With the release of Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War, author Peter Fey has penned an engrossing contribution to the literature on America’s most painful conflict of the twentieth century. Nearly passing out from loss of blood, Foster succeeded in ejecting into the Gulf of Tonkin, where the crew of a waiting American destroyer rescued him.įor good reason, Foster’s herculean effort for survival became a legend among naval aviators. The arm was missing from the elbow down and half my right forearm was lying on the starboard console.” Struggling to maintain control of the Skyhawk with his left hand, Foster remarkably succeeded in escaping the gauntlet of anti-aircraft fire and making his way out of North Vietnamese airspace. “ I realized I had been hit,” recalled Foster, “and looked down at my right arm. The fear of every aviator had abruptly become his reality. As he descended on his bombing run, CDR Wynn Foster abruptly encountered a veritable storm of anti-aircraft fire, then heard an ominous crash directly in his cockpit.
On the morning of 23 July 1966, a pair of A-4 Skyhawks roared above the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, headed for a strike on North Vietnamese petroleum facilities near Vinh. Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War, by Peter Fey.
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