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    Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
    Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
    Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
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    Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War

    Written by Peter Fey

    Narrated by John McLain

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam, and accounted for a quarter of all the naval aircraft lost during Rolling Thunder-the highest loss rate of any carrier air wing during Vietnam.

    The Johnson administration's policy of gradually applied force meant that Oriskany arrived on station just as previous restrictions were lifted and bombing raids increased. As a result CVW-16 pilots paid a heavy price as they ventured into areas previously designated "off limits" by Washington DC. Named after one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, the Oriskany lived up to its name. After two years of suffering heavy losses, the ship caught fire-a devastating blow given the limited number of carriers deployed. With only three months allotted for repairs, Oriskany deployed a third and final time and ultimately lost more than half of its aircraft and more than a third of its pilots. The valor and battle accomplishments displayed by Oriskany's aviators are legendary, but the story of their service has been lost in the disastrous fray of the war itself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781977375193
    Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War

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      Written by a career naval aviator largely for naval aviators, this is the best single work on the carrier war in Vietnam that I've read. Part of the problem in writing about the operational in air warfare, in general, is that it tends to devolve into "one damn thing after another" unless there is tight control. Fey keeps his control by never forgetting that there are multiple levels (tactical, operational, strategic, and political) and keeps these levels in proper relation to each other.I also appreciate that there is no after-the-fact effort to try and claim that victory was thrown away. Fey is most influenced by H.R. McMaster's "Dereliction of Duty" and the failure to unleash air power in an appropriate fashion makes his blood boil as it wasted blood and treasure, assuming it was even worth intervening in Vietnam. Since Fey began his naval career in 1996 I'm reading between the lines that the strategic follies of the post-9/11 period also weigh on him.About the only thing that I can mark this work down for is that since this is a very pilot-centered narrative there is little input from the perspective of the enlisted man or the non-commissioned officer.