Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG Free Audiobook Download by Tom Yarborough

This audiobook tells the story of a Forward Air Controller in Viet Nam during the Vietnam War. The narrator, Tom Yarborough describes his experiences during missions flying with the SOG unit. He went on to say that he was almost never shot down and that it's possible for someone to fly their entire career without ever being wounded or killed if they choose their missions carefully.

Da Nang Diary is a true account by Tom Yarborough of his days as a Forward Air Controller during the Vietnam War. As an F-4 Phantom wingman, he would fly in close air support missions looking down through his gunsight with binoculars and recording the events below. As an observer, he saw a lot of the war that most Americans never saw.

Tom Yarborough, a United States Air Force (USAF) forward air controller (FAC), was selected to fly as a member of the Special Operations Group's (SOG) Raven squadron. This was a unique opportunity for an Air Force FAC. To do his part in this highly classified Vietnam War mission, Yarborough, who had considerable experience flying with the USAF and Navy, used his gun sight view of the combat zone, which he describes in his book titled "Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG".

The audiobook Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG is written by Tom Yarborough who served as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) in the US Special Operations Group, the US Army's elite Special Forces unit. He was shot down into the jungles of Vietnam in 1967, escaping to Laos and then back to the United States where he became a full-time writer.

My first experience with flying was in a RC plane I built. I had to master it before attempting any more serious flying. The skills I learned and gained came in handy when I was first assigned to fly an OV-10 Bronco gunship back in 1979. When I finally got my wings, my first position was as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) on reconnaissance missions over Laos. What I learned from the FAC aircrews we flew together provided me with life-saving insights for myself as a SOG (Studies and Observation Group) pilot, which put me at the forefront of the Vietnam War.

The audiobook Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG is a memoir of Tom Yarborough's experiences as an Air Force pilot and Forward Air Controller during the Vietnam War. Written by author Tom Yarborough, the audiobook recounts his first steps into the world of flying after being selected for training at Ft. Rucker, Alabama for the U.S. Army. With a training that lasted around ten months and a final exam to complete, he was eventually assigned to fly helicopters in Vietnam as part of a combat ready helicopter unit known as the SOG or Special Operations Group.