100 missions north
100 Missions North is a harrowing personal account of the extraordinarily dangerous missions the author and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs over North Vietnam in 1966-67. At that time, American airmen were faced with unprecedented defenses and the highest pilot loss rate - over 25 percent -...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
Potomac Books, Inc.
1993
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| Summary: | 100 Missions North is a harrowing personal account of the extraordinarily dangerous missions the author and his comrades flew in F-105 Thunderchiefs over North Vietnam in 1966-67. At that time, American airmen were faced with unprecedented defenses and the highest pilot loss rate - over 25 percent - since the early days of the U.S. strategic bombing of Europe during World War II. |
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| Item Description: | "A fighter pilot's story of the Vietnam War" Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781574886399 (paperback) 1574886398 (paperback) |