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Flying with the spooks : memoir of a Navy linguist in the Vietnam war / Herbert Shippey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shippey, Herbert, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shippey, Herbert, 1944-.
- Shippey, Herbert.
- United States. Navy.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Linguists.
- Vietnam.
- United States. Navy. Fleet Support Detachment--Biography.
- United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Military intelligence--United States.
- Linguists--Vietnam--Biography.
- Military intelligence.
- Military operations, Aerial--American.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- x, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Memoir of a Navy linguist in the Vietnam war
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
- Summary:
- "As a linguist with the U.S. Navy Fleet Support Detachment in Da Nang, Herb Shippey was assigned to air reconnaissance during the Vietnam War. Flying with fellow "spooks" over the Gulf of Tonkin and Laos, his duty was to protect American aircraft and ships threatened by MiG 21 fighter jet activity. Shippey's introspective memoir recounts dangerous missions aboard non-combat aircraft (EC-121 Warning Star, P-3 Orion, A-3 Sky Warrior), rocket attacks and typhoons, and the details of his service, some of them classified for forty years"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Entering the Navy and Recruit Training
- ch. 2 Washington, D.C., and New York
- ch. 3 Language Training
- ch. 4 Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas
- ch. 5 En Route to Vietnam
- ch. 6 San Miguel, Philippines
- ch. 7 Arrival in Da Nang
- ch. 8 Standing Night Watch
- ch. 9 Flight Duty
- ch. 10 Flying Dangerously
- ch. 11 Daily Life in Da Nang
- ch. 12 Vignettes
- ch. 13 Rocket Attacks
- ch. 14 Typhoons
- ch. 15 Stress
- ch. 16 Men of the Fleet Support Detachment
- ch. 17 Bennie Trips
- ch. 18 SERE School
- ch. 19 Return to the Philippines
- ch. 20 Da Nang Again
- ch. 21 Final Days in the Philippines
- ch. 22 Return to the World
- ch. 23 Fort Meade, Maryland
- ch. 24 Fort Meade Continued
- ch. 25 Home.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476686721
- 1476686726
- OCLC:
- 1291567124
- Publisher Number:
- 99990016151
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