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Classified Secret: Controlling Airstrikes in the Clandestine War in Laos (Paperback)

by Jan Churchill (Author)
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Jan adds another exciting story to the saga of FACs in Southeast Asia, Sergeants controlling airstrikes that would shock the bureaucracy of the Air Force! -- Brigadier General John F. Flanagan, author of Vietnam Above the Treetops

About the Author
Jan Churchill, from New Castle, Delaware, is a corporate pilot and writer. She holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate with multi-engine and instrument flight instructor ratings, and a C-47/DC-3 type rating and a seaplane rating. She has been an airline pilot and has accumulated over 13,000 flying hours in a variety of aircraft, from a J-3 Cub to the F-14, F-16, and C-5B.

An air show pilot for over 20 years, flying the C-47/R4D, O-1, and O-2, she has also owned and restored several warbirds. She is currently flying an O-2. Churchill is an FAA Safety Counselor.

She is an aircraft Commander for the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and is a member of the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association, Friends of the Ravens, Air Commando Association, Combat Controllers Association, The Wings Club, Confederate Air Force, Society of Aerospace Communicators, Pennsylvania Aero Club, Delaware Pilots Association, EAA, Ninety-Nines (International Organization of Women Pilots), and Lions International. She is Squadron Commander of EAA Warbirds Squadron 8 and immediate past Commander of an USCG Auxiliary Flotilla. She holds a B.A. from Sweet Briar College and an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. She is also a licensed American Kennel Club judge.

Churchill is the author of Hit My Smoke Forward Air Controllers in Southeast Asia (Sunflower University Press) , On Wings to War (Sunflower University Press), and The New Labrador Retriever (Macmillan Co.).

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 161 pages
  • Publisher: Sunflower University Press (January 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0897452410
  • ISBN-13: 978-0897452410
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,817,705 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An original, seminal, ground-breaking military history., April 6, 2000
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Most of the jet fighter/bomber pilots in northern Laos had no idea that the Forward Air Controllers calling in their airstrikes were non-rated or enlisted personnel until Jan Churchill interviewed them in 1998. The USAF had become involved in Vietnam as advisors following the Indochina War. As an outgrowth of the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. had developed a secret American military aid program for Laos, and in 1955 underwrote the entire Laotian defense budget. Laotian neutrality was routinely violated by both the communists and the U.S. -- with U.S. violations being kept secret from the American public. in Classified Secret: Controlling Airstrikes In The Clandestine War In Laos, Jan Churchill not only reveals and documents American involvement, but exposes for the first time to general public awareness that sergeants were controlling airstrikes in a total departure from the traditional Air Force chain of command and bureacratic allignment -- something even the combat pilots did not know until they were informed by Jan Churchill while interviewing them!
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