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| Author | : Peter E. Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782006966 |
Download USAF F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–68 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The USAF introduced the F-4C Phantom II into the Vietnam war in April 1965 from Ubon RTAB, Thailand. The F-4C/D soon became the Air Force's principal fighter over the North, destroying 85 MiGs by the close of 1968. This book describes how the USAF turned a gunless naval interceptor into an opponent to the more nimble VPAF MiGs. It explains how the Air Force gradually followed US Navy initiatives in the use of the F-4's missile armament but employed very different tactics and aircrew training. The roles of key personalities such as Col. Robin Oldany are discussed, together with armament and markings, crews and engagements.
| Author | : Peter E. Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782007539 |
Download USAF F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–68 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The USAF introduced the F-4C Phantom II into the Vietnam war in April 1965 from Ubon RTAB, Thailand. The F-4C/D soon became the Air Force's principal fighter over the North, destroying 85 MiGs by the close of 1968. This book describes how the USAF turned a gunless naval interceptor into an opponent to the more nimble VPAF MiGs. It explains how the Air Force gradually followed US Navy initiatives in the use of the F-4's missile armament but employed very different tactics and aircrew training. The roles of key personalities such as Col. Robin Oldany are discussed, together with armament and markings, crews and engagements.
| Author | : Brad Elward |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782006591 |
Download US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972–73 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The second of two books on the Navy's Phantom II MiG killers of the Vietnam War, this book covers the numerous actions fought out over North Vietnam during the Linebacker I and II operations of 1972-73. No fewer than 17 MiGs were downed during this period, five of them by the Navy's sole aces of the conflict, Lts Randy Cunningham and Willie Driscoll of VF-96. Drawing on primary sources such as surviving Phantom II aircrew and official navy documentation, the author has assembled the most precise appraisal of fighter operations involving US Navy Phantom II units and those elusive MiGs ever seen in print.
| Author | : Peter E. Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782006974 |
Download USAF F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972–73 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The F-4 Phantom II was the USAF workhorse fighter-bomber for the Linebacker campaign, which eventually saw US forces withdraw from Vietnam 'with honour' in 1973. This book covers the F-4 attacks on numerous targets in North Vietnamese cities such as Hanoi and Haiphong, as well as its engagements with Vietnamese MiG-19s and MiG-21s hell-bent on defending the north from 'Yankee air pirates'. The USAF's only ace crew, which scored their five kills during 1972, is also covered in a book containing many detailed photographs, a large proportion of which haven't been published before.
| Author | : Peter E. Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782003185 |
Download US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in South-East Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Rather than the air-to-air missiles that were the main component in the original F-4 armament, these aircraft carried an ever-expanding range of weaponry. Some toted 24,500-lb bombs and others strafed with up to three 20 mm gun pods, while most flew daily sorties delivering napalm, Snakeye bombs and big Zuni rockets. Many US Marines holding small outpost positions in Laos and South Vietnam against heavy Viet Cong attack owed their lives to the Phantom II pilots who repeatedly drove off the enemy. The book will examine these missions in the context of US Marine Corps close-support doctrine, using the direct experience of a selection of the aircrew who flew and organised those missions.
| Author | : Brad Elward |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782007210 |
Download US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For every American fighter pilot involved in the Vietnam War, the ultimate goal was to 'kill a MiG'. In eight years of conflict 43 Vietnamese Peoples Air Force aircraft were claimed by US Navy and US Marine Corps Phantom II crews, and one single ace crew produced. Navy Phantom IIs scored the first kills of the Vietnam War, in April 1965, as well as scoring the last in January 1973. This volume charts the successes of the navy fighter crews as they encountered 'MiGs, Missiles and AAA' over the jungles of North Vietnam.
| Author | : Brad Elward |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2012-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782006583 |
Download US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For every American fighter pilot involved in the Vietnam War, the ultimate goal was to 'kill a MiG'. In eight years of conflict 43 Vietnamese Peoples Air Force aircraft were claimed by US Navy and US Marine Corps Phantom II crews, and one single ace crew produced. Navy Phantom IIs scored the first kills of the Vietnam War, in April 1965, as well as scoring the last in January 1973. This volume charts the successes of the navy fighter crews as they encountered 'MiGs, Missiles and AAA' over the jungles of North Vietnam.
| Author | : Peter E. Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2013-05-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472803930 |
Download F-4 Phantom II vs MiG-21 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book draws us into the dangerous world braved by American and North Vietnamese airmen in the skies over Vietnam. Influential leaders and tacticians are profiled to provide a comparative evaluation of their contrasting skills. This book also reveals the technical specifications of each jet with an analysis of the weaponry, avionics and survival devices of the F-4 Phantom II as flown by the USAF and the MiG-21. The fighters' strengths and weaknesses are also compared, including turn radius, performance at altitude, range and structural integrity. First-person extracts reflect on the dangers of these aerial duels, as USAF pilots and their counterparts struggled to overcome each plane's shortcomings.
| Author | : Peter E. Davies |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2014-10-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782008063 |
Download F-105 Thunderchief MiG Killers of the Vietnam War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Despite its 'F-for-fighter' designation, the F-105 was designed and purchased to give the USAF an aircraft capable of the delivery of nuclear weapons at very high speed, long range and below-the-radar altitudes. However, when the Vietnam War began it also emerged as USAF's best available tactical bomber for a 'limited conventional' war as well. Extensively targeted by MiG-17s and MiG-21s the F-105 pilots developed innovative tactics that allowed them to compete in air-to-air duels with their smaller, more manoeuvrable enemies. Illustrated throughout with extensive photographs detailing weapon loads, internal features and action shots of actual engagements, this volume examines the conduct of the Rolling Thunder strike missions and the tactics used for attack and defence by the attack, escort fighter and radar monitoring elements within strike formations.
| Author | : István Toperczer |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2017-09-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472823540 |
Download MiG-21 Aces of the Vietnam War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Having learned their trade on the subsonic MiG-17, pilots of the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966. Soon thrown into combat over North Vietnam, the guided-missile equipped MiG-21 proved a deadly opponent for the US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps crews striking at targets deep in communist territory. Although the communist pilots initially struggled to come to terms with the fighter's air-search radar and weapons systems, the ceaseless cycle of combat operations quickly honed their skills. Indeed, by the time the last US aircraft (a B-52) was claimed by the VPAF on 28 December 1972, no fewer than 13 pilots had become aces flying the MiG-21. Fully illustrated with wartime photographs and detailed colour artwork plates, and including enthralling combat reports, this book examines the many variants of the MiG-21 that fought in the conflict, the schemes they wore and the pilots that flew them.
