Download or read book A Backseat View from the Phantom written by Fleet S. Lentz, Jr., Col USMCR (Ret) and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. Overcoming military regulations, he and his fellow Marines at The Rose Garden (Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong) kept sorely needed supplies moving in while moving combat troops out of Southeast Asia. His personal and accessible memoir describes how pilots and RIOs executed dangerous air-to-ground bombing missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos--quite different from the air-to-air warfare for which they had trained--and kept themselves mission-capable (and human) while surviving harsh circumstances.
Download or read book A Backseat View from the Phantom written by Fleet S. Lentz, Jr., Col USMCR (Ret) and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. Overcoming military regulations, he and his fellow Marines at The Rose Garden (Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong) kept sorely needed supplies moving in while moving combat troops out of Southeast Asia. His personal and accessible memoir describes how pilots and RIOs executed dangerous air-to-ground bombing missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos--quite different from the air-to-air warfare for which they had trained--and kept themselves mission-capable (and human) while surviving harsh circumstances.
Download or read book Air Power s Lost Cause written by Brian D. Laslie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam, this book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Brian Laslie traces the complete history of these air wars from the beginning of American involvement until final withdrawal. Detailing the competing roles and actions of the air elements of the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force, the author considers the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war. He also looks at the air war from the perspective of the North Vietnamese Air Force. Most important for understanding the US defeat, Laslie illustrates the perils of a nation building a one-dimensional fighting force capable of supporting only one type of war. ,
Download or read book Revenge of the Phantom Furball 2 written by Sam Hay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster strikes when Bonsai the pug chases Pickle the cat into the street, where she is flattened by a car. But the fact that Pickle has (almost) shuffled off her mortal coil isn’t her biggest concern; she is worried that Bonsai will pursue her sister Pebble into an early grave too, unless she and Joe teach the dog a lesson…
Download or read book A Cocoon With A View written by Alice Taylor and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in the last weeks of February, which now feels like a hundred years ago, we here in Innishannon were busy planning what was termed 'The Big Rake Off' of the dead grass on the long sloping bank beside the road coming into the village. Happily unaware of forthcoming events, we were totally focused on creating our wild flower bank: to get something like this going you need a 'metheal', a word which prior to the corona virus was unknown to anyone under 40. Then everything changed ... Exploring the themes of community, family and personal wellbeing, Alice Taylor examines a world changed utterly by the arrival of a once-in-a-century infectious disease. Heart-warming, reflective yet always practical, Alice is a wonderful guide in a world unlike the one we lived in only a few short months ago.
Download or read book Eagle Station written by Mark Berent and published by Mark Berent. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying novel of men at war in Vietnam, by the writer Tom Clancy calls the real thing. Filled with the searing, authentic voices of Vietnam, Eagle Station is a gripping, compelling tale of a race against the clock to save a crucial radar station. Berent's most dramatatic novel yet.
Download or read book Phantom Prey written by John Sandford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Chalk up another winner for [John Sandford] and his all-too-human hero” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Prey series. After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately the clues aren’t adding up—and then there’s the young Goth girl who keeps appearing and disappearing. Where does she come from? Where does she go every night? And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here? Something very bad, very dark, and as elusive as a phantom…
Download or read book Phantom Over Vietnam written by John Trotti and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his two separate tours in Vietnam, US Marine Corps pilot John Trotti was uniquely placed to see and experience the war in Vietnam from the war's early and optimistic days during his first tour, to the cynicism found in his second.
Download or read book The Phantom Tollbooth written by Norton Juster and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1988-10-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!
Download or read book Fortune Cookie Phantom written by Miles J. Anderson and published by Banzai West. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortune Cookie Phantom is a fast paced story for kids 8 to 12 years old. A fun and scary adventure that gets kids hooked on reading. Do you believe in superstitions? Jackson never did. But when he sticks his chopsticks up in a bowl of rice, mysterious and spooky things start to happen. He receives threatening messages in a fortune cookie and an evil phantom appears from the dead. Will Jackson and his friend Lucas destroy the phantom or will they become the phantom's next victims? Topics: scary books, scary stories, middle school, middle school book, middle school books, kids books, books for kids, book for kids, books for boys, children’s books, children’s fiction, children books ages 9 to 12, children books for age 8 and up, children books for age 8 to 12, kids books for ages 9 to 12, kids books for age 8 and up, kids books for age 8 to 12, kids mystery book, children's mystery book, children's mystery book, kids adventure book, children's adventure book, children adventure book, ages 9-12, Mysteries, Action & adventure, Growing up, AAPI, children’s asian literature, legends, myths, fables, asian story Other readers of Miles J. Anderson books enjoyed books by: Rick Riordan, Neil Gaiman, James Dashner, Mary Downing Hahn, Victoria Schwab, Alvin Schwartz, Jeff Kinney, Dan Gutman, R.L. Stine, Katherine Arden, Max Brallier, K.R. Alexander, Dustin Brady
Download or read book Phantom Strike written by William H. Lovejoy and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant thriller of high-tech warfare in which a covert plan employing robotic jets is the only means for saving the Middle East from total destruction. When the White House contacts Andrew Wyatt, ex-top gun turned covert specialist, he risks everything to penetrate Lybia's air defense and strike a blow for world peace.
Download or read book Phantom Wheel written by Tracy Deebs and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital apocalypse has arrived and the future is here in this addictive technological thriller full of twists and turns. Perfect for fans of Nerve! Being recruited by the CIA to join a top-secret intelligence program should be the opportunity of a lifetime. For Issa, it's a shot at creating a new and better life for herself and her siblings. For clever con artist Harper, it's a chance to bury the secrets of her troubled past and make sure that those secrets stay buried. But for Owen--honor student, star quarterback, and computer-hacking genius--it sounds like a trap. He's right. Owen discovers that instead of auditioning for the CIA, they've all been tricked by a multibillion-dollar tech company into creating the ultimate computer virus. It's called Phantom Wheel, and it's capable of hacking anyone on Earth, anywhere, at any time. And thanks to six teenagers, it's virtually unstoppable. Horrified by what they've done, the hackers must team up to stop the virus before the world descends into chaos. But working together is easier said than done, especially as the lines start to blur between teammate, friend, and more than friend. Because how do you learn to trust someone when you've spent your entire life exploiting that same trust in others?
Download or read book F 4 Phantom II Society written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (From the introduction) The Phantom was, and still is, used as a term of measurement in fighter talk. As this was written, some forty-two years after first flying, the Phantom is still receiving upgrades as a front fighter noise, smoke and forward motion by the Phantom. But the day will come when the Phantom will no longer take the skies in military service. Then it will only be seen by the public as an exotic flying warbird and perhaps on the ground of a museum where it joins other icons of the past. With this book the Phantom Society honors all those who have manufactured, worked, maintained, and flew the F-4. To those fortunate enough to have the Phantom in their past, even if only to see it fly, reminisce; to those in the future who will never see the Phantom fly, you missed the show.
Download or read book Phantom Reflections written by Mike McCarthy and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair-raising descriptions of aerial combat as seen from the cockpit of a fighter jet Thoughtful reflections on what it meant to fight in Vietnam 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 participate. He needn't have worried. By 1967, he 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. Before his tour ended, McCarthy completed 124 missions during the intense air war over North Vietnam and Laos and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. His memoir recreates the horror and exhilaration of air combat.
Download or read book Still Voices Still Heard written by James S.S. Armour and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sesquicentennial project of Presbyterian College tells the stories of thirteen individuals, chosen from among its graduates, faculty and benefactors, whose still voices represent in unique ways the history and influence of the college over the past 150 years. Each chapter presents a biography, a sermon, address, letter or report, followed by a commentary showing how this still voice spoke to the issues of the time and why it still should be heard. The themes remind us of the college's continuing mission to provide the Church with strong and visionary leaders. The book concludes with useful lists of Presbyterian College's students, scholars, supporters and societies down through the years.
Download or read book Spirituality Racism and the Phantom written by James T. Hollin, Jr. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality, Racism, and the Phantom: Tranquil Skies; The Mystique of Flight By: James T. Hollin, Jr. These memoirs and accounts present both a factual accounting of the revelations of the Spirit which sometimes unexpectedly occur while in flight and also, a reasoned, prayerful attempt to understand those revelations. Much of James T. Hollin, Jr.'s lifetime was spent recognizing that aerial flight can be used for many reasons, running the gamut from sky-diving, hot-air ballooning, low level sightseeing, the dropping of searing napalm on soldiers, med-evac flights, or entering a low Earth orbit in a space vehicle. Even more important, this has been the recounting of one person's appreciation of, and sometimes bewilderment with, the goodness of Divine happenstance, or Fate, intervening in the most unexpected and timely circumstances. The title provides an inkling of the wondrous and sometimes brutal activities of mankind in the sky. Since the first powered flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the air above the Earth has enveloped innumerable instances of lifesaving aerial exertions and ferocious warmongering. The skies have been used for the benefit of, and also, selected destruction of mankind. From personal experiences, and the bountiful history of flight, the author describes events that illustrate, in many respects, the nature of man. His interwoven memoirs include recitations of airborne bliss, nerve-wracking predicaments, and unexplained aerial phenomena. Centuries-old cultural and racial mores evoked personal conflicts which needed resolution within the author's own perception of spirituality and aviation. Often, a disastrous twist of fate will catch a person totally unawares. Such occurrences can cause apprehension, helplessness, or even terror, but frequently become immediately and unexplainably resolved. It is heartwarming when unseen forces, undefined by science or not fully articulated by religion, intervene in a lifesaving manner, especially in the sky. The writer regards flying as a combined physical, mental, and spiritual immersion in the medium of air, whether piloting a gigantic airliner or a hang glider. An aviator, by virtue of being "up front," should assume the role of a committed, principled leader, particularly when transporting passengers. It is an inspiring quality that is sorely needed in any environment.
Download or read book Ghostrider One written by Gerry Carroll and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of North SAR comes the second novel in Carroll's Vietnam trilogy. Commander Jim Hogan, U.S. Navy, has signed on for his second tour of duty. As executive officer of an A-4 Skyhawk attack squadron, his job is to renew confidence and prepare the men for a rescue mission that will test their skill and courage like never before.
