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1 online resource |
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First Mission -- The Letter -- Oakland, California: One of the Gateways to Vietnam -- The Outhouse Transaction -- The Rats versus Mcmann -- A Typical Day: There Was No Such Thing; Sometimes They Don't Miss Their Target -- Dad, Can I Use The Family Car? -- Tents versus Hooches -- Midnight Requisitions Courtesy of The United States Marine Corps -- He Said That He Would Not Be Going Home -- The Marines and the Boomerang Does Come Back -- The Royal Australian Air Force -- Moonlight, B-52s and Battleship -- LZ in The Morning and Jungle Clearings -- All Three Landing Gear Wheels Are Supposed to Come Down, Aren't They? -- The Thief at An Khe -- The Big Move South -- Haka -- Guard Duty, Vung Tau Style -- The Green Berets Asked Us to Find a Concealed .51-Caliber Machine Gun -- Flat Tire and a Ride in a Loach with the 1/9th Cavalry Scout Platoon -- Black Knight 22, You Have Two Bogeys Approaching from the Rear -- Cats Supposedly Have Nine Lives, How Many Do People Have? I Used Six or More of Mine on One Mission -- UFO and Something Else -- Vertigo, 37 MM Anti-Aircraft Guns, GCA Foul-Up and Trucks in the Michelin Rubber Plantation -- Incoming, and No, Lieutenant, You Cannot Fly Under That Bridge -- Short-Timer and Finally Home -- Military Awards and Service History |
| Summary |
"Before unmanned combat drones, there was the Grumman OV-1C Mohawk, a twin-engine turboprop fixed-wing reconnaissance aircraft loaded with state-of-the-art target detection systems. Crewed by a pilot and observer, it flew at treetop level by day, taking panoramic photographs. By night it scanned the landscape from 800 feet with side-looking airborne radar (SLAR) and infrared. Russell Pettis' lively, detailed memoir recounts his 1968-1969 tour with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, where served as a technical observer (T.O.) aboard an unarmed Mohawk, searching for elusive enemy forces near the DMZ and along the Laotian and Cambodian borders, dodging mountains in the dark and avoiding anti-aircraft fire"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Pettis, Russell, 1946-
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United States. Army. Cavalry Division, 1st.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Army. Cavalry Division, 1st fast |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Aerial operations, American.
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Mohawk (Reconnaissance aircraft)
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Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
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HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War.
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Military operations, Aerial -- American
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Mohawk (Reconnaissance aircraft)
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Soldiers
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United States
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476645254 |
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1476645256 |
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