{"product_id":"rotor-wash-a-huey-door-gunners-vietnam-9798259007963","title":"Rotor Wash: A Huey Door Gunner's Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jr. Ferrier William\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJune 1966. Hollis Caudill, nineteen years old, stands in the open door of a Huey and learns what the valley costs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a door gunner with the 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion, flying resupply and extraction missions into the Vinh Thanh Valley during Operation Crazy Horse - one of the bloodiest helicopter operations of the Vietnam War. He has an M60, a crew chief who speaks in facts rather than comfort, and a 1964 Ford Galaxie waiting under a tarp at home in West Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time the operation ends, he will have carried the dead from a burning ridge, watched a ship go down in a paddy, and made a choice in eight seconds that he will spend the rest of his life accounting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRotor Wash\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of what a man learns he can do - and what he brings home from the learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eChickenhawk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatterhorn\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e - a Vietnam War novel of helicopter combat, crew brotherhood, and the long silence of coming home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel contains: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Vinh Thanh Valley campaign of May-June 1966, told from the door of a UH-1D Huey - the lifts, the extractions, the aircraft that didn't make it back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe crew of Miss Margaret: a crew chief who never wastes a word, a door gunner learning what his hands are capable of, and the men they carry in and the men they carry out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA chapter from inside the mind of a PAVN anti-aircraft commander on the ridge above the valley - the other side of the same war\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFather Patrick Maddox, a Catholic chaplain whose single sentence will follow Hollis from a revetment at Camp Radcliff to a porch in West Virginia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA coming-home story that refuses to pretend a year in the door leaves anyone the same\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBased on the real Operation Crazy Horse and the real units of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). The Author's Note explains what is historical and what is invented.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boys Who Didn't Come Home\u003c\/b\u003e - an ongoing series following the men of the 1st Cavalry Division and the families who waited. Each book follows a different soldier. You can start anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook One: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Ia Drang\u003c\/i\u003e - Ray Halvorsen, nineteen years old, at Landing Zone X-Ray. November 1965. Available now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Two: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eRotor Wash\u003c\/i\u003e - Hollis Caudill, door gunner, Vinh Thanh Valley. You are reading it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Three: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeacon\u003c\/i\u003e - forthcoming 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883353653399,"sku":"9798259007963","price":1282.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798259007963.webp?v=1781101361","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rotor-wash-a-huey-door-gunners-vietnam-9798259007963","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}