
"Bloody Sixteen"
The past 12 months or so have been fruitful for people I know publishing books (see here and here). My friend and former colleague Peter Fey makes it a hat trick with his first book, Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War, which came out early last summer. The book chronicles Oriskany’s three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16) in the late 1960s. The three cruises were during Operation Rolling Thunder, the ultimately unsuc