Flying with the Spooks: Memoir of a Navy Linguist in the Vietnam War Shippey Herbert
Flying with the Spooks: Memoir of a Navy Linguist in the Vietnam War Shippey Herbert As a linguist with the U.S. Flying with fellow spooks over the Gulf of Tonkin and Laos, his duty was to protect…
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Flying with the Spooks: Memoir of a Navy Linguist in the Vietnam War Shippey Herbert
As a linguist with the U.S. Flying with fellow spooks over the Gulf of Tonkin and Laos, his duty was to protect American aircraft and ships threatened by MiG 21 fighter jet activity. Navy Fleet Support Detachment in Da Nang, Herb Shippey was assigned to air reconnaissance during the Vietnam War.
Shippey's introspective memoir recounts dangerous missions aboard non-combat aircraft (EC-121 Warning Star, P-3 Orion, A-3 Sky Warrior), rocket attacks and typhoons, and the details of his service, some of them classified for forty