Fox Two: America's First Ace in Vietnam [Paperback]

Randy Cunningham (Author), Jeff Ethel (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1983 | ISBN-10: 0912173017 | ISBN-13: 978-0912173016

I am a fighter pilot by heart, and I love turning and twisting through the skies in search of a good fight. But this is more than a story of aerial combat. It is a story of a ship, USS Constitution, and the men who sailed her, their feelings, thoughts and actions during the Vietnam conflict. Fox Two describes many of our air-to-air combats, recorded as they happened. We didn't win them all, but lessons learned and some of the restrictions that we had to live with - and in some cases die with - should be known by every American so that your sons will not pay the same price as did many of our men in a war we weren't allowed to win.... From 1965 through 1971 the US Navy scored 29 kills with Sidewinders. During the time period of this book, Navy pilots were credited with 23 Sidewinder kills and one Sparrow kill. All five of my victories were made with the Sidewinder, making Lieutenant (jg) Bill Driscoll and me the first US aces of the Vietnam War. Thus the Title, Fox Two. --- excerpts from book's Preface

Product Details

• Paperback: 161 pages
• Publisher: Champlin Fighter Museum Pr (December 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912173017
• ISBN-13: 978-0912173016
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,461,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fox Two, December 3, 2007

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Great account of air combat over VietNam by our first ACE of the war in southeast asia. Right up there with "Thud Ridge"