Linebacker II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linebacker II write by James R. McCarthy. This book was released on 1979. Linebacker II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Operation Linebacker II 1972
Operation Linebacker II 1972 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operation Linebacker II 1972 write by Marshall Michel III. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Operation Linebacker II 1972 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the failed April 1972 invasion of South Vietnam and the heavy US tactical bombing raids in the Hanoi area, the North Vietnamese agreed to return to the Paris peace talks, yet very quickly these negotiations stalled. In an attempt to end the war quickly and 'persuade' the North Vietnamese to return to the negotiating table, President Nixon ordered the Air Force to send the US' ultimate conventional weapon, the B-52 bomber, against their capital, Hanoi. Bristling with the latest Soviet air defence missiles, it was the most heavily defended target in Vietnam. Taking place in late December, this campaign was soon dubbed the 'Christmas Bombings'. Using specially commissioned artwork and maps, ex-USAF fighter colonel Marshall Michel describes Linebacker II, the climax of the air war over Vietnam, and history's only example of how America's best Cold War bombers performed against contemporary Soviet air defences.
Operation Linebacker I 1972
Operation Linebacker I 1972 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operation Linebacker I 1972 write by Marshall Michel III. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Operation Linebacker I 1972 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At Easter 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South, and there were almost no US ground troops left to stop it. But air power reinforcements could be rushed to the theater. Operation Linebacker's objective was to destroy the invading forces from the air and cut North Vietnam's supply routes – and luckily in 1972, American air power was beginning a revolution in both technology and tactics. Most crucial was the introduction of the first effective laser-guided bombs, but the campaign also involved the fearsome AC-130 gunship and saw the debut of helicopter-mounted TOW missiles. Thanks to the new Top Gun fighter school, US naval aviators now also had a real advantage over the MiGs. This is the fascinating story of arguably the world's first “modern” air campaign. It explains how this complex operation – involving tactical aircraft, strategic bombers, close air support and airlift – defeated the invasion. It also explains the shortcomings of the campaign, the contrasting approaches of the USAF and Navy, and the impact that Linebacker had on modern air warfare.
The Eleven Days of Christmas
The Eleven Days of Christmas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eleven Days of Christmas write by Marshall L. Michel (III). This book was released on 2002. The Eleven Days of Christmas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In December 1972, with an increasingly dovish Congress preparing to cut off all funding for the war in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon ordered the bombing of Hanoi by the Strategic Air Command's "big stick," its fleet of B-52 bombers. Never before had a B-52 been lost in combat, but the North Vietnamese SAM missile crews knocked them out of the sky in the first days of the engagement. Despite the losses, the surviving bombers kept coming, inflicting huge losses on the North Vietnamese. For eleven days the momentum swung back and forth, moving from what appeared to be a certain U.S. triumph, to a possible North Vietnamese victory, to the ultimate ambiguous denouement in which both sides won and lost.
Air War Over South Vietnam, 1968-1975
Air War Over South Vietnam, 1968-1975 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Air War Over South Vietnam, 1968-1975 write by Bernard C. Nalty. This book was released on 2000. Air War Over South Vietnam, 1968-1975 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
