Blind Bat: C-130 Night Forward Air Controller Ho Chi Minh Trail

By Frederick F. Nyc III

Blind Bat: C-130 Night Forward Air Controller Ho Chi Minh Trail This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571683011
• ISBN13: 9781571683014
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Eakin Press
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Finally a book I can relate to.

I loved this book. For many years I have looked through every book about Vietnam I could find just to be disappointed that there was no documentation about my "Blind Bat" work. This could have been a story about me. My assignment to Naha AFB, Okinawa and later transfer to the 'Blind Bat' operation in Ubon, and eventual reassignment to Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. This is the book I would have written.

Blind Bat

Excellent read and very entertaining. I remember the "Blind Bat" missions well. I highly recommend reading this book.

Candlestick Thanks

Fred did a great job describing our life that year. I can attest to the B-52 foul ups with TFA etc and know of the nav who inadvertently bailed out.I was eager to learn of the "Bat" training methods since ours were very informal.We did have a tactics book, but we were lucky to have very senior aircrew. Bottom line 4 missions and you go!Thanks again for the memories!Candlestick (Head Beagle)

The Blind Bat Cockpit

This book takes you to the cockpit of a C-130A flying Blind Bat flare missions. I thought I knew everything there was to know about Blind Bat, but this book proved me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. If I had to make any complaint I wish it was much longer.