To Hanoi and Back: the United States Air Force and North Vietnam 1966-1973 - Air Force History and Museums Program - Books - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781477550168 - May 27, 2012
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To Hanoi and Back: the United States Air Force and North Vietnam 1966-1973

Air Force History and Museums Program

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To Hanoi and Back: the United States Air Force and North Vietnam 1966-1973

No experience etched itself more deeply into Air Force thinking than the air campaigns over North Vietnam. Two decades later in the deserts of Southwest Asia, American airmen were able to avoid the gradualism that cost so many lives and planes in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Readers should come away from this book with a sympathetic understanding of the men who bombed North Vietnam. Those airmen handled tough problems in ways that ultimately reshaped the Air Force into the effective instrument on display in the Gulf War. This book is a sequel to Jacob Van Staaveren?s Gradual Failure: The Air War over North Vietnam, 1965?1966, which we have also declassified and are publishing. Wayne Thompson tells how the Air Force used that failure to build a more capable service?a service which got a better opportunity to demonstrate the potential of air power in 1972. Dr. Thompson began to learn about his subject when he was an Army draftee assigned to an Air Force intelligence station in Taiwan during the Vietnam War. He took time out from writing To Hanoi and Back to serve in the Checkmate group that helped plan the Operation Desert Storm air campaign against Iraq. Later he visited Air Force pilots and commanders in Italy immediately after the Operation Deliberate Force air strikes in Bosnia. During Operation Allied Force over Serbia and its Kosovo province, he returned to Checkmate. Consequently, he is keenly aware of how much the Air Force has changed in some respects?how little in others. Although he pays ample attention to context, his book is about the Air Force. He has written a well-informed account that is both lively and thoughtful.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 27, 2012
ISBN13 9781477550168
Publishers CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 430
Dimensions 170 × 244 × 22 mm   ·   684 g
Language English  

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