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Phnom Penh Airlift: Confessions of a Pig Pilot in the Early 1970s

Phnom Penh Airlift: Confessions of a Pig Pilot in the Early 1970s

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Superbly written, this is an account by a participant in the airlift that supplied the blockaded capital of the Khmer Republic and several provincial capitals with food and other necessities of life during the last year of the United States' direct involvement in the Indochina War. Civilian pilots from many nations stepped in to fill the gap left by the departing American armed forces; they had to contend not only with makeshift facilities and heavy fire from the invading Vietnamese but also with a monumentally inept and corrupt Cambodian bureaucracy, which hindered the effective operation of the airlift in countless way.

Book information

ISBN: 9780786467631
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Imprint: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 342g
Height: 156mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 18mm