Phantom Reflections: An American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam (Stackpole Military History Series)
- ISBN13: 9780811735544
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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
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Review by Johnny Allred for Phantom Reflections: An American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam (Stackpole Military History Series)
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I am reading the stackpole ed. right now and I like it!. It’s a good war story about what it’s like in war. It’s vietnam, fighter pilot’s and combat in the f-4 phantom. The ups, the downs,and the fear, the hole shooting match with 45 photos.
Review by C. L. Johnson for Phantom Reflections: An American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam (Stackpole Military History Series)
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Good book, interesting reading without being to wordy. The author tells a mini life story centered around his USAF flying career during the Vietnamese war. Col. McCarthy takes us through his last days of college and USAF ROTC, then to USAF undergraduate pilot training (UPT) then to upgrade training in the F-4C. From there we head to Thailand where he’s assigned to one of the premiere F-4 units in the SEATO (South East Asian Theatre of Operations). He details his responsibilities as a fighter pilot, introduces us to the other half of his F-4 team, his various Weapon Systems Operator (WSO). Then we begin flying missions. There’s the wake-up, aircraft pre-flght, takeoff and join-up; there the searching for the tankers that was so necessary for any “Route Pack” mission being flown from a Thai base. There’s the mission then return to base. The author takes us, the reader, on these missions in a fluid narrative that rarely dwoodles. For one last added enjoyment, the author actually flies the right seat on a Navy ‘COD’ that lands on an aircraft carrier: a first for me having an Air Force pilot explain the exhileration of landing on the deck of a US Navy carrier. All and all I would highly recommend this book.