Going downtown : the US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961-75
Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey2023
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This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi, though there were Air Force pilots unofficially flying combat in Laos up to the end in 1975. The missions flown by USAF aircrews during those years in Southeast Asia differed widely, from attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail at night with modified T-28 trainers, to missions 'Downtown,' the name aircrew gave Hanoi, the central target of the war. This aerial war was dominated by the major air operations against the north: Rolling Thunder from 1965 to 1968, and then Linebacker I and II in 1972.
Going downtown : the US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961-75 / Thomas McKelvey Cleaver.
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2023.Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2023.
352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
9781472848758 (pbk)
959.704348
English
United States. Air Force -- History -- Vietnam War, 1961-1975Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Aerial operations, AmericanVietnam War, 1961-1975 -- CampaignsVietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns -- LaosVietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns -- CambodiaUnited States -- History, Military -- 20th centuryHistoryCambodiaLaosVietnamUnited States of America, USAc 1960 to c 1969
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