Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972: A 1972 Vietnam War Destroyer Gunline Memoir of a Fire Control Technician (Last Gunship Naval Warfare Series) Kindle Edition

In 1972, during the final years of the Vietnam War, U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mullinnix DD-944 operated on the deadly naval gunline along the Vietnam coast. Last Gunship is the firsthand memoir of a young Fire Control Technician assigned to the ship’s Main Battery Plot; controlling the ship’s three 5”-54-gun mounts.War kills everything! In this military thriller, experience the ‘72 Easter Day Invasion from the perspective of someone who had the unenviable job of pulling the trigger. Killing on a daily basis as a dissolving sense of reality sets in. Known as the gunline, positioned a few hundred yards off the coast, Mullinnix had entered the fresh-air mental asylum of Indochina.Disoriented, the crew watches tanks battle on the beach and napalm transform vibrant green landscape into molten red and orange as fireballs devour both oxygen and vegetation. Disillusionment sets in. With it, the destruction, exhaustion, humor, and terror of war. The astonishing intimacy among shipmates is underscored by the fundamental struggle for survival.In this true, historically accurate, deeply personal story in the vein of Philip Caputo and Tim O’Brien, the author takes the reader on a psychosomatic roller coaster from indifference to reality. Read more