Bomb-laden strike jets heading for targets deep into North Vietnam, Air Cavalry UH-1 'Hueys' low down rushing to interdict 'Charlie' forces caught in the open, a US Navy destroyer steaming towards well earned rest and recreation in a Japanese port. All shared a common peril - the weather. Most of the personnel in the front line during the Vietnam War probably never gave a thought to the 'Weather Birds' that patrolled the vast expanse of ocean on their behalf. If they did, they probably thought it was an easy posting - far from harm's way. Yet Southeast Asia's Pacific coast plays host to some of the most vicious and complex weather systems known to man and to fall foul of them could prove fatal.
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