Two Days of Rolling Thunder - Softcover

Deas, Robert S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956982409 ISBN 13: 9780956982407

Publisher: Y2B Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Two Days of Rolling Thunder is a compelling non-fiction tale dating back to the Vietnam War. Focused on the first day of the two-day air strike against the Thai Nguyen [tie new-WEN] steel mill, North Vietnam, during Operation ROLLING THUNDER, March 1967.

A United States Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilot in the midst of his tour of duty in 1967, Deas talks the reader through the first day of strikes - and in particular, the mission that he flew - using a truly unique literary approach.

Deas addresses the reader as though they were a new F-105 pilot. He guides them through the first day, from mission planning to mission execution and subsequent debrief. In doing so, he candidly gives the reader the opportunity to understand the emotions, thoughts and fears that fighter pilots during the Vietnam War grappled with every day.

The text provides a rare insight into the harrowing experience of combat in the skies of North Vietnam, whether that be the unsettling thoughts that enter the mind at breakfast time when the mission lies ahead, or the raw emotion that is felt over the target while flack bursts all around.

The day on which Deas' story is told (10 March, 1967), and the mission that the author so candidly talks the reader through, proved seminal in the history of air combat. It was on this day and this mission that one Congressional Medal of Honor and one Air Force Cross would be won, that two MiGs would fall to the 20-mm cannon of a single F-105, that the famous "Pardo's Push" would take place, and that two F-105 crew members would start their journeys as long-time PoWs.

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Review:

There have been many books on Rolling Thunder and many on the F-105 mission. I've written a couple that I thought were pretty good. Bob Deas has made me envious of what he's done in Two Days of Rolling Thunder.

This one's a winner.

Ed Rasimus, Fighter Pilot and Best Selling Author of "When Thunder Rolled". --Book Review, September 2011

An outstanding job! When I completed the last pages, I put my helmet on the canopy rail, unbuckled my straps, wiped the sweat off my brow and climbed down the ladder -- or at least that is what I felt like doing as you really put me back in the cockpit for one more combat mission. Great work.

General (Ret) Jack I. Gregory, USAF (CINCPACAF 1986-1988) --Book Review, September 2011

I have read your book twice and I am convinced that I can neither add nor subtract anything that would make it better. It's damned good and should be of interest to any Thud driver or any poor sucker who flew in the North.

Bill Sparks, Fighter Pilot (2x F-105 Tours, Strike and Weasel, NVN) --Book Review, September 2011

We civilians with no military experience, really have only the most general sense of combat. It is very well written and we all need to read real, straightforward, unromanticized accounts of what it means to defend this wonderful country of ours. I'd very much like my sons and my teenage grandson to read it.

Eleanor K. --Book Review, September 2011

From the Publisher:

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About this edition

• Publisher: Y2B Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0956982409
• ISBN 13: 9780956982407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104
• Editor: Davies Steve