Assault from the Sky

“Action-packed . . . he brings the reader artfully through the fog of war with clarity” ( 20th Century Aviation Magazine ). Vietnam has often been called our “first helicopter war,” and indeed, the US Marine Corps, as well as Army, had to feel its way forward during the initial combats. But by 1967, the combat was raging across South Vietnam, with confrontational battles against the NVA on a scale comparable to the great campaigns of WWII. In 1968, when the Communists launched their mammoth coun