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title: "They Called It Naked Fanny: Helicopter Rescue Missions During the Early Years of the Vietnam War Paperback – September 6, 2016"
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# They Called It Naked Fanny: Helicopter Rescue Missions During the Early Years of the Vietnam War Paperback – September 6, 2016

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## Customer Reviews

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    Military History
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2021*

I bought this book because I was stationed at the outpost known as Nakhon Phanom in the early sixties.  I knew some of the guys there and a few in the book.  I often sat down with a Flight Engineer (A1C Robinson) on the HH43-B helicopter.  We used to  talk for quite awhile in the Chow Hall between flights.  He was shot down and spent- I believe 7 years in prison in Hanoi and after release, he received a  commission and eventually retired as a Captain.  He gives speeches in various military gatherings, to include Branson Missouri during Veterans Homecoming -usually in Oct or Nov of every year.  But enough of that, the book is educational and entertaining as well as a book of military history.

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    Some good first-person accounts - bad history.
  

*by S***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2019*

There's a lot of useful first-person accounts here from the men who flew the early SAR (Search and Rescue) missions for the USAF in the Vietnam conflict. Having said that, it's not useful history.There are things this book does well. It records the thoughts and experiences of the men who were sent to do a job without the tools to do the job and who improvised to accomplish their mission. The book shows how unprepared the USAF was at the beginning of the conflict and how the men thrown into the job had to make it work. there are a lot of good stories in this book.However, it's not a structured account that usefully chronicles SAR missions as they progressed through the first years of the war. Sometimes, there are gaps in the timeline. Sometimes, accounts by different men conflict with each other. Considering these men are recording their experiences many years removed from the actual events that's understandable. But, it reduces it's historical usefulness.There's a lot of good here - especially in discovering how the USAF really underestimated how many losses they would have in aircraft and crews and how they were unprepared for efficient and effective SAR. If you want to read an excellent account of a successful SAR that carefully looks at all aspects of a mission, buy "The Rescue of Streetcar 304" by Kenny Wayne Fields about the rescue of a naval aviator lost in Laos.

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    Memories
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2019*

Two things:  first of all I was appalled by the number of mistakes in the book, as I was there and listed into book in errors of both rank and rescue date.  Secondly by the author's unwillingness of acknowledge any of the errors.  I did write the publisher.  As a date of rescue listed in the book, one of which I participated, it was July 16th, not the 28th, as I was back in Florida before the 28th.  Also, it did not list all of the PJs that were there and continually mislabeled [i.e.] rank of some that were there.

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