Vietnam era naval aviation memoirs book by local author

[southwestforests]

This Vietnam era naval aviation memoirs book by local author could be characterized as transcript of an oral history told to his grandson.

Hmm, quite interesting what Naval Aviators will do when told to take their ELINT version of the A3 Skywarrior and do whatever they feel is necessary to get emissions readings from & photos of the Soviet's brand new carrier Moskva in the Mediterranean.

(that 'whatever' opens up a lot of options to the creative aviator!) 😂

 

He was also involved in the USS Oriskany fire.

 

Book relates what it was like to live the Naval Aviator life, it isn't about the histories of the organizations or the technical details of the different aircraft mentioned.

This fall I met the author in a creative writer's group in our little county seat farm burg which used to have a decent privately run military school, which the author attended for both high school and some college. 

I'm presently halfway through the 121 page book; author gave it to me for Christmas, just because, on the spur of the moment, at writer's group meeting last Saturday.