100 Missions North

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100 Missions North

A Fighter Pilot's Story of the Vietnam War

Military history

Author: Ken Bell

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Language: English

Published by: Turner

Published on: 1st December 2000

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781618587091


Overview

A harrowing personal account of the extraordinary dangerous missions the author and his comrades flew over North Vietnam in 1966-1967. At that time, American airmen were faced with unprecedented defenses and the highest pilot loss rate (exceeding 25%) since the early days of the US strategic bombing of Europe during World War II.

Content

This thrilling book tells what it was like to muster the courage to climb into the cockpit day after day as you watched your comrades fall one by one and how the pilots fought back.

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