The Phnom Penh Airlift: Confessions of a Pig Pilot in the Early 1970's [Paperback]

Charles W. Heckman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1990 | ISBN-10: 0899504914 | ISBN-13: 978-0899504919

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.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"interesting and factual account…photos are excellent" --Academic Library Book Review. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Charles W. Heckman spent two years of combat service in Vietnam as an U.S. Air Force pilot and subsequently supported the anticommunist forces in Southeast Asia as a civilian pilot. He is now a biologist living in Hamburg, West Germany. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub (August 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899504914
• ISBN-13: 978-0899504919
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,875,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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