Author: James R. McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Linebacker II
Author: James R. McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Operation Linebacker II 1972
Author: Marshall Michel IIIPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472827597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
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.
Linebacker II a view from the rock
Author: James R. MacCarthyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428993517
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Eleven Days of Christmas
Author: Marshall L. Michel (III)Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1893554279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
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.
Operation Linebacker I 1972
Author: Marshall Michel IIIPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472827546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
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.
When the Wolf Rises
Author: Colonel G. Alan DugardPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468525360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
When the wolf rises was a term used by Theodore Roosevelt to describe "Fear" as experienced in life situations, to include combat and other extreme happenings. This term is applied to the role of the B-52s and the effect on the crews, flying out of the island of Guam and from U-Tapao, Thailand during the eleven days starting on December 18th, 1972. This personal account is a graphic description on the results of those raids from a commander of a B-52 squadron during the raids which led to the end of the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
Linebacker
Author: Karl J. EschmannPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780804103749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The account of the 1972 twelve-day assault by the U.S. on targets around Hanoi and Haiphong is provided through the personal words of the pilots and crew who flew the missions
Bombing to Win
Author: Robert A. PapePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471508
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its economy, people, or leaders. Coercive air power can succeed, but not as cheaply as air enthusiasts would like to believe.Pape examines the air raids on Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as well as those of Israel versus Egypt, providing details of bombing and governmental decision making. His detailed narratives of the strategic effectiveness of bombing range from the classical cases of World War II to an extraordinary reconstruction of airpower use in the Gulf War, based on recently declassified documents. In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.
Linebacker II
Author: James R. McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780999331705
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Linebacker II: A View from the Rock was the Air Force's first published official history of the 11-day bombing campaign that capped off the Vietnam War."--Page v.
Air War Over South Vietnam, 1968-1975
Author: Bernard C. NaltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description