Hundred Feet over Hell: Flying with the Men of the 220th Recon Airplane Company over I Corps and the DMZ, Vietnam 1968-1969

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Overview

A Hundred Feet Over Hell is the story of a handful of young pilots taking extraordinary risks to support those on the ground. Flying over Vietnam in two-seater Cessnas, they often made the difference between a soldier returning alive to his family or having the lonely sound of "Taps" played over his grave. Based on extensive interviews, and often in the men's own words, A Hundred Feet Over Hell puts the reader in the plane as this intrepid band of U.S. Army aviators calls in fire support for the soldiers and marines of I Corps.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780760336335
  • Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 5/10/2009
  • Edition description: First
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 323,073
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Jim Hooper is a war correspondent and author. Wounded twice while covering Africa as a freelance journalist and photographer, he has reported on wars in Angola, Chad, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, and Uganda. He is equally familiar with the Balkans, filing dispatches from Bosnia (where he was captured by Muslim fundamentalists and escaped execution only by extraordinary good luck), Croatia, and Montenegro. His most recent book was Bloodsong! Firsthand Accounts of a Modern Private Army in Action: Angola 1993–1995. The younger brother of a wounded veteran of the 220th RAC, he lives in London.

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"Contact! We're taking fire!" Behind the voice [on the radio] were sharp bursts from automatic weapons. . . .

[Pilot Doc Clement] counted at least twenty-five enemy soldiers in the open and muzzle flashes from more concealed in the undergrowth. . . . "DASC, this is Catkiller 1-8. We have troops in contact on the 292 out of channel 109 at fourteen nautical miles. I need that air [support] now!" . . .

"Mustang," [Bob] Happe called [from the back seat], "this is Southern Hotel. How's your cover? Over."

"Southern Hotel, we got good cover, but we can't hold on long!"
"Roger, Mustang, we'll have arty on the way ASAP!" Happe switched his radio back to the marine artillery battery at Con Thien. "Cherry Buster 6, this is Southern Hotel. Fire mission. Over." He was giving the battery commander the coordinates when DASC confirmed that the first flight would be wheels up out of Chu Lai in less than two minutes.

Doc shook his head. Chu Lai was 150 miles to the south, at least twenty minutes flying time for the jets. Something needed to be done now: anything to buy time. He lifted his M16 from where it was slung on the map light and chambered a round. A quick glance over his shoulder showed his backseater doing the same. "Ready to go, Hap?"

"Let's do it, Doc!"

Table of Contents

Maps vii

Preface xi

Chapter 1 The Mission 1

Chapter 2 The Apprentice 19

Chapter 3 Catkiller on Crutches 31

Chapter 4 Black Ace to Catkiller 35

Chapter 5 The Lighter Side 49

Chapter 6 Yellow Brick Road 65

Chapter 7 My People Need Help 81

Chapter 8 Catkiller Down 121

Chapter 9 Bombing Halt 133

Chapter 10 Air to Air 147

Chapter 11 Thanksgiving and Christmas 161

Chapter 12 Gypsy Rose Lee 171

Chapter 13 Night Contact 187

Chapter 14 Taking the Edge Off 201

Chapter 15 Lean On Me 207

Chapter 16 Busy Month of June 221

Epilogue 227

Appendix 239

Glossary 241

Index 249

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  • Posted March 9, 2010

    A Book for Today's Generation!

    "A Hundred Feet Over Hell" by Jim Hooper tells the story of the extreme bravery of your fathers and grandfathers who flew little Piper Cub airplanes into enemy fire to assist your fathers and grandfathers fighting on the ground during the Vietnam war.

    Jim Hooper has the knowledge and ability through his skillfully written words to take the reader back to 1968 and remind us of another Great Generation.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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