Firefly: A Skyraider's Story about America's Secret War Over Laos

by Richard Diller It is 1969 and Dick Diller is on his way to flying warplanes in the Vietnam conflict.  He is commissioned to fly A-1 Skyraiders in sometimes harrowing nighttime missions over Laos-surviving not only the danger of the missions he flew, but also the bureaucracy of the air force, from fitness testing to additional duties assigned, to attacking impossible-to-find targets in the dead of night-with minimal fuel supplies. At once entertaining and riveting, as well as thought-provoking, Firefly is the story of one man's journey in a world at war, and a day-to-day description of the fighting force that was flying A-1 Skyraiders in combat.  Firefly contains actual transcriptions of dialogue of pilots locating a target and making a strike in northern Laos.