Only The Light Moves
flying covert reconnaissance missions in the vietnam war
$54.66
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2025
Summary
Only the Light Moves: A Bird Dog Pilot’s Vietnam War Story
Only the Light Moves tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old US Army pilot who volunteered to fly covert S.O.G., or Studies and Observations Group, reconnaissance missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a region that came to represent not only the United States’ war with Vietnam, but also the “secret war” with Laos and Cambodia.
But this is not simply a war story; it is a love story about flying. Captain Francis A. Do…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399057028 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399057022 |
| Author: | Francis A. Doherty |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Air World |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Francis A. Doherty
Francis Doherty, a former U.S. Army captain, piloted a small, unarmed, airplane over sections of the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the war in Vietnam. Captain Doherty spent ten months flying in support of a covert unit of the Army’s Fifth Special Forces, which waged a clandestine war against the North Vietnamese Army, interdicting their supply line through Laos and Cambodia. Only the Light Moves is his first book. After leaving the military Captain Doherty spent thirty-two years as a commercial airline pilot. His essays have appeared in The Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Afterwords, the Veterans Writing Workshop Journal, 0-Dark-Thirty, the publication of the Veteran’s Writing Project, and several essays for The Bark, a monthly publication by the International Bird Dog Association. Additionally, the essay published in the Journal of Creative Nonfiction has been nominated for the Pushcart prize.
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