Vietnam Air Warfare

by Robert F. Dorr

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785815309
• ISBN13: 9780785815303
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Booksales
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

accurate account

As a former F-4 RIO in VF114 from 1968-71 I found this book to be accurate and very well documented.

Simply a great book!

This must be the best book in its category. Hundreds of breathtaking pictures (color and B & W), very interesting text, well documented, very clear structure, well thought page layouts. Don't hesitate!

Return to those thrilling days of yesteryear!

This semi-large format book covers all the aircraft used in the Vietnam conflict, with a chapter for 1949-1959 and then a chapter for each year 1960-1975. In each chapter there are many color and black and white photos, color engineering drawings of important aircraft, descriptions of strategies and tactics, many firsthand war stories and profiles of significant aviators. The focus is on U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy aircraft, and there're all here: choppers, counterinsurgency craft, recces, patrol and SAR platforms, bombers and fast movers. There is also relatively limited material on the South and North Vietnamese air forces, North Vietnam's air defense system and neighboring countries' aircraft. The pre-1965 years, often forgotten, are particularly interesting; did you know that when the French returned after WWII they used some abandoned Japanese military aircraft?Appendices summarize U.S. and South Vietnamese air force order of battle throughout the war, list all carrier deployments and associated carrier air wings from 1964-75, a chronology of all U.S. Mig kills with details for each shoot down (including two by enlisted B-52 .50 cal gunners!), a very useful alphabetical reference with brief technical details for all U.S. and foreign made aircraft used in the theater from 1945-1975, and an excellent index for finding all references and photos for particular aircraft types.Another reviewer asserts "there are a lot of errors in the text and captions in this book", but fails to provide a single specific example. There are hundreds of picture captions and hundreds of pages of text, and the material seems consistent with other sources so the bulk of the material must be accurate. Perhaps that reviewer's particular area of interest or expertise was slighted or had some errors.I enjoyed this book, pull it out to read often and recommend it highly. It is a "must" for Vietnam and Cold War history buffs, model aircraft builders and Vietnam vets.