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Vietnam War : Interview


             northern part of the country about twenty miles south of Da Nang. Our .
             aviation unit was on the beach which made it nicer but awful sandy.
             Chris: What did you think about Vietnam?.
             Lonnie: The country was definitely backwards in lifestyle; no electricity once .
             you were out of the small cities, only candles and lanterns. No modern farm .
             machinery, only water buffalos and the people toiling in the rice paddies. We .
             did not venture outside our compounds that much as we really weren't sure .
             who was friendly and who were not. Roads were almost nonexistent. The one.
             road that passed our compound was called Highway one; it ran along the .
             coast from the Southern tip of Vietnam to the DMZ. A book was written about .
             this road, years before our involvement called, "Street Without Joy." .
             Chris: How did you feel when you first arrived in Vietnam? .
             Lonnie: When we first set foot in Vietnam you had an awkward feeling of .
             "what have I done." Then you start seeing the plight of these outmanned and .
             almost backward people and realize why you"re here. You see the results of.
             the atrocities we only heard about and read until now. .
             Chris: Can you tell me what type of missions you had to complete and how many?.
             Lonnie: Really can't give the number of missions completed as we would pull .
             one a day or three or four a day. There was the ay we flew for seventeen .
             straight hours, only stopping to refuel and rearm our gunship. What was .
             measured was the number of combat flight hours you had; time exposed to .
             hostile fire. My total combat time was just under one thousand-one hundred .
             fifty hours. I flew helicopter gunships; there were two basic missions. Combat .
             assault support was protecting the troop carrying helicopters when they were.
             going into the landing zone; we would fly close beside them so as to shield .
             them from enemy fire and return fire with our rockets, mini-guns, and .
             machine guns. Then there was the landing zone prep mission where we would.


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