Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot In The Big Red One

By Robert A. Anderson and Hugh Mills

Book Overview

The aeroscouts of the 1st Infrantry Division had three words emblazoned on their unit patch: Low Level Hell. This was the perfect definition of what these pilots experienced as the ranged the skies of Vietnam. Mills tells the combat experiences of these aviators. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891417192
• ISBN13: 9780891417194
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Thank You Colonel Mills

Thank you for this book. I couldn't put it down, but when I got toward the end I started to slow down; I didn't want it to end. I hope your considering another book. Perhaps about your time a cobra pilot. I was in vietnam in 67, and that experience helped me thoroughly enjoy this book. But that's not to say you have to be a veteran to appreciate this book. Everyone of the amazingly brave exploits of the scout pilots. I wish...

Low Level Hell

I have read Low Level Hell on a couple of occasions, mainly during times that I really miss those exciting, less complicated days. The book really does detail those days with Darkhorse as they really were. What seems funny today was not that funny at the time. This book highlights our first tour with Darkhorse as a scout pilots. Approximately 8 months after returning home from our first tour, we both volunteered to return...

Onion Flavored Jello???

I have never before been able to tolerate a media account of the Viet-Nam conflict. No other publication I have been subjected to has allowed that I might have an opinion of my own of the politics and values they wish to sway to thier line of thinking. I read until my knees were numb on several occasions and still couldn't put this book down. LTC. Mills has written a chilling account of the day to day operations and the brave...

Low Level Hell - A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One

Excellent book about some of the dedicated aviators that supported us infantrymen in the Big Red One in Vietnam. As a LRRP in Co.F/52nd Inf. (LRP), 1st Inf. Division in 1968, I always felt that we had tremendous helicopter support. Our LRP company originated as a part of 1st Sq./4th Cavalry, and they regarded us and watched over us from above like brothers. We often called upon the Cobra gunships of D Troop (Air), 1st...