Runway Visions: An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968

by David Kirk Vaughan

In February 1967, Air Force Lieutenant Vaughan arrived at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan to begin 14 months as a C-130 Hercules pilot, airlifting supplies and troops throughout southeast Asia. Feeling well suited, Vaughan had volunteered for the duty, but little had he realized the pressure associated with flying the heavy cargo plane under combat conditions and taking off and landing on the short runways that dotted the Vietnamese countryside...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786404884
• ISBN13: 9780786404889
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher