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Informationen zum Autor Reginald Hathorn is a retired U.S. Air Force officer with more than 6,000 hours in twenty-three different aircraft. He has been an outdoor writer for more than forty years. He lives in Louisiana. Klappentext In-the-cockpit perspective on aerial warfare during the Vietnam WarMany never-before-heard stories--some of them tragic, others humorousAt 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. Zusammenfassung At the chaotic height of the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969, Maj. Reginald Hathorn flew 229 combat missions as a forward air controller for the U.S. Air Force under the call sign of Nail 31. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; A Call to Go to War; Check-out Time; To Find a Way Out of My job; A New World; Welcome to the War in Laos; Cricket West; A Hotbed of War; Scratch One Gun; The Mission That Never Was; Merry Christmas; Mission Failure; Go Get the POW's; Christening of a Night Fighter; A Finale.
