F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963โ73
โ Scribed by Peter E. Davies
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Known to its pilots as the 'last of the gunfighters' due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader was numerically the most populous fighter in the US Navy at the start of America's involvement in the Vietnam conflict in 1964 โ some 482 F-8C/D/Es equipped 17 frontline unit
Known to its pilots as the last of the gunfighters due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader was numerically the most populous fighter in the US Navy at the start of Americas involvement in the Vietnam conflict in 1964 โ some 482 F-8C/D/Es equipped 17 frontline units.
First engagement -- Setting things up -- Making a war -- Action in the Tonkin Gulf -- War begins in ernest -- MiG killers -- Assessing the enemy -- Beyond the MiGs -- 'Leatherneck' crusaders, 1965-68 -- Final word
This book covers the actions fought between two of the best known fighters of the Vietnam War, in action over the North during the early years of the conflict.<br /><br />Revered by Naval Aviators as the "last of the gunfighters" due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon (its great nava