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Combat Pay
Written by Curt Messex
Narrated by Kevin Foley
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About this audiobook
A True Story.
Few civilians realize the immense role the brave pilots in C-130 aircraft played in the Vietnam War. Now, Major Curt Messex tells the hair raising tales he experienced piloting a C-130.
Imagine flying a boxcar with four engines, loaded with high explosive fuel, at night, low, over a jungle with numerous Viet Cong shooting at you with 23mm, 37mm, and 57mm guns.
You'll "see" tracers zooming by so thick and so bright they light-up your cockpit with an eerie red glow. And in spite of it, you must drop supplies on a postage stamp to needy troops below.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5well read but the story is absolutely rubbish. very bad fiction.