- from the Spud Club wall in Phu Bai, I Corps
This is a fast moving, heartfelt account of nearly two complete years of intensive combat flying in a single-pilot, Grumman OV-1 Mohawk, and over 500 combat missions in Laos, North Vietnam, and a few South Vietnam missions.
During the Vietnam War by 1969 there was only one Army aviation unit that flew the armed Grumman OV-1 Mohawks exclusively in North Vietnam, Laos, and in the "CIA's Secret War in Northern Laos" until the very end of the war. The other four Mohawk units flew only in their respective corps, I-IV Corps in South Vietnam.
At one point, with about 16 assigned aircraft to the unit, we lost a staggering 28 Mohawks in less than year and then dozens more lost to combat or crashes as the years went along.
This book is a collection of mostly individual events, some short, some many pages long, so you can read though parts of the book, put it down, and come back to another section of details about the crashes, the shoot downs and missing guys.
In the CIA war we flew nightly combat missions into the Plain of Jars, sometimes with Air America T-28s, and always with Air Force AC-119 Stinger and Laotian AC-47 Spooky gunships. Our missions each night was to find, attack, and kill the trucks and tanks coming out of China across northern Laos and down into the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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