Flying high from Pleiku to Chu Lai
Subtitle: Vietnam helicopter stories
By: by George Smith
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Instantpublisher.com
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Collierville, Tennessee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780578120133
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; American Aerial operations; American Personal narratives; UH-1 (Helicopter); Aerial Military operations; American; United States. Army. Aviation Company, 71st; United States
Description: George Smith (Smitty) was born in 1943 and grew up in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. He joined the Army at 17 and shortly after was sent to Pleiku, Vietnam, where he served as an avionics technician and received a couple of air medals flying door gunner in H21's and Huey-type helicopters. After a few stateside assignments, Smitty went to flight school and returned to Vietnam in 1968 for a second tour as a helicopter pilot. Assigned to the 71st Assault Helicopter Company he flew slicks, won a couple more medals and logged 1267 hours of combat flight time for the Americal Division at Chu Lai. --BACK COVER.
Table of contents: title: Prolog (war story); title: My year in Vietnam "simplified"; title: Before my first tour in Vietnam; title: Camp Holloway at Pleiku; title: Before and during flight school; title: Chu Lai, Viet Nam; title: Smitty's training; title: Combat assault (CA); title: Command and Control (C & C); title: Slick driver missions; title: 94th Signal Detachment; title: Weapons and gunships; title: Aircraft Commander (AC) and training newbies; title: Special missions (SM); title: Other war stories; title: Getting out of Vietnam alive; title: Tour of duty Germany; title: Civilian to 2013.