Thunder Over Vietnam

The American Air War in Southeast Asia

Alejandro Villalva

The popular conception of the Vietnam War focuses on the ground war—the soldiers and grunts who humped along jungle trails and fought the Vietcong face to face—but an important part of the war was waged in the skies over Southeast Asia, and indeed many of the war’s most well-known figures were pilots, from John McCain and James Stockdale to the unknown men who unleashed napalm hell and who carried out Curtis LeMay’s “bomb them into the Stone Age” doctrine, Lyndon Johnson’s Rolling Thunder, and Richard Nixon’s Linebacker. This photo book chronicles the U.S. Air Force’s operations in Vietnam, covering the aircraft, munitions, battle damage, and uniforms of Vietnam in the air.

Globe Pequot / Stackpole Books

Pages: 208 • Trim: 8½ x 11

978-0-8117-1667-3 • Paperback • February 2018 • $25.95 • (£19.95)

978-0-8117-6746-0 • eBook • February 2018 • $24.99 • (£18.95)

Series: Stackpole Military Photo Series

Subjects: History / Military / Vietnam War

Thunder Over Vietnam

The American Air War in Southeast Asia

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Summary

The popular conception of the Vietnam War focuses on the ground war—the soldiers and grunts who humped along jungle trails and fought the Vietcong face to face—but an important part of the war was waged in the skies over Southeast Asia, and indeed many of the war’s most well-known figures were pilots, from John McCain and James Stockdale to the unknown men who unleashed napalm hell and who carried out Curtis LeMay’s “bomb them into the Stone Age” doctrine, Lyndon Johnson’s Rolling Thunder, and Richard Nixon’s Linebacker. This photo book chronicles the U.S. Air Force’s operations in Vietnam, covering the aircraft, munitions, battle damage, and uniforms of Vietnam in the air.

Details

Globe Pequot / Stackpole Books

Pages: 208 • Trim: 8½ x 11

978-0-8117-1667-3 • Paperback • February 2018 • $25.95 • (£19.95)

978-0-8117-6746-0 • eBook • February 2018 • $24.99 • (£18.95)

Series: Stackpole Military Photo Series

Subjects: History / Military / Vietnam War

Author

Alejandro Villalva has served in the U.S. military, on active and reserve status, since 1991. Currently, he works as a forensic analyst and historian with the Department of Defense, specializing in the analysis of recovered artifacts as part of the process of identifying missing service members from World War I to the present. He lives near Dayton, Ohio.

Thunder Over Vietnam

The American Air War in Southeast Asia

Alejandro Villalva

Thunder Over Vietnam

The American Air War in Southeast Asia

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