The Great Muckrock and Rosie - Hardcover

Detwiler, Ross C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1458203107 ISBN 13: 9781458203106

Publisher: Abbott Press, 2012

Synopsis

Most of America experienced the Vietnam War only in the form that was delivered in the evening news. The actual fighting and sacrifices in that far off jungle were borne, as is still true to this day, by a miniscule fraction of the population and their families.

There are plenty of history books and scholars that break the war down into miniature, bite-sized chunks of history, politics, science, and statistics. The Great Muckrock and Rosie, however, isn't about accounting for the war. It is about the fighter pilots who fought that war in the air.

Fly with the men who gave their all in support their fellow troops on the ground in South Vietnam. Fly with them also as they leave the South and enter North Vietnam and Laos in an effort to dam the flow of supplies arriving through the wide open harbor at Haiphong. They pushed on, mission after mission, completing their assigned tasks for sake of doing what they thought was right.

Also meet the women in their lives. Some were adoring wives that waited at home, with little children, for dad to return. Some were single, unattached, and looking for the spice in life that a fighter pilot on leave could provide.

About this title

About the Author:

Ross C. Detwiler graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1966. Two Vietnam tours flying fighters and an additional twenty-five years of service in the Air National Guard earned him twenty three Air Medals, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Purple Heart, and the Legion of Merit. He currently lives in Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbott Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1458203107
• ISBN 13: 9781458203106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252