Only The Light Moves
Title | Only The Light Moves PDF eBook |
Author | Francis A Doherty |
Publisher | Air World |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2023-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1399057057 |
Only the Light Moves tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old US Army pilot who volunteered to fly covert S.O.G., or Studies and Observations Group, reconnaissance missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a region that came to represent not only the United States’ war with Vietnam, but also the “secret war” with Laos and Cambodia. But this is not simply a war story; it is a love story about flying. Captain Francis A. Doherty spent every day for ten months above the jungle battlefield in a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog. The first all-metal fixed-wing aircraft ordered for and by the United States Army following the Army Air Forces' separation from it in 1947, the single-engine Bird Dog was a liaison and observation aircraft. And for this role, it was completely unarmed. It was from the cockpit of a Bird Dog that Captain Doherty observed this illusive war, perhaps searching out enemy troop movements or calling down waiting F-4 Phantoms to strike a new target. It was a war in which he followed his father’s footsteps in his dream to become a pilot, and where he learned a compassion that extended both to his comrades and the civilians caught in the middle of that terrible war. In Only the Light Moves Captain Doherty only reveals the highs and lows of his year at war in Vietnam but expands beyond his time in the conflict. He explores the emotional struggle he and his comrades faced after they returned home, reconciliations with lost faith, and the incredible impact of war on families. We are also given an insight into Francis’ subsequent journey to becoming a commercial airline pilot. His story makes no effort to glorify the violence that took the lives of so many. There are no broad stroke proclamations about the war, only a very personal, sensitive account of a terrible conflict seen through the eyes of a then young pilot in the air, illuminating the reality and the cost of when one's country decides to go to war.
Kill Anything That Moves
Title | Kill Anything That Moves PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Turse |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013-01-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0805086919 |
Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
And Yet It Moves
Title | And Yet It Moves PDF eBook |
Author | Mark P. Silverman |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1993-06-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521446310 |
Originally published in 1993, this book is a largely nonmathematical account of some of the strange behaviour exhibited by moving particles, fluids and waves.
Philosophical Magazine
Title | Philosophical Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1049 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Physics |
ISBN |
The Language of Light
Title | The Language of Light PDF eBook |
Author | Terrence Duffy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN |
Radiant Energy and the Ophthalmic Lens
Title | Radiant Energy and the Ophthalmic Lens PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Booth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Crystalline lens |
ISBN |
Only The Light Moves
Title | Only The Light Moves PDF eBook |
Author | Francis A Doherty |
Publisher | Air World |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2023-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1399057030 |
Only the Light Moves tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old US Army pilot who volunteered to fly covert S.O.G., or Studies and Observations Group, reconnaissance missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a region that came to represent not only the United States’ war with Vietnam, but also the “secret war” with Laos and Cambodia. But this is not simply a war story; it is a love story about flying. Captain Francis A. Doherty spent every day for ten months above the jungle battlefield in a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog. The first all-metal fixed-wing aircraft ordered for and by the United States Army following the Army Air Forces' separation from it in 1947, the single-engine Bird Dog was a liaison and observation aircraft. And for this role, it was completely unarmed. It was from the cockpit of a Bird Dog that Captain Doherty observed this illusive war, perhaps searching out enemy troop movements or calling down waiting F-4 Phantoms to strike a new target. It was a war in which he followed his father’s footsteps in his dream to become a pilot, and where he learned a compassion that extended both to his comrades and the civilians caught in the middle of that terrible war. In Only the Light Moves Captain Doherty only reveals the highs and lows of his year at war in Vietnam but expands beyond his time in the conflict. He explores the emotional struggle he and his comrades faced after they returned home, reconciliations with lost faith, and the incredible impact of war on families. We are also given an insight into Francis’ subsequent journey to becoming a commercial airline pilot. His story makes no effort to glorify the violence that took the lives of so many. There are no broad stroke proclamations about the war, only a very personal, sensitive account of a terrible conflict seen through the eyes of a then young pilot in the air, illuminating the reality and the cost of when one's country decides to go to war.