B-52 Strato Fortress at War
by J. Ethell, J. Christy
Listed under B-52 Stratofortress
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Level Hell : A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One
Hugh L., Jr. Mills, Robert Anderson
The first-hand account of a special breed of Vietnam aviator, by a
highly decorated pilot whose exploits in armed helicopters have become
legendary. His chopper wasn't designed to fight, but 21-year-old Hugh Mills
had other ideas. His troop of scouts made up their own rules and made aerial
warfare history.
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Chickenhawk
by Robert C. Mason
An extraordinary book by a veteran
of 1000 helicopter missions in Vietnam. Read
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Choppers:
The Heroic Birth of Helicopter Warfare
J.D. Coleman, Ace Collins
Paperback
Captain
Hook: A Pilot's Tragedy and Triumph in the Vietnam War
Wynn F. Foster, James B. Stockdale
Hardcover / Published 1992
Clashes
: Air Combat over North Vietnam 1965-1972
Marshall L. III Michel
A retired Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran makes full use
of recently declassified U.S. documents in this first comprehensive study
of fighter combat over North Vietnam. His balanced, exhaustive coverage
describes and analyzes both Air Force and Navy engagements with North Vietnamese
MiGs but also includes discussions of the SAM threat and U.S. countermeasures,
laser- guided bombs, and U.S. attempts to counter the MiG threat with a
variety of technological equipment. Accessible yet professional, the book
is filled with valuable lessons learned that are as valid today as they
were in the 1960s and 1970s. Some 15 photos and 45 drawings and maps, including
diagrams of both American and North Vietnamese formations and tactics,
are included.
Beginning with the first air-to-air engagements of Operation Rolling
Thunder in 1965, Marshall Michel describes the initial American successes
against the MiGs and the stunning turn of events in late 1967 when the
North Vietnamese began shooting down more U.S. aircraft than they lost.
He explains how in 1968, at the end of Rolling Thunder, the U.S. Air Force
ignored problems with their tactics, formations, and missiles, while the
U.S. Navy undertook a complete reassessment of its air-to-air operations
and formed its famous Topgun course.
The second part of the book, covering Operation Linebacker in 1972,
examines the results of these two approaches and how the Navy scored heavily
against the MiGs while the Air Force continued to suffer losses to MiG-21s.
Michel offers extraordinary insights into events that lead to this situation
and the Air Force´s efforts to reverse the trend.
This combination of actual dogfight descriptions with authoritative
analysis of the tactics, pilot skills, high-level decisionmaking, and short
comings--over 57 percent of U.S. air-to-air missiles malfunctioned and
less than 13 percent scored a kill--will prove indispensable to everyone
with an interest in air combat, the war in Vietnam, and Navy and Air Force
aviation in general.
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Hot! : A Marine Combat Pilot's Vietnam Diary
by Bob Stoffey
Paperback - 328 pages Reprint edition
St Martins Mass Market Paper; ISBN: 0312929412
Firebirds
: Helicopter Combat in Vietnam
Chuck Carlock
Paperback
Flying
from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-bombardiers of Vietnam
by Robert O. Harder
U.S. Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the
shadow of pilots, their contributions misunderstood or simply unknown to
the public. This was especially the case with the B-52 non-pilot aircrews
in the Vietnam War. Yet, without them, it would have been impossible to
execute nuclear war strike plans or fly conventional bombing sorties. With
this book, one of their own reveals who these men were and what they did
down in the Black Hole of the B-52 bomber. It is the only work to detail
the B-52 air war in Vietnam from the perspective of a navigator-bombardier.
The book's opening thrusts the reader into the thick of the war's climactic
1972 Hanoi Christmas bombing, an operation so poorly planned that it nearly
became a disaster of epic proportions. The author then offers a history
of the development of bombing techniques and the evolution of bomber aircraft,
focusing on the Vietnam-era B-52. Final chapters return readers to the
eleven-day Christmas War over Hanoi and Haiphong for an insider's view
of that defining battle, described by the author as the last massed, heavy
bomber raid the world will ever see. The author brings the book to a close
with a discussion of the B-52 and its capabilities in the twenty-first
century.
Hardcover from Naval Institute Press
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F-8
Crusader Units of the Vietnam War
(Osprey Combat Aircraft, 7)
Paperback - 96 pages
Motorbooks International; ISBN: 1855327244
RF-8
Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam
(Combat Aircraft , No 12)
Throughout the Cuban crisis, the White House relied heavily on photographic
intelligence gained by the US Navy and Marine Corps RF-8 overflights. The
recce Crusader's next taste of action came during the long years of the
Vietnam war, when the Vought jet assumed the mantle of primary photographic
platform through the nine years of conflict. This volume chronicles the
combat history of the jet. Amazon.com
Paperback - 96 pages (April )
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1855327821
Mig-21
Units of the Vietnam War (Combat Aircraft, 29)
by Istvan Toperczer, Mark Styling (Illustrator)
Paperback - 96 pages (December )
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1841762636
100
Missions North: A Fighter Pilot's Story of the Vietnam War
by Ken Bell, Ken, Brig, Ge
Paperback from Brasseys, Inc.
Rescue
Under Fire : The Story of Dustoff in Vietnam (Schiffer Military/Aviation
History)
by John L. Cook
(Hardcover)
This is the story of the men who risked everything to fly their evacuation
helicopters into the teeth of the most intense fighting the war produced
to evacuate the wounded.
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Hanoi and Back: The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966 1973
by Wayne Thompson, Richard P. Hallion
Book Description: By the summer of 1966, the U.S. Air Force's
reputation had hit rock bottom in Vietnam. After nearly eighteen months
of the limited bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, North
Vietnam's airfields, principal port, and capital city remained largely
unscathed. In 1972 the two Linebacker campaigns joined with other air operations
to make a dramatic, although temporary, difference. Wayne Thompson draws
upon twenty years of research in classified records to present a full history
of the Air Force role in the war against North Vietnam. He provides an
unprecedented view of the motivations and actions of the people involved—from
aircrews to generals to politicians—in every phase of the
air campaigns.
Hardcover from Smithsonian Institution Press
US
Navy F-4 Phantom 2 Mig Killers (2) 1965-1970
(Combat Aircraft, 26)
by Brad Elward, Peter Davies
Paperback - 96 pages (November )
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 184176163X
When
Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot Over North Vietnam
by Ed Rasimus
Hardcover from Smithsonian Institution Press
Winged
Sabers : The Air Cavalry in Vietnam 1965-1973
by Lawrence H. Johnson III
Paperback - 192 pages (March )
Stackpole Books; ISBN: 0811729885
Primer of the Helicopter War
by Charles Holley, Mike Sloniker
Photos and first person accounts enhance this chronological history
of the helicopter units, aircraft, and crews that were the backbone of
the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war. The story like it's never been
told, written by those who were there. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 209 pages 1 edition
Nissi Publishing; ISBN: 0944372112
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