flight Suit 35
Chapter 8 Holes in my Chopper? 37
Chapter 9 Christmas in the Philippines 40
Chapter 10 Scouting in Indian Country 55
Chapter 11 Happy Hour: TINS Time 59
Chapter 12 The Stork Flies to Div Arty Air 61
Chapter 13 Aerobatics on LZ East 65
Chapter 14 Retreating Blade Stall: One of Many Ways to 'SCREW THE POOCH' 68
Chapter 15 How Many PACs Can You Stuff in an OH-23G? 72
Chapter 16 Shaking the Hornets' Nest 75
Chapter 17 Saving a Snake-Driver's Life 78
Chapter 18 The Rescue 81
Chapter 19 Midnight Requisitioning 92
Chapter 20 The 'A, B, Cs' of Shooting Down a Loach 96
Chapter 21 Doc's Boondoggle 106
Chapter 22 The Rocket Attack 113
Chapter 23 How Not to Enter a Helicopter 126
Chapter 24 Harrowing Day at LZ Professional 129
Chapter 25 Friendlies on LZ Ross? 135
Chapter 26 'What Are They Going To Do, Send Me To Vietnam?' 143
Chapter 27 The Final Mission 148
Chapter 28 A Bittersweet Homecoming 154
Chapter 29 Epilogue: About the Americal Div Arty Pilots 162
Appendix 1 Some Statistics from the Combat Area Casualty File (CACF) as of November 1993 164
Endnotes 166
