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One Year: Or the rest of your life.

by Herman, Jr. L. Butch Peace

A Huey pilot’s year in Vietnam

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A Huey pilot’s year in Vietnam

L. Butch Peace’s account traces a path from South Texas to wartime service as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. The book places the experience in the cockpit of a UH-1 Huey and focuses on the daily realities surrounding combat flights: Army food, junior officers, fear, loss, and the hope of returning home. Its scope combines the larger context of the Vietnam War’s helicopter role with the personal incidents and reflections of one warrant officer aircraft commander. The title points to a bounded tour of duty, while the description emphasizes both the hazards of that year and the experiences that filled it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in personal accounts of the Vietnam War and military aviation
  • Those curious about helicopter crews and the lived experience of a warrant officer pilot
  • Readers seeking a military autobiography that includes both combat and everyday service details

Themes

Vietnam WarMilitary aviationWartime serviceLoss and survival

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Book overview

A superb Story! Not only does Butch Peace offer you a good, long look into the Vietnam War (the Helicopter War), he invites you to see and feel for yourself that war from the cockpit on the venerable UH-1 "Huey" helicopter as a "Robin Hood Warrant Officer Combat Assault Aircraft Commander. This well-written book takes you way beyond the boring bravado of a blood and guts barroom battle cry. Instead, Butch invites you to the events and adventures that lead a kid from South Texas to become a wartime helicopter pilot with a one-way ticket to Vietnam

and no promise of return. "One Year" is locked and loaded with happenstance, humor, somber musings, bumbling junior officers, fearsome fights, Army chow, inevitable loss, and always hoping to make it back home. This is an authentic tale. I should know, I was "Slinky", a Polecat Warrant Officer Aircraft Commander, a hundred miles east of and a Few Months after Butch flew home."

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