Gunbird Driver A Marine Huey Pilot''s War in Vietnam.
Ballentine, David A.
Gunbird Driver A Marine Huey Pilot''s War in Vietnam. - New York : Naval Institute Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (474 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Introduction: The Aircraft and Training; PART 1: EARLY GOING; Chapter 1: Geography and the CO; Chapter 2: Capt. Steve Shoemaker, "Rocketman"; Chapter 3: Embarrassments, Assessments, and a Job; Chapter 4: Flying "The Brute"; Chapter 5: Ky Ha Miscellany I; PART 2: SHIPBOARD OPS AND A TRIP TO THE Repose; Chapter 6: Dickhouse I; Chapter 7: Fuel, Friendship, and Doctors; Chapter 8: Sarcocystus Lindemanni: A Trip to the USS Repose; PART 3: THE MIDDLE AND LATE MONTHS Chapter 9: First Lieutenant Ballentine, Purveyor of Beer and PornChapter 10: First Lt. Steve Wilson Is Shot Down; Chapter 11: Retrieving the Ontos Crew; Chapter 12: Army Parts; Chapter 13: Flying Miss World and Vic Damone; Chapter 14: Downed by Fire; Chapter 15: Tactical Air Controller (Airborne) and Adjusting Arty and Naval Gunfire; Chapter 16: First Lt. Lyle Motley Gets His Sinus Cavity Crushed; Chapter 17: Alcohol and Abuse; Chapter 18: Ky Ha Miscellany II; PART 4: STUDIES AND OBSERVATION GROUP (SOG); Chapter 19: A Few Words on SOG; Chapter 20: Insertion; Chapter 21: Extraction I Chapter 22: Extraction IIPART 5: HEADING OUT AND EPILOGUE; Chapter 23: Checking Out and the Journey; Chapter 24: Life after 'Nam; Appendix: VMO-6 Deaths in Vietnam; Index; About the Author
Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E''s in Marine Observation Squadron 6. The book provides information about the missions, operations, and the living conditions at Ky Ha, and about the fellow Marines with whom he served. It also contains several chapters on shipboard operation from deployment aboard the USS Princeton. Parts of the book are deadly serious, even sad, as must be the case with any treatment of war; other parts are largely descriptive, and some circumstances and situations are even humorous. The time was 1966.
9781612518787
Ballentine, David A.
Ballentine, David A.
Military helicopters.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
Military helicopters--Vietnam.
Electronic Books.
DS558 / .G863 2014
Gunbird Driver A Marine Huey Pilot''s War in Vietnam. - New York : Naval Institute Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (474 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Introduction: The Aircraft and Training; PART 1: EARLY GOING; Chapter 1: Geography and the CO; Chapter 2: Capt. Steve Shoemaker, "Rocketman"; Chapter 3: Embarrassments, Assessments, and a Job; Chapter 4: Flying "The Brute"; Chapter 5: Ky Ha Miscellany I; PART 2: SHIPBOARD OPS AND A TRIP TO THE Repose; Chapter 6: Dickhouse I; Chapter 7: Fuel, Friendship, and Doctors; Chapter 8: Sarcocystus Lindemanni: A Trip to the USS Repose; PART 3: THE MIDDLE AND LATE MONTHS Chapter 9: First Lieutenant Ballentine, Purveyor of Beer and PornChapter 10: First Lt. Steve Wilson Is Shot Down; Chapter 11: Retrieving the Ontos Crew; Chapter 12: Army Parts; Chapter 13: Flying Miss World and Vic Damone; Chapter 14: Downed by Fire; Chapter 15: Tactical Air Controller (Airborne) and Adjusting Arty and Naval Gunfire; Chapter 16: First Lt. Lyle Motley Gets His Sinus Cavity Crushed; Chapter 17: Alcohol and Abuse; Chapter 18: Ky Ha Miscellany II; PART 4: STUDIES AND OBSERVATION GROUP (SOG); Chapter 19: A Few Words on SOG; Chapter 20: Insertion; Chapter 21: Extraction I Chapter 22: Extraction IIPART 5: HEADING OUT AND EPILOGUE; Chapter 23: Checking Out and the Journey; Chapter 24: Life after 'Nam; Appendix: VMO-6 Deaths in Vietnam; Index; About the Author
Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E''s in Marine Observation Squadron 6. The book provides information about the missions, operations, and the living conditions at Ky Ha, and about the fellow Marines with whom he served. It also contains several chapters on shipboard operation from deployment aboard the USS Princeton. Parts of the book are deadly serious, even sad, as must be the case with any treatment of war; other parts are largely descriptive, and some circumstances and situations are even humorous. The time was 1966.
9781612518787
Ballentine, David A.
Ballentine, David A.
Military helicopters.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
Military helicopters--Vietnam.
Electronic Books.
DS558 / .G863 2014