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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Runway visions
    sub title: an American C-130 pilot's memoir of combat airlift operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968
  title info:
    title: American C-130 pilot's memoir of combat airlift operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968
  name:
    name part: Vaughan, David Kirk
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2024
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: "From February 1967 to April 1968, David Vaughan flew the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Southeast Asia. Initially a co-pilot, he moved up to aircraft commander and then instructor pilot as he mastered the challenges of landing on very short, unimproved airstrips in difficult terrain and bad weather. He describes his progression from inexperienced novice to veteran flyer as he learned his trade under combat conditions. Vaughan's airlift missions took him to more than 50 fields in South Vietnam, from the Delta in the south to the DMZ in the north, carrying supplies, mail, food, ammunition, and soldiers alive, wounded, and dead. Among his most harrowing flights were resupply missions into the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh during the most intensive days of the 1968 Tet offensive. This expanded and revised edition includes several new episodes, supplemented by more than 40 illustrations, twice as many as appeared in the original edition."--
  table of contents: New Guy -- The View from the Air -- Check Out -- On the Shuttle -- Rubber Plantations and Banana Runs -- Da Nang ABCCC -- Piece of Cake -- The Golf Course -- Blackout Flight to Khe Sanh -- Orbit City -- Phan Thiet in Blue -- Long Night over the South China Sea -- Dancing in the Alligator House -- Ground Pounder -- Gear and Flaps Man -- Taipei R&R -- Christmas at Khe Sanh -- Bao Loc in the Fog -- Tet -- Rising Dust at Dak To -- Blind Descent to Kham Duc -- Low Visibility at Quang Tri -- Bangkok Shuttle -- Old Head.
  note: David Kirk Vaughan.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Vaughan, David Kirk
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    genre: Personal narratives, American
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: Aerial operations, American
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Air Force
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Air pilots, Military
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Airlift, Military
    geographic: Vietnam
  subject:
    topic: Hercules (Turboprop transports)
  subject:
    topic: Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975
    topic: Opérations aériennes américaines
  subject:
    name:
      name part: États-Unis.
      name part: Air Force
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Pilotes d'aéronef militaires
    geographic: États-Unis
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Transports aériens militaires
    geographic: Viêt-nam
  classification: DS559.5 .V38 2024
  classification: 959.7/04348092 B
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Voices in American military aviation
  identifier: 9781476694689
  identifier: 1476694680
  identifier: 9781476652719
  identifier: 2024021199
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240506
    record change date: 20250318223814.3
    record identifier: in00005503179
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng