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Loading... Here There Are Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos, 1968-69 (Stackpole Military History Series) (edition 2008)by Reginald Hathorn (Author)
Work InformationHere There Are Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos, 1968-69 (Stackpole Military History Series) by Reginald Hathorn
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A very interesting account of a Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Laos during the Vietnam. Hathorn describes calling in air strikes against vehicles, troops and elephants along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. One particularly hairy mission was picking up a Pathet Lao officer taken prisoner by Royal troops. This involved going into a very hostile area. Given that FACs typically had a price on their head, getting shot down was a death sentence - a slow one. ( ) no reviews | add a review
In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam War Many never-before-heard stories--some of them tragic, others humorous At the height of the Vietnam War, in 1968 and 1969, Reginald Hathorn (call sign NAIL 31) flew 229 combat missions as a forward air controller for the U.S. Air Force. He inserted Special Forces teams into North Vietnam and Laos, completed missions for the CIA, and flew missions with the Lao Army. Most of the time, he flew into Laos and called in airstrikes against targets inside that country--in a war which did not officially exist, about which the world knew nothing, and which the U.S. government denied. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)959.704History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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