The air war for the U.S. in Cambodia ended in August 1973. However, one month later the Khmer Rouge rebels besieged the city of Phnom Penh, took the airport and surrounded the city. Forty Americans were trapped in the American Embassy. A team of Navy SEALs infiltrates a river convoy on the Mekong headed for the city. Ameri- can Air Force F-4 Phantoms and Navy A-7s, directed by Forward Air Controllers support the convoy and the evacuation of the Embassy. North Vietnam and Khmer Rouge forces try to intervene, and several aircraft are lost. This is the story of the air support and rescue of American airmen, and the problems encountered in Washington of leaked information.
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Colonel Dana Duthie's assignment as an Air Force Forward Air Controller is the basis for many of the experiences in Convoy Cover His Air Force career spanned 24 years, from pilot training in Georgia and instructor in Texas to the skies over Southeast Asia in the OV-10, and from the F-4 phantom in Germany to the F-16 Falcon in South Carolina, Korea and Germany. The theme of Convoy Cover spawned from his tour with the 23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron in Thailand and Cambodia. He also paid his dues with three headquarters assignments and professional schooling. Colonel Duthie retired in 1992. He lives in Broomfield and Steamboat Springs, Colorado with his wife, and two children and four grandchildren nearby. One grandson is currently assigned as a Yellow Shirt on the USS Carl Vinson, nuclear carrier in the Pacific.
