Going Downtown
The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961?75
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Product details:
- Publisher Osprey Publishing
- Date of Publication 12 October 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472848758
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 232x152x28 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32-page plate section in black and white 553
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Long description:
This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi, though there were Air Force pilots unofficially flying combat in Laos up to the end in 1975. The missions flown by USAF aircrews during those years in Southeast Asia differed widely, from attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail at night with modified T-28 trainers, to missions "Downtown," the name aircrew gave Hanoi, the central target of the war.
This aerial war was dominated by the major air operations against the north: Rolling Thunder from 1965 to 1968, and then Linebacker I and II in 1972, with the latter seeing the deployment of America's fearsome B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi. These operations were carried out in the face of a formidable Soviet-inspired air defence system bristling with anti-aircraft guns and SAM missile sites. Beyond this, the US Air Force was intimately involved in secret air wars against Laos and Cambodia - one cannot speak of a war only in Vietnam regarding US Air Force operations. The war the Air Force fought was a war in Southeast Asia.
Following on from the same author's The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club, which told the story of the US Navy's involvement in the Vietnam War, Downtown completes the picture. Featuring a wide range of personal accounts and previously untold stories, this fascinating history brings together the full story of the US Air Force's struggle in the skies over Southeast Asia.
Table of Contents:
List of Maps and Illustrations
Preface
Foreword
1. "Zorro-16 - Nail-43. You are on Fire. What Are Your Intentions?"
2. Good Intentions and Ignorance
3. Planning for the Wrong War
4. Early Days - 1962-65
5. Going up North - 1965-66
6.Feather Duster
7. Bridges, Sams, and MiGs - the Widening War
8. Blackman and Robin
9. The MiGs Fight Back
10. Bloody May and June
11. The Hot Summer of 1967
12. Rolling Thunder's Zenith
13. The End of Rolling Thunder
14. Interregnum - 1968-72
15. The Easter Offensive
16. Operation Linebacker
17. The Christmas Bombing
18. The Final Wars in Southeast Asia
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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