Join Gerald Baron in the Readings Gallery for an in-depth talk about his book, It Was My Turn: One of Vietnam's Most Decorated Pilots and America's Secret War, where special guest and the main subject of the book Terry Crump will be joining him!
It Was My Turn: One of Vietnam's Most Decorated Pilots and America's Secret War is the story of Bellingham's own Terry Crump who was awarded an unprecedented seven Distinguished Flying Crosses during his one year tour in Vietnam. This book puts you in the cockpit of a Cobra gunship as Terry and his fellow Pink Panther pilots fought to protect the lives of the Green Berets and their teams sent into the forbidden territory of Laos and Cambodia, most often against overwhelming enemy forces. The highly classified secret war of SOG, the so-called Studies and Observation Group, was finally revealed in the 1990s and has generated great public interest. This is the little known story of the war in the skies above the embattled Special Forces.
