Chickenhawk
by Mason, RobertEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-18
Publisher(s): Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawkhave been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the conflict, this straight-from-the-shoulder account tells the electrifying truth about the helicopter war in Vietnam. This is Robert Mason’s astounding personal story of men at war. A veteran of more than one thousand combat missions, Mason gives staggering descriptions that cut to the heart of the combat experience: the fear and belligerence, the quiet insights and raging madness, the lasting friendships and sudden death—the extreme emotions of a chickenhawk” in constant danger.
Author Biography
Robert Mason enlisted in the army in 1964 and flew more than 1,000 helicopter combat missions before being discharged in 1968.
Table of Contents
| Author's Note | p. 7 |
| Map | p. 11 |
| Bell HU-1 Iroquois ("Huey") | p. 12 |
| Prologue | p. 17 |
| Virgins | |
| Wings | p. 21 |
| An August Cruise | p. 51 |
| Setting Up Camp | p. 70 |
| Happy Valley | p. 113 |
| Ia Drang Valley | p. 164 |
| Swave and Deboner | |
| The Holidays | p. 233 |
| The Rifle Range | p. 253 |
| Bong Son Valley | p. 280 |
| Tension | p. 321 |
| Short-Timer's Blues | |
| Grounded | p. 351 |
| Transfer | p. 371 |
| La Guerrilla Bonita | p. 400 |
| Tell Me You're Afraid | p. 434 |
| Epilogue: And Then What Happened? | p. 464 |
| Afterword | p. 477 |
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