Book Title:
One Day in a Long War
Author:
Jeffrey Ethell & Alfred Price
ISBN:
10: 0394576225
Category:
History
Format:
Paperback and Hardback
Summary:
"One day in a long war" focuses on the date, May 11th 1972 and the activity of American air power over North Vietnam , it's unusual to feel as if you're in the front seat of an F4 Phantom, facing the sheer terror of out flying SAM's. but Ethell & Price put in the cockpit, at the launch of "Linebacker" a highly classified surprise attack Hanoi & Haiphong.
That day the US Navy and Air Force sent in their elite "Top Gun" graduates to face ground-to-air missiles and over forty MIG 19s & MIG 21s fighters in the most intensive air combat ever seen over North Vietnam, with only the help of a few F105s "Wild Weasel" armed with anti-radar missiles and EB-66s with jamming pods
Flying below five thousand feet the "Triple A" was filling the skies with blinding flack bursts which due to the counter measures of the Douglas EB-55s, most of the flack batteries had their gun control radars jammed, but due the limited number of AGM-45 Shrike missiles, down town Hanoi would get hotter by the minute ,
This is the most complete account of aerial combat ever written, it covers the whole days action from midnight to midnight, with nothing is left to the imagination, the book has an extensive glossary and appendices, and is packed with "Eye Witness" accounts, diagrams and photographs, this book will set your "Afterburners" to full.