Pop smoke -- The beginning -- Quantico -- Pensacola -- The edge of the envelope -- Phu Bai -- Water buffalo -- The Sikorsky bounce -- Flying for the ROKs -- Incoming or outgoing? -- Hill 818 -- The twilight zone -- Final days -- Departure -- Boat ride from hell -- Coming home -- You can run but you cannot hide -- Epilogue -- Military history of Richard W. Gehweiler.
Summary:
"By 1969, the Sikorski H-34 was an older helicopter with severe limitations for combat duty in Vietnam. For pilots like U.S. Marine Lieutenant Rick Gehweiler, the good news was it could still take significant damage and keep flying. His vivid memoir narrates his harrowing, at times deadly flight missions under fire, as experienced in the cockpit, along with anecdotes of tragedy and humor from his 13-month tour through Da Nang and Phu Bai"-- Provided by publisher.
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