Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot's Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions over Laos During the Vietnam War - Brossura

Halliday, John T.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312942036 ISBN 13: 9780312942038

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2007

Riassunto

A former 606 Special Operations Squadron member recounts his 1970 top-secret combat mission over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail, during which fellow pilots and he struggled for survival by utilizing daredevil piloting tactics to outmaneuver thousands of anti-aircraft shells. Reprint.

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L'autore:

JOHN T. HALLIDAY retired from American Airlines as a Boeing 767 captain. He served in the military for twenty-six years and retired as a lieutenant colonel. A decorated war hero, he logged more than eight hundred hours of combat time in Southeast Asia and the Gulf War. Flying Through Midnight is his first book. Please visit the author’s Web site at www.flyingthroughmidnight.com.

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A WAR THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE
In 1970, a young American pilot arrived at a dusty, half-deserted U.S. air force base and found himself on a battlefront he'd never heard of: the secret black-ops war in Laos.

A MISSION YOU COULDN'T TRAIN FOR
John T. Halliday was instructed to fly a retrofitted C-123 transport to direct night-time air strikes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The mission sent Halliday, his plane, and his fellow men into the teeth of enemy fire--and required breaking every rule he had ever learned about flying.
A TRUE STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE AND SURVIVAL AGAINST ALL ODDS
In this compelling account, Halliday takes us inside a top-secret air base and into the cockpit of an antiquated plane that was a lifeline for special forces on the ground. As he chronicles his evolution from a by-the-book flyboy to a daring warrior of the night, he also tells the story of a truly heroic, seemingly impossible flight: of how he and his men survived a horrific engagement with the enemy, attempted a harrowing a crash landing, and what they found deep inside a forbidden land...
"An eternal story that transcends any war."--John J. Nance, author of Free Flight

"This book is as much about confronting the past as describing it."--USA Today

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• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312942036
• ISBN 13: 9780312942038
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 468