Thunder Over Vietnam

The popular conception of the Vietnam War focuses on the ground warthe soldiers and grunts who humped along jungle trails and fought the Vietcong face to facebut an important part of the war was waged in the skies over Southeast Asia, and indeed many of the wars 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 LeMays bomb them into the Stone Age doctrine, Lyndon Johnsons Rolling Thunder, and Richard Nixons Linebacker. This photo book chronicles the U.S. Air Forces operations in Vietnam, covering the aircraft, munitions, battle damage, and uniforms of Vietnam in the air.