Airpower and the Airlift Evacuation of Kham Duc

by Alan L. Gropman, U.S. Office of Air Force History, Raymond B. Furlong

This slender volume has value for both the general reader and the aviation specialist. For the latter there are lessons regarding command and control and combined-unit operations that need to be learned to achieve battlefield success. For the former there is a straightforward narrative about American aviators of all four services struggling in the most difficult of conditions to try to rescue more than 1,500 American and Vietnamese military and civilians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1410222594
• ISBN13: 9781410222596
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"