Jehova’s Windfall available for reading by our members

Joe Hoover

Joe Hoover, one of our members has written a book about his time as a Combat Cameraman and has offered our membership a free read. In order to do so you have to be logged in as a user.

“I grew up in many diverse places with two younger brothers to boss around and two older sisters who cared for us when our mother reported for duty as the preacher’s wife. Our father was an evangelist with a calling, a missionary with a zeal for travel. By the time I was seventeen and ready to join the US Air Force and get away from all the moving, I’d experienced the highways and byways of the United States, Mexico and Central America.

Guess what the Air Force had in mind for me after basic training? More traveling: first as a still photographer and then as a motion picture cameraman shooting news events and airlifts and training exercises and military reactions to emergencies, both real and make-believe.

I was a hotshot (but fully qualified, I thought) twenty-three year old “shooter” when things started heating up in Vietnam. That was 1963. I don’t know why – youth and testosterone I suppose – but I volunteered for duty as a combat cameraman and was soon working out of Tan Son Nhut Air Base on the outskirts of Saigon.

Thrilling times, those. The real thing! Flying combat missions and combat support missions almost every day, filming live events and ongoing propaganda, like the heroic Farm Gate operations, the doomed Strategic Hamlet program and the Ranch Hand jungle defoliation project. I filmed McNamara’s worried visit and covered events surrounding the not-surprising Buddhist protests and the student riots.

I completed my first four-month tour in November, 1963, the week after the murder of President Diem; one week before the assassination of President Kennedy.

Soon after my return, I reunited with my first true love; we soon married, and, by extending my enlistment for a year, got transferred to Detachment 3 of the 1352 Photo Group. Hickam AFB, Hawaii.

I have authored two novels, “PK the Preacher’s Kid,” and “Jehovah’s Windfall”, and developed with Anni Adkins: HowToInvestigate.com and InvestigativeProfessionals.com

Currently working on an image video “The Photographer, the Painter, the Romance.” Visit Joe’s website at: http://JoeHoover.com

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