Black Cat 2-1: The True Story of a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and His Crew

摘要

In 1967, Bob Ford began a one year tour in Vietnam in which he would fly more than 1,000 missions in U.S. Army UH-1 Hueys. Since returning home and separating from the service, he has been managing one of his family's flour mills and enjoying civilian life. He writes that after a visit to a local school to tell his story, a teacher suggested he write a book. His depth of memory of details that date back almost 50 years is remarkable, and unless he was taping his entire tour, a reader has to assume the conversations depicted here are reconstructions-a reasonable accommodation for war memoirs.