This Week’s Program

This week’s one hour radio broadcast includes an interview with Guy Clark, MD. Author Guy S. Clark, M.D., received the Bronze Star, three Air Medals, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, and the Vietnam Service Medal for his service during the Vietnam War. This memoir is based on almost daily entries in a personal journal he kept throughout his year of service in Vietnam, from June 1966-June 1967.

Vietnam Flight Surgeon Dr. Guy Clark and Author of "Sharkbait"

1966, Cam Ranh Bay AFB

Sharkbait Dr. Guy Clark Vietnam Flight SurgeonIn early 1966, Dr. Guy Clark received orders to go to Vietnam, and upon arrival that June was assigned to be a flight surgeon at Cam Ranh Bay Air Force Base, on the South China Sea.

Thus began a year-long assignment that would find Clark flying more than ninety bombing missions over Vietnam in the Phantom F4-C, plunging deep into the Viet Cong-infested jungle with a gaggle of Republic of Korea Marines in search of the remains of two lost Phantom pilots, and tending to the medical needs of the pilots he flew with.

 

Phantom F4-C Bombing Missions

“Sharkbait, A Flight Surgeon’s Odyssey in Vietnam” tells these stories and more.
Clark was a physician who dreamed of high adventure, and flying with the Phantom F4-C pilots was the ultimate high. Guy Clark’s experiences as flight surgeon and doctor to the pilots who flew bombing missions every day were very different from the ground troops and helicopter pilots.
This memoir is based on almost daily entries in a personal journal he kept throughout his year of service in Vietnam, from June 1966-June 1967.

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