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Naked in Da Nang by Mike Jackson & Tara Dixon-Engel Soft Cover
Naked in Da Nang by Mike Jackson & Tara Dixon-Engel
A forward air controller in Vietnam
Soft Cover
303 pages
Copyright 2010
CONTENTS
Foreword by Frank Borman 7
PrefaceA Charmed Life 9
Chapter 1The FACs of Life 13
Chapter 2Troops in Contact 20
Chapter 3A Cocoon Called Tipp 41
Chapter 4An Officer and a Gentleman? 53
Chapter 5The Year of Fifty-three Weeks 66
Chapter 6I Will Survive 84
Chapter 7Flying Blind 96
Chapter 8Bamboozled 111
Chapter 9Life with Charlie 121
Chapter 10The Rockets' Red Glare 143
Chapter 11Rats! 161
Chapter 12Naked in Da Nang 171
Chapter 13Heaven and Hell 219
Chapter 14Spring Forward, Fall Back 246
Epilogue"We Never Got Our Parade" 277
Co-Author's Note 281
Afterword 284
Acknowledgments 290
Glossary 292
ON THE BACK COVER
NAKED IN DA NANG A Forward Air Controller in Vietnam
Searching for an elusive enemy, forward air controllers (FACs) in Vietnam flew low and slow, often offering themselves as bait to draw fire from NVA troops. In addition to the perils of enemy firewhich ranged from lucky AK-47 shots to .51-caliber machine guns and SA-7 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missilesthey also had to watch out for B-52 Arc-Light strikes and friendly artillery fire. FACs were regarded by many of their aviator brethren as insane, suicidal, or both.
This was Mike Jackson's life for 366 days. In spring 1972 he hugged the DMZ, fighting back against the massive NVA Easter Offensive, controlling the bomb-, rocket-, and napalm-laden attack aircraft whose ordnance made the difference between life and death for friendly units on the ground. He was also part of the team of FACs who managed the rescue of BAT-21, immortalized in the movie of the same name. With a keen eye for the absurdities of a combat zone, Jackson's irreverent storytelling makes Naked in Da Nang a personal and darkly humorous take on the Vietnam War.
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