Peter B. Mersky,Norman Polmar
American Soldiers survived in Vietnam's rice paddies thanks to the US Navy planes and helicopters that came swooping out of the clouds to their rescue. And during the ten years of fierce fighting in Vietnam, American naval aviation took the war to the enemy in the North and supported allied forces in the South - with pride, honr and courage.,From the famous F-8 Crusader to the workhorse F-4 Phantom, from the A-4 Skyhawk to the P-3 Orion, you'll discover the exhilarating, the exhausting, and the tragic dimensions of the war we did fight and the war we did not fight. And with more than 200 photographs, you'll see the Vietnam War from the cockpit, just as fliers who were there saw it, in this first full account of the naval air war in Vietnam.
Military History,Naval History
THE NAVAL AIR WAR IN VIETNAM