High Road to Hanoi
Venice, FL: Motor Design Books, LLC, 2010. presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [8], 489, [5] pages. Acronyms. Illustrations. Falcon Code. Inscribed by author on fep. Minor edge soiling. The High Road to Hanoi portrays the lives, concerns and emotions of the B-52 crew members during the height of the cold war and throughout the Vietnam Conflict. The period of the narrative is from 1962 to 1973. The main character is a radar navigator (bombardier) on a combat-ready crew who, as a second lieutenant, finds himself flying over the North Pole with nuclear weapons during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the ensuing ten years, the young officer learns to cope with the sobering responsibilities of standing day-to-day nuclear alert interspersed with actual combat missions over Southeast Asia. The B-52 crews were subjected to unmitigated stress. The pressure was relentless. These men lived with nuclear weapons on a daily basis and were committed to wreak devastation across the globe. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) demanded perfection, anything less was unacceptable. Inscribed to Carl Gunderson, believed to be the same as who earned a commission in the US Army as a 2cd Lt in 1954 and later went to medical school. He went on to internship at Philadelphia General Hospital and then Residency/Fellowship in Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine. He then began my 34 Years of Active service in the Army Medical Corps. In 1970 he accepted the position of Chief of the Neurology Service at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio where he stayed for 10 years achieving the rank of Colonel before accepting the post of Chief of Service and Neurology Program Director at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. From 1980 to 1991 he was also the Consultant to the Army Surgeon General. In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Vice Chair of their Neurology Department. He served as Acting Chairman of Neurology, March 1983-1988, and retirement from the Army in 1996. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Vietnam War, B-52, Hanoi, Aerial Operations, Air War, Strategic Air Command, Nuclear Weapons, Tet Offensive, Lampson 719, Patrick Campbell, Arc Light, Bombing
ISBN: 978098468715
[Book #76749]
Price: $75.00