Triple Sticks: Tales of a Few Young Men in the 1960s

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Triple Sticks: Tales of a Few Young Men in the 1960s

This memoir reads like fiction. The author assures us it is not!

Three years before they came together, four young American men left their fraternities and college campuses for an adventure exceeding their imaginations. Wanting something more than the draft and unknown to each other, they chose Naval Aviation as the next step in their lives. Generally, they were better than their navy peers, all qualifying for high performance aircraft to be flown from steel decks over foreign seas. They would become the pointy end of the stick in aerial battles over North Vietnam, the most heavily defended patch of real estate in the history of aerial warfare. They were to do this in 1967, the year in which Naval Aviation experienced its greatest losses.

These four young men, now Lieutenants Junior
Grade, United States Navy, were ordered to Attack Squadron 34 to fly A4 Skyhawks into combat. They were assigned Junior Officer's stateroom 0111 aboard USS Intrepid, a venerable aircraft carrier with a distinguished history. This "bunkroom" better known to them as Triple Sticks was the repository for a log (in navy terms) or journal written by these four young aviators. Forty years later this log was the genesis of this memoir.

In the lethal environment over the northern reaches of North Vietnam or ashore in the Officer's clubs and bars of Asia, the writing brings to life wonderful humor, bizarre behavior, vivid aerial battles, uncommon loyalty, anger, frustration and respect. One survived or did not according to his skill and luck.

Country	USA
Author	Bernard Fipp
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Second Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Bernard Fipp
Manufacturer	Bernard Fipp
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2014-09-08
Publisher	Bernard Fipp
ReleaseDate	2014-09-08
Studio	Bernard Fipp

Triple Sticks: Tales of a Few Young Men in the 1960s

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