TROTTI : Phantom over Vietnam (fülszöveg)
What is it like to fly a fighter in combat? More specifically, what was it like to fly an F-4 Phantom in combat over Vietnam? The answers are in this exciting personal account by ex-Marine Corps pilot John Trotti, who flew over 600 missions during his two tours of duty there.
Reading Phantom over Vietnam is the closest thing to actually flying a fighter plane in war. The reader experiences the life of a fighter pilot – from the boredom of the Hot Pad (playing acey-deucy and waiting for the Scramble) to moments of terror as a SAM pops out of the cloud deck, heading straight for your plane. You ride in the cockpit with Trotti as he bores straight down to target and pickles his bombs, feeling the exhilaration of no-holds-barred flying, then a stunned sense of loss as a friend's plane goes down in flames. You see a pilot's innermost fears and learn his feelings about war.
John Trotti always wanted to be a fighter pilot, and in Phantom over Vietnam you discover what that means: flying is an endless fascination and eventually becomes an obsession, "more than a way of life . . . it is life." And the flying in Vietnam was unbeatable. Trotti began his first tour with a sense of optimism and purpose – he was a military aviator, trained and ready for the job he would do. But when he returned to Vietnam the second time, there had been a stunning change: optimism had given way to pessimism, and the frustration of the combatants had led to bitterness and cruelty. His second tour began with a sense of detachment and foreboding: he had become a "precision instrument of destruction," with death merely another participant in a game he didn't wish to end.
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