The Phnom Penh Airlift

The Phnom Penh Airlift
Author: Charles W. Heckman
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1476608547


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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.

The Phnom Penh Airlift
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Charles W. Heckman
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-22 - Publisher: McFarland

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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 w
Flying Tigers Over Cambodia
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Larry Partridge
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12-12 - Publisher: McFarland

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Tactical Airlift
Language: en
Pages: 930
Authors: Ray L. Bowers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Department of the Air Force

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Air Force History and Museums Program. Presents the United States Air Force’s use of one form of air power, tactical airlift aviation, in the changing limited
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Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Categories: Cambodia
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Trash Haulers
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Sam McGowan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-15 - Publisher: AuthorHouse

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