- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
A USAF navigator's candid, sharp-witted memoir of his Vietnam tours and his wide-ranging career: "A first rate read." âNick Brokhausen, author of
We Few
During Hank Zeybel's first tour in Vietnam, he flew 772 C130 sorties as a navigator. He volunteered for a second tour, requesting assignment to B26s so he could "shoot back." When B26s were removed from the inventory, he accepted a Spectre gunship crew slot, flying truck-busting missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
In this book he describes the terror of flying through heavy AA fire over the trail, and the heroics of the pilots in bringing their crews through. Away from the war, he recalls leave back in the US, where his elderly father was bewildered by his war-hardened attitude and black sense of humor. Contextualizing his time with Spectre gunships, he compares his experiences with those of other airmen, like Phil Combies and Robin Olds, and his broader Air Force careerâhe joined upon graduating college in 1955 and his first operational assignment was as a B47 Stratojet navigator-bomber at Strategic Air Commandâtrained to drop thermonuclear bombs with precision. From 1957 to 1963, he logged over two thousand hours as a radar-bombardier in B47 Stratojets and B52 C-models.
In this memoir of Vietnam, his Air Force career, and his second career as a journalist and writer, Zeybel's admiration of the skill and bravery of pilotsâmany of whom who he depended on for his very survivalâshines through his descriptions of combat missions and being "along for the ride."
"Simply riveting, impressively informative, and exceptionally well written." â Midwest Book Review
During Hank Zeybel's first tour in Vietnam, he flew 772 C130 sorties as a navigator. He volunteered for a second tour, requesting assignment to B26s so he could "shoot back." When B26s were removed from the inventory, he accepted a Spectre gunship crew slot, flying truck-busting missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
In this book he describes the terror of flying through heavy AA fire over the trail, and the heroics of the pilots in bringing their crews through. Away from the war, he recalls leave back in the US, where his elderly father was bewildered by his war-hardened attitude and black sense of humor. Contextualizing his time with Spectre gunships, he compares his experiences with those of other airmen, like Phil Combies and Robin Olds, and his broader Air Force careerâhe joined upon graduating college in 1955 and his first operational assignment was as a B47 Stratojet navigator-bomber at Strategic Air Commandâtrained to drop thermonuclear bombs with precision. From 1957 to 1963, he logged over two thousand hours as a radar-bombardier in B47 Stratojets and B52 C-models.
In this memoir of Vietnam, his Air Force career, and his second career as a journalist and writer, Zeybel's admiration of the skill and bravery of pilotsâmany of whom who he depended on for his very survivalâshines through his descriptions of combat missions and being "along for the ride."
"Simply riveting, impressively informative, and exceptionally well written." â Midwest Book Review
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eBook ISBN
9781636240398Subtopic
Military & Maritime HistoryTable of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface: My Heroes Have Always Been Soldiers
- 1 Downtown Tchepone
- 2 You Get What You Ask For
- 3 Killing Myself
- 4 Trash Hauling
- 5 A Guy Whose Sarcasm Exceeded Mine
- 6 That Goddamn Fucking Steel Mill
- 7 Prisoner
- 8 A Sort of Leadership
- 9 Razzmatazz
- 10âWaiting with âThe Bombâ
- 11âThe Pornography of War
- 12âWorld-Class Warriors
- 13âFrom Russia, Without Love
- 14âWay Out of Step
- 15â& More
- Epilogue: Witnesses