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Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969

Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969

Paperback

Biographies GeneralVietnam War

ISBN10: 1476687366
ISBN13: 9781476687360
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 6 2021
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Before unmanned combat drones, there was the Grumman OV-1C Mohawk, a twin-engine turboprop fixed-wing reconnaissance aircraft loaded with state-of-the-art target detection systems. Crewed by a pilot and observer, it flew at treetop level by day, taking panoramic photographs. By night it scanned the landscape from 800 feet with side-looking airborne radar (SLAR) and infrared. This lively, detailed memoir recounts the author's 1968-1969 tour with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, serving as a technical observer (T.O.) aboard an unarmed Mohawk, searching for elusive enemy forces near the DMZ and along the Laotian and Cambodian borders, dodging mountains in the dark and avoiding anti-aircraft fire.

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