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Strategy and reality collide in Peter Feys gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskanys 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 Thunderthe highest loss rate of any carrier air wing during Vietnam.
The Johnson administrations 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 firea 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 Oriskanys aviators are legendary, but the story of their service has been lost in the disastrous fray of the war itself. Fey portrays the Oriskany and its heroes in an indelible memorial to the fallen of CVW-16 in hopes that the lessons learned from such strategic disasters are not forgotten in todays sphere of war-bent politics.

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The Vietnam War was the apex of naval aviation and Peter Fey tells you why in - photo 1

The Vietnam War was the apex of naval aviation, and Peter Fey tells you why in this magnificent, superbly researched history of Air Wing 16 aboard USS Oriskany. Betrayed by politicians and senior military leadership in a no win war, the men in the cockpits had only courage, valor, professionalism, superb leadershipand each other. This book brought back the whole bloody tragedy. I could again hear the engines whine, smell the jet exhaust, see the faces in the ready rooms, feel the deck jump as the catapults fired, and see the flak and surface-to-air missiles.

Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder

Peter Feys narrative of USS Oriskany and Carrier Air Wing 16 personalizes the Vietnam era with insight into the costs and effects. The political and cultural aspects are well handled, including the efforts of POW-MIA families to buck the Johnson administrations reluctance to address those concerns. Feys description of the atmosphere at the Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, is particularly relevant. Few authorsother than someone who has swum in that poolwould understand it so well.

Barrett Tillman, author of On Wave and Wing: The 100 Year Quest to Perfect the Aircraft Carrier

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

Peter Fey

Potomac Books

An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press

2018 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska

Cover designed by University of Nebraska Press; cover images courtesy of the National Naval Aviation Museum.

All rights reserved. Potomac Books is an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017041404

The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

To my father. A scout in the United States Cavalry, he also survived the Vietnam War. He talked very little about his experiences. When he did, it was often of the naval aviators who saved his troop. I grew up in awe of these men, because if my own father held them in such regard, that was good enough for me. Because of him, I chose to follow in the footsteps of giants.

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To this day it stuns me that their own countrymen missed the story of their service, lost in the bitter confusion of the war itself.... That boomer elites can canonize this sort of conduct of their fathers generation while ignoring their own is more than a simple oversightit is a conscious, continuing tragedy.

Senator Jim Webb, Heroes of the Vietnam Generation

My interest in this story began with my attendance at the annual Tailhook convention in September 2001. The infamous 1991 Tailhook convention happened the year I graduated from high school, and news stories of the scandal were still etched in my brain ten years later as I weighed the decision to go. It was with some trepidation that I went. Im glad I did.

Imagine my surprise as my roommate and I stepped away from the registration booth to be met (more like accosted) by a grandfatherly man with a prosthetic right arm. This man proceeded to question us, pressing us for details about our naval service and flying from ships at sea before telling us to buy his book. Being the stereotypical, egotistical young aviators, we laughed off his sales attempt and walked away to join another conversation. Fortunately, we came to our senses and doubled back to learn more. Maybe the old man knew more than he was letting on.

Little did we know, we had just met Wynn Foster, aka Captain Hook. After pressing him for details, we stood spellbound as he regaled us with stories about flying from the USS Oriskany ( CVA -34) during the Vietnam War. Needless to say, we both bought copies of his book, Captain Hook: A Pilots Tragedy and Triumph in the Vietnam War, and left in awe. I consider myself lucky to have met him that night and even more fortunate to have been able to correspond with him throughout the years before his death in 2013. I enjoyed meeting him at each Tailhook convention. Wynn piqued my already high interest in aviation history. The more I studied, the more impressed I became. The saga of the naval aviators flying from Oriskany during the early Vietnam years is the stuff from which legends are born.

Without doubt, readers familiar with the topic will point out that it has been covered in great detail. So why another book about the Oriskany? Zalin Grant wrote a New York Times best seller entitled Over the Beach. Why not provide us with a history of the USS Kitty Hawk ( CVA -63), which served gallantly during the same period? My simple and honest answer is this. I wrote this book for the men of the Oriskany and her embarked Carrier Air Wing 16 ( CVW -16) because they asked me to.

Shortly after I met Wynn Foster, the September 11 attacks occurred. I soon found myself frequently deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq. In the midst of it all, I was given ten months during which I was able to write a short masters thesis on the topic. It was warmly received by these men, but I believed I could do much better. Even though I was an outsider, I belonged to that small fraternity of naval aviators, and they began to open up to me. They began to provide information and relate stories that no doubt they had repressed for many years. I attended reunions, collecting photos and more sea stories as word spread, and these aviators shared even more. Time passed, and I was deployed again and again. The gentle prodding to get their story told started to become none too gentle. These men are not getting any younger. As I write this, the senior leaders are in their eighties. Even the youngest men are now in their late sixties.

What became clear is that there was much more to their stories than had been told before. Oriskany and CVW -16 made three deployments to Vietnam between April 1965 and January 1968. Each deployment coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder; the Johnson administrations slow squeeze meant that Oriskany arrived on station just as previous restrictions were lifted and bombing raids increased. As a result, Oriskanys pilots bore the burden as they ventured into heavily defended areas previously declared off limits at a time when the summer monsoons provided the clearest skies over North Vietnam. As this was the best time frame for flight operations, the numbers of sorties flown increased dramatically. The air wing suffered dearly. During 1965 CVW -16 spent 141 days on the line, losing twenty-three aircraft. During 1966 the air wing lost twenty-five aircraft during an eighty-seven-day line period. This cruise was cut short due to a tragic fire on 26 October 1966 that killed forty-four men, including twenty-four aviators and the air wing commander. A shortage of aircraft carriers meant Oriskany had only seven months for repairs before deploying again in 1967. The air wings worst losses were sustained during the June 1967 to January 1968 deployment, when it lost over half of its assigned aircraft and over a third of its assigned pilots. Oriskanys losses accounted for almost 20 percent of the navys total losses during 1967, the highest loss rate of any carrier air wing during the Vietnam War. Unfortunately, these numbers dont account for the numerous aircraft that were damaged on each mission, adding to the strain on already overtasked sailors.

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