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Phantom Reflections by Mike McCarthy American Fighter Pilot Vietnam Soft Cover
Phantom Reflections by Mike McCarthy
Stackpole Military History Series
An American fighter pilot in Vietnam
Soft Cover
192 pages
Copyright 2007
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 A Very Restless Night1
2 Clouds Gather7
3 The Long Wait12
4 The Die Is Cast22
5 First Mission32
6 Christmas and New Year's 196740
7 "You're OK!" "No, I'm Not!"45
8 A Typical Mission 51
9 MiGs64
10 The Threat Unseen76
11 The Ops Clerk Kid81
12 Lead's Hit!84
13 It's Sunday!91
14 A Very Memorable Mission97
15 Sydney103
16 Slippery when Wet110
17 Dean St. Pierre116
18 "Shillelagh"122
19 The Roman 2 Episode127
20 Good Bye Ubon135
21 Saigon142
22 Heading Back Home148
23 Final Reflections as Time Goes By154
Appendix A171
Index 187
ON THE BACK COVER
As the Vietnam War raged thousands of miles away Mike McCarthy completed his flight training in the United States, eager to get into the war and afraid it would end before he could play his part. He needn't have worried. By 1967, McCarthy was flying his F-4 Phantom II fighter with the U.S. Air Force's 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, also known as
Satan's Angels. By the time he finished his tour, he had completed 124 missions in the intense air war over North Vietnam and Laos and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross.
MIKE MCCARTHY retired from the U.S. Air Force as a colonel in 1990, finishing his military career as chief of staff at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
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