如果说需要是发明之母的话,AC-130战机肯定是她的后代。Ghostriders:Mors De Caelis是AC-130武装直升机在越南、老挝和柬埔寨作战的综合历史。故事从1968年第一架AC-130开始,到1975年越南战争结束。它讲述了幽灵部队的生死存亡故事,他们在胡志明小道上打猎卡车,为美国和盟军地面部队提供火力支援时,面临着极大的危险。
虽然AC-130被认为有10000辆卡车被毁,但这一惊人的成就带来了巨大的代价。52名幽灵号机组人员和6架AC-130在老挝和越南的作战行动中丧生。故事由一位经验丰富的战斗老兵和幽灵历史学家以第三人称全知视角写成,故事的各个方面都来自官方解密记录和个人采访。细节和背景的层次象征性地将听众作为观察者放在飞机上,与幽灵机组人员一起战斗。最重要的是,这是幽灵的故事——准确、详细、引人入胜、独特。
Ghostriders 1968-1975: “Mors De Caelis” Combat History of the AC-130 Spectre Gunship, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia [Audiobook]
If necessity is the mother of invention, the AC-130 gunship was definitely her offspring. Ghostriders: Mors De Caelis is a comprehensive history of AC-130 gunship combat operations in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The story begins with the first AC-130 in 1968 and ends in 1975 at the end of the war in Vietnam. It tells the life and death stories of Spectre crews, who faced extreme danger while hunting trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and providing fire support for US and allied ground forces.
Though the AC-130 was credited with 10,000 trucks destroyed, this phenomenal achievement came with a hefty price. Fifty-two Spectre crewmen and six AC-130s were lost during combat operations in Laos and Vietnam. Written in third-person omniscient point of view by an experienced combat veteran and Spectre historian, all aspects of the story are derived from official declassified records and personal interviews. The level of detail and context figuratively puts the listener in the aircraft as an observer, flying alongside a Spectre crew in combat. Above all, this is the story of Spectre – accurate, detailed, compelling, and unique.
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