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Air Base Defense In The Republic Of Vietnam 1961-1973 [Illustrated Edition]

Author : Lt.-Colonel Roger P. Fox
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782895916

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Air Base Defense In The Republic Of Vietnam 1961-1973 [Illustrated Edition] by Lt.-Colonel Roger P. Fox Pdf

Includes 78 photos and 16 maps / charts This book explores the unique problem of defending air bases during the Vietnam War. It centers on the primary efforts of the United States Air Force and allied air units to defend 10 key air bases within the Republic of Vietnam. Bien Hoa, on 1 November 1964, was the first base to be attacked and until the cease-fire in January 1973, these bases suffered a total of 475 attacks. Although there were initial deficiencies in staff support for base defense in such key areas as intelligence, motor vehicles, weapons procurement and maintenance, communications, and civil engineering, significant improvements had been made by the end of the Air Force’s part in the war. The author, Lt. Col. Roger P. Fox, USAF (Ret.), wrote this volume while assigned to the Office of Air Force History. He brings judgments to his research based on his personal experience as a base security officer during the conflict. Thus, early on the morning of 4 December 1966, he rallied Air Force and South Vietnamese security forces to repel an enemy attempt to penetrate Tan Son Nhut Air Base, the center of Air Force operations in South Vietnam. For his gallantry in action on this occasion, he was awarded the Silver Star. This personal experience formed a foundation upon which he developed a keen insight into exploring the entire spectrum of air base defense, and upon which he has built a strong case for testing future plans and operations.

Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam 1961 - 1973

Author : Office of Office of Air Force History,U. S. Air U.S. Air Force
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 150772392X

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Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam 1961 - 1973 by Office of Office of Air Force History,U. S. Air U.S. Air Force Pdf

This book explores the unique problem of defending air bases during the Vietnam War. It centers on the primary efforts of the United States Air Force and allied air units to defend 10 key air bases within the Republic of Vietnam. Bien Hoa, on 1 November 1964, was the first base to be attacked and until, the cease-lire in January 1973, these bases suffered a total of 475 attacks. ' Although there were initial deficiencies in staff support for base defense in such key areas as intelligence, motor vehicles, weapons procurement and maintenance, communications, and civil engineering, significant improvements had been made by the end of the Air Force's part in the war. The author, Lt. Col. Roger P. Fox, USAF (Ret.), wrote this volume while assigned to the Office of Air Force History. He brings judgments to his research based on his personal experience as a base security officer during the conflict. Thus, early on the morning of 4 December 1966, he rallied Air Force and South Vietnamese security forces to repel an enemy attempt to penetrate Tan Son Nhut Air Base, the center of Air Force operations in South Vietnam. For his gallantry in action on this occasion, he was awarded the Silver Star. This personal experience formed a foundation upon which he developed a keen insight into exploring the entire spectrum of air base defense, and upon which he has built a strong case for testing future plans and operations. Colonel Fox's volume is one of a continuing series of books dealing with the war in Southeast Asia which are being written in the Office of Air Force History.

To Hanoi And Back: The United States Air Force And North Vietnam 1966-1973 [Illustrated Edition]

Author : Dr Wayne Thompson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898801

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To Hanoi And Back: The United States Air Force And North Vietnam 1966-1973 [Illustrated Edition] by Dr Wayne Thompson Pdf

Includes 3 maps and 40 photographs 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.

Air Power in Three Wars: World War II, Korea, Vietnam [Illustrated Edition]

Author : General William W. Momyer USAF
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786250728

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Air Power in Three Wars: World War II, Korea, Vietnam [Illustrated Edition] by General William W. Momyer USAF Pdf

[Includes over 130 illustrations and maps] This insightful work documents the thoughts and perspectives of a general with 35 years of history with the U.S. Air Force – General William W. Momyer. The manuscript discusses his years as a senior commander of the Air Force – strategy, command and control counter air operations, interdiction, and close air support. His perspectives cover World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam

Author : United States United States Air Forces
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514881039

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Air Base Defense in the Republic of Vietnam by United States United States Air Forces Pdf

Between 0025 and 0035 locai time on 1 November 1964, Vietnamese Communist (VC) troops attacked Bien Hoa Air Base, 25 kilometers northeast of Saigon. Positioning six 81-mm mortars about 400 meters north of the base, the enemy gunners fired 60-80 rounds onto parked aircraft and troop billets. The VC then withdrew undetected and unmolested, leaving behind damage all out of proportion to the effort expended. The barrage killed 4 U.S. military personnel and wounded 30. Of 20 B-57 jet bombers hit, 5 were destroyed, 8 severely damaged, and 7 slightly damaged.1 Increasingly thereafter, U.S. air bases in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) became routine targets for enemy ground attacks. The Air Force was ill-prepared to meet such an enemy threat.

Gradual Failure: The Air War Over North Vietnam 1965-1966 [Illustrated Edition]

Author : Jacob Van Staaveren
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786253989

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Gradual Failure: The Air War Over North Vietnam 1965-1966 [Illustrated Edition] by Jacob Van Staaveren Pdf

Includes over 100 maps, plans and illustrations The United States Air Force reached its nadir during the opening two years of the Rolling Thunder air campaign in North Vietnam. Never had the Air Force operated with so many restraints and to so little effect. These pages are painful but necessary reading for all who care about the nation’s military power. Jacob Van Staaveren wrote this book in the 1970s near the end of his distinguished government service, which began during the occupation of Japan; the University of Washington Press published his book on that experience in 1995. He was an Air Force historian in Korea during the Korean War, and he began to write about the Vietnam War while it was still being fought. His volume on the air war in Laos was declassified and published in 1993. Now this volume on the air war in North Vietnam has also been declassified and is being published for the first time. Although he retired to McMinnville, Oregon, a number of years ago, we asked him to review the manuscript and make any changes that seemed warranted. For the most part, this is the book he wrote soon after the war. Readers of this volume will also want to read the sequel, Wayne Thompson’s To Hanoi and Back: The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973, which tells the more encouraging story of how the Air Force employed airpower to far greater effect using a combination of better doctrine, tactics, technology, and training.

The Vietnam War

Author : Bernard C. Nalty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : United States
ISBN : 0760716978

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In Country

Author : James Stuart Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1435111842

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In Country by James Stuart Olson Pdf

Covering the thirty years between 1945 and 1975, In Country: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War is a balanced, comprehensive "A to Z" encyclopedia on the conflict that includes definitive coverage of all aspects of the war--both on the home front and "in country."

Air Force Combat Medals, Streamers, and Campaigns

Author : A. Timothy Warnock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112041837862

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Air Force Combat Medals, Streamers, and Campaigns by A. Timothy Warnock Pdf

This volume documents the combat service of the USAF and its predecessor organizations, as recognized by the award of combat service medals to individuals and service or campaign streamers to air units. Separate sections feature descriptions and color photos of the medals and streamers; concise accounts of each campaign in the theater are illustrated with color maps.--[book jacket].

An Illustrated Guide to the Air War Over Vietnam

Author : Bernard C. Nalty,George M. Watson,Jacob Neufeld
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081409695

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An Illustrated Guide to the Air War Over Vietnam by Bernard C. Nalty,George M. Watson,Jacob Neufeld Pdf

More than 50 aircraft types described, more than 140 photos, over 120 accurately detailed line drawings and 15 color profiles.

Air Force History Publications

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSD:31822030252043

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Air Force History Publications by Anonim Pdf