As a child Robert Mason dreamed of levitation – years later he was flying with the 1st Air Cavalry in the Vietnam War. At 14 I stumbled across his account of his training and services at the stick of a Huey 1H in my step-father’s book collection. “Chickenhawk” in me a fascination of two things at an impressionable age: helicopters and the Vietnam War.
I have chosen these books because they tie up the persepectives on some key aspects of the Vietnam war, namely:
- What lead from the French being defeated to the American Invasion.
- The experimental use of Helicopters and the Airborne Cavalry.
- The ground fight from the persepctive of the foot soldiers (Grunts).
- The differences in tactic between the PAVN/VC and the US Military.
- Dispelling of certain myths surrounding the war and its veterans.
