Villalva, Alejandro Thunder over Vietnam. The American Air War in Southeast Asia

The popular conception of the Vietnam War focuses on the ground war - the soldiers and grunts who humped along jungle trails and fought the Vietcong face to face - but 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 LeMay's "bomb them into the Stone Age" doctrine, Lyndon Johnson's "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.

In fact, some of the war's most famous figures were pilots, from John McCain and James Stockdale to the countless unknown men who unleashed the war's napalm hells, implemented Curtis LeMay's doctrine of massive bombing, or carried out Lyndon B. Johnson's Operation Rolling Thunder and Richard Nixon's Linebacker 1 and Linebacker 2 air offensives. This illustrated book describes the operations of the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam, and shows the aircraft, weapons, battle damage and uniforms of the flying personnel of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force in the Vietnam War.