Text is clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Hard Cover. Dust jacket is clean and bright, 1" closed tear at top of spine, otherwise very light edge/shelf wear. Binding is solid, tight, square. Cover boards VG. 2000. Naval Institute. Photos are of actual book you will receive. Ships in box, quickly and with care.
SYNOPSIS:Foreword by Stephen Coonts. The tragic, the comic, the terrifying, the poignant are all part of the story of the Black Pony pilots who distinguished themselves in the Mekong Delta between 1969 and 1972. Flying their Broncos "down and dirty, low and slow," they destroyed more enemies and saved more allied lives with close-air support than all the other naval squadrons combined during the three years they saw action. Author Kit Lavell was part of this squadron of "black sheep" given a chance to make something of themselves. The U.S. Navy's only land-based attack squadron, Light Attack Squadron Four (VAL-4) flew support missions for the riverine forces, SEALs, and allied units in borrowed, propeller-driven OV-10s. For fixed-wing aircraft they were dangerous, unorthodox missions, a fact readers quickly come to appreciate.
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