No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew
chief Al Sever that the odds didn’t look good. He volunteered for
the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over
hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life.
But that wasn’t going to stop Specialist Sever.
From Da Nang to Cu Chi and the Mekong Delta, Sever spent
thirty-one months in Vietnam, fighting in eleven of the war’s
sixteen campaigns. Every morning when his gunship lifted off, often
to the clacking and muzzle flashes of AK-47s hidden in the dawn
fog, Sever knew he might not return. This raw, gritty,
gut-wrenching firsthand account of American boys fighting and dying
in Vietnam captures all the hell, horror, and heroism of that
tragic war.
關於作者:
AL SEVER, a crew member on various types of
helicopters, served in Vietnam from the heavy combat days of 1968
to the moral and physical disintegration of our forces in 1972.
From the Delta to the DMZ, he observed the varied facets of the war
as the opposing armies clashed and maneuvered throughout the
country. He lives in Montoursville, Pennsylvania.