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Good account of Randy Cunningham's dogfight?
Can anybody point me to a good account of Randy Cunningham's dogfight in
Vietnam? Book or magazine form is okay. D |
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D wrote:
Can anybody point me to a good account of Randy Cunningham's dogfight in Vietnam? Book or magazine form is okay. D It's not a book or magazine, but I remember years ago Rep. Cunningham giving a talk about what happened on that mission in an interview on the History Channel. I think the show was called Weapons at War. You might want to see if you can find that episode on video. ALV |
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Can anybody point me to a good account of Randy Cunningham's dogfight in Vietnam? Book or magazine form is okay. D Can't remember the author but look for the book "One Day in a Long War". It goes through one of the busiest days and Cunninghams fight was in there. MAH |
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It's been awhile since I read the book, but John Sherwood's
"Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War" (New York University Press, May 2004) held a pretty detailed account ISTR. Will Dossel Last of the Steeljaws (VAW-122) |
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There's always the first person account in Cunningham's book
"Fox Two", and I'm pretty sure that Wilcox' book about the formation of TopGun, "Scream of Eagles", includes an account. Lou Drendel's "and Kill MiGs", 1st and 2nd ed. for sure and probably 3rd., will include Cunningham's account of all 5 kills. In short, you can find more accounts of Cunningham and Driscoll's fight on 10 May than just about any other single occurrence of the air war in Vietnam. I'd probably go with Ethell and Price in "One Day in a Long War", as IIRR they listened to/read the radio transcripts as well as interviewed many of the other aircrew involved, so you get a more objective version of events than that based on one or two people's always fallible memories/perspectives. Guy |
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