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Along for the Ride - Navigating Through the Cold War, Vietnam, Laos & More (Hardcover)
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Along for the Ride - Navigating Through the Cold War, Vietnam, Laos & More (Hardcover)
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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. 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, his elderly father
bewildered by his war-hardened attitude and black sense of humor.
Contextualising 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 career - he joined upon graduating
university in 1955 and his first operational assignment was as a
B47 Stratojet navigator-bomber at Strategic Air Command - trained
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 pilots - many of
whom who he depended on for his very survival - shines through his
desciptions of combat missions and being "along for the ride."
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