US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 - 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 US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 write by Brad Elward. This book was released on 2012-11-20. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For every American fighter pilot involved in the Vietnam War, the ultimate goal was to 'kill a MiG'. In eight years of conflict 43 Vietnamese Peoples Air Force aircraft were claimed by US Navy and US Marine Corps Phantom II crews, and one single ace crew produced. Navy Phantom IIs scored the first kills of the Vietnam War, in April 1965, as well as scoring the last in January 1973. This volume charts the successes of the navy fighter crews as they encountered 'MiGs, Missiles and AAA' over the jungles of North Vietnam.
US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972–73
US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972–73 - 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 US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972–73 write by Brad Elward. This book was released on 2012-11-20. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972–73 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second of two books on the Navy's Phantom II MiG killers of the Vietnam War, this book covers the numerous actions fought out over North Vietnam during the Linebacker I and II operations of 1972-73. No fewer than 17 MiGs were downed during this period, five of them by the Navy's sole aces of the conflict, Lts Randy Cunningham and Willie Driscoll of VF-96. Drawing on primary sources such as surviving Phantom II aircrew and official navy documentation, the author has assembled the most precise appraisal of fighter operations involving US Navy Phantom II units and those elusive MiGs ever seen in print.
US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70
US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 - 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 US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 write by Brad Elward. This book was released on 2012-11-20. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–70 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For every American fighter pilot involved in the Vietnam War, the ultimate goal was to 'kill a MiG'. In eight years of conflict 43 Vietnamese Peoples Air Force aircraft were claimed by US Navy and US Marine Corps Phantom II crews, and one single ace crew produced. Navy Phantom IIs scored the first kills of the Vietnam War, in April 1965, as well as scoring the last in January 1973. This volume charts the successes of the navy fighter crews as they encountered 'MiGs, Missiles and AAA' over the jungles of North Vietnam.
USAF F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–68
USAF F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–68 - 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 USAF F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–68 write by Peter E. Davies. This book was released on 2012-11-20. USAF F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965–68 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The USAF introduced the F-4C Phantom II into the Vietnam war in April 1965 from Ubon RTAB, Thailand. The F-4C/D soon became the Air Force's principal fighter over the North, destroying 85 MiGs by the close of 1968. This book describes how the USAF turned a gunless naval interceptor into an opponent to the more nimble VPAF MiGs. It explains how the Air Force gradually followed US Navy initiatives in the use of the F-4's missile armament but employed very different tactics and aircrew training. The roles of key personalities such as Col. Robin Oldany are discussed, together with armament and markings, crews and engagements.
US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War
US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War - 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 US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War write by Peter E. Davies. This book was released on 2012-11-20. US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty-five US Marine Corps squadrons flew versions of the Phantom II and 11 of them used the aircraft in South-East Asia from May 1965 through to early 1973. Rather than the air-to-air missiles that were the main component in the original F-4 armament, these aircraft carried an ever-expanding range of weaponry. Some toted 24,500-lb bombs and others strafed with up to three 20 mm gun pods, while most flew daily sorties delivering napalm, Snakeye bombs and big Zuni rockets. Many US Marines holding small outpost positions in Laos and South Vietnam against heavy Viet Cong attack owed their lives to the Phantom II pilots who repeatedly drove off the enemy. The book will examine these missions in the context of US Marine Corps close-support doctrine, using the direct experience of a selection of the aircrew who flew and organised those missions.
