76681US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam war
Chapter one: In the beginning; Chapter two: To battle; Chapter three: CAS, McCutcheon and control; Chapter four: The toughest years; Chapter five: Golden hawk eyes.
76682US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War : 94 (combat aircraft)
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.
76683Us navy A- 1 skyraider units of the Vietnam war
The erstwhile enemy of the USAF and US Navy during the nine years of American involvement in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) quickly grew from an ill-organised rabble of poorly trained pilots flying antiquated communist aircraft into a highly effective fighting force that more than held its own over the skies of North Vietnam. Flying Soviet fighters like the MiG-17, and -19, the VPAF produced over a dozen aces, whilst the Americans managed just two pilots and three navigators in the same period.
76684US Navy A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam war
Chapter one: Into Vietnam; Chapter two: Rolling thunder and steel tiger; Chapter three: 'Fist of the fleet'; Chapter four: 152nd at war; Chapter five: 'Main battery', 'Mape's apes', 'Arabs' and owls'; Chapter six: Round two; Chapter seven: The 'Fist' returns; Chapter eight: Intrepid 'swordsmen'.
76685US Navy A-7 Corsair II units of the Vietnam war
Osprey's examination of A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Arriving on station with the USS Ranger (CVA-61) in early December 1967, the first Corsair II squadron became operational immediatedly and sustained its first combat loss three weeks later. This book tells how the A-7 soon proved its worth supporting ground operations in South Vietnam. As it continued to serve in the ground support role, the navy swiftly introduced the A-7E which soon ran into difficulties with supply lines - perhaps on account of what many perceived to have been a rushed introduction to service. Once these teething problems were resolved, the A-7E became the primary air-to-ground aircraft of the fleet.
76686US navy and marine corps A-4 skyhawk units of the Vietnam war 1963-1973 (combat aircraft)
Seeing considerable combat in the nearly 50 years since its service introduction, the Skyhawk was involved in the Vietnam War (1955-1975) from the very beginning. Navy and Marine Corps A-4s quickly established a presence in Southeast Asia, flying from aircraft carriers and land bases in South Vietnam in thousands of sorties against the entrenched communist forces from Hanoi to the communist supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. This book includes details of missions including the siege of Khe Sanh, Lam Son and the contentious invasion of Laos and Cambodia in 1971 and gives a fascinating account of the variety of missions pilots were asked to perform. These operations were not without risk, and large numbers of A-4s were shot down and their pilots killed or, like Edward Alvarez, imprisoned as POWs for up to eight years in appalling conditions.
76687US navy and marine corps air power yearbook 2024 : F-35B lightnings
Flight Journal magazine is a US publication and it is issued 6 times every year. The magazine has great articles on war planes which span the ages. Each issue features spellbinding ‘I was there’ combat stories which will be inspirational and heart warming. There is also stunning photography, intriguing and recently unknown aircraft data and so much more. The magazine claims that it provides an ‘aviation adventure in the past, present and future.
76688US Navy F-4 Corsair II units of the Vietnam war 1969-73
Presenting to the time in between; Blue trees, bandits and bombs; The fight to leave; Phantom II as a fighter; Fighting to the end; Appendices.
76689US navy F-4 phantom II MiG killers 1965-1970
For every American fighter pilot involved in the Vietnam War (1955-1975), 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.
76690US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972-73 : 1st ed.
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.