Flying with the Spooks: Memoir of a Navy Linguist in the Vietnam War

As a linguist with the U.S. Navy Fleet Support Detachment in Da Nang, Herb Shippey was assigned to air reconnaissance during the Vietnam War. Flying with fellow "spooks" over the Gulf of Tonkin and Laos, his duty was to protect American aircraft and ships threatened by MiG 21 fighter jet activity. Shippey's introspective memoir recounts dangerous missions aboard non-combat aircraft (EC-121 Warning Star, P-3 Orion, A-3 Sky Warrior), rocket attacks and typhoons, and the details of his service, some of them classified for forty years.

Author: Herbert Shippey
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 01/31/2022
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781476686721
ISBN10: 1476686726
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | Vietnam War
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Herbert Shippey is a retired college English instructor who still teaches part-time. He lives in Tifton, Georgia.