{"title":"Wild Weasels Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Wild Weasel crew hunting surface-to-air missile sites over North Vietnam, against a commander who turns his radar on only long enough to breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fan-song-wild-weasels-book-1","title":"Fan Song (Wild Weasels Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA North Vietnamese missile battery is firing out of hills the intelligence map shows empty, and the radar that guides it stays on only long enough to breathe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Beau Spradlin of Abilene flies Gimlet One, an F-105F Wild Weasel named ARLENE, out of Korat in Thailand, hunting SAM sites ahead of the strikes on the Thai Nguyen steel works. In his back seat rides Captain Thad Ogletree, a former B-52 electronic warfare officer and bird-watcher who has never really been shot at, and who can hear the Fan Song radar come on in two short pulses and a long one. The bearings start pointing the wrong way, and the strike aircraft keep falling on the way home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe battery commander, Captain Tăng Minh Nhẫn, is the man the Americans call the Hiccup. He has three prepared positions, a decoy site of bamboo and painted canvas, and the patience to wait until the egress passes behind him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483773853762,"sku":"WEASEL-01-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/01_Fan_Song_ebk_cover_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435476"},{"product_id":"beeper-wild-weasels-book-2","title":"Beeper (Wild Weasels Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo Americans are down on a karst ridge northwest of Hanoi, one with a broken leg, and the guns have ringed the hillside by morning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Beau Spradlin and his electronic warfare officer, Captain Thad Ogletree, fly the F-105F Wild Weasel ARLENE out of Korat. When Major Jonas Hollister and Captain Rollie Ashcraft eject from THE BARD over the Red River valley, Spradlin's flight stays overhead past bingo fuel and becomes the rescue's SAM hunters. The A-1 Sandys from Udorn come down to clear the guns, but the Jolly Green will not fly into a live ring, and every time it comes up the valley a missile radar called the Hiccup breathes once and fires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Tăng Minh Nhẫn knows the rescue has to come to him. Militia are climbing the terraces. Spradlin and Ogletree have one airplane on a borrowed canopy, and the Hiccup is waiting for the Jolly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483774017602,"sku":"WEASEL-02-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/02_Beeper_ebk_cover_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435508"},{"product_id":"three-ring-wild-weasels-book-3","title":"Three Ring (Wild Weasels Book 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHalf the SAM sites the wing has claimed this summer turn out to be bamboo and canvas, and the real battery has moved to guard the bridges at Viet Tri.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Beau Spradlin leads the Wild Weasels out of Korat in the F-105F ARLENE on hunter-killer sweeps through the monsoon. When a crew goes into the hills chasing a radar, he goes low after the launchers himself and nearly loses his wingman, Vance Pegram, to the flak. His electronic warfare officer, Thad Ogletree, refuses to fly with him. Ogletree comes back on one condition: when he calls it off, Spradlin goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Tăng Minh Nhẫn, the battery commander the Americans call the Hiccup, has slipped his convoy into new positions by the bridges at the edge of the defenses around Hanoi. The wing is sending a strike to drop a span. 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A steady radar lock holds on a Weasel and nothing is launched until MiG-21s come in from behind. Ogletree builds a plan to use the lock against the MiGs, but the weather, the fires and the missiles keep taking crews and airplanes. His orders home arrive one mission short of a hundred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Tăng Minh Nhẫn, the SAM commander the Americans call the Hiccup, has studied this flight for a year. Ogletree can go home, or he can ask the flight surgeon to sign him back on for the MiG field strike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45483774083138,"sku":"WEASEL-04-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/04_Silent_Site_ebk_cover_GPT_20261007.jpg?v=1791435509"}],"url":"https:\/\/whitemountainpress.com\/collections\/wild-weasels-series.oembed","provider":"White Mountain Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}