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  • F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War

    de Peter Mersky ...
    Series Libro 7 - Combat Aircraft
    An illustrated combat history of the 'last of the gunfighters', due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannons.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 – some 482 F-8C/D/Es equipped 17 frontline units. It enjoyed great success against North Vietnamese Mig-17s and Mig-21s during the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • F-8 Crusader vs MiG-17

    Vietnam 1965-72

    de Peter Mersky ...
    Series Libro 61 - Duel
    A detailed examination of the F-8 Crusader, the primary naval fighter when the conflict in Vietnam escalated in 1964, versus its opposite number in the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF), the MiG-17.Revered by Naval Aviators as the 'last of the gunfighters' due to its quartet of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader enjoyed great success against VPAF MiG-17s during the Rolling ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • US Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War 1963–1973

    de Peter Mersky ...
    Series Libro 69 - Combat Aircraft
    Featuring many first-hand accounts from the pilots who flew one of the greatest attack aircraft ever built, an insightful account of some of the most thrilling aerial combats that took place during Vietnam.The Skyhawk was involved in Vietnam from the very beginning, including the first offensive operations in 1963 into Laos, and the Pierce Arrow operations immediately following the Tonkin Gulf ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam

    de Peter Mersky ...
    Series Libro 12 - Combat Aircraft
    The second instalment of the history of this photo-bird aircraft type, featuring illustrations throughout.Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • A-7 Corsair II Units 1975-91

    de Peter Mersky, Tony Holmes, Mike Crutch ...
    Series Libro 135 - Combat Aircraft
    At the A-7 Corsair II's peak in the mid-1980s, some 30 US Navy squadrons flew various versions of the aircraft, including six Naval Air Reserve units, and these many of these units saw action across the Middle East.By the time the jet saw combat in Operation Desert Storm (1991), there remained only two fleet squadrons – many fleet squadrons having either disestablished or transitioned to the F/A18 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • US Navy A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War

    de Peter Mersky, Norman W Birzer ...
    Series Libro 48 - Combat Aircraft
    Arriving on station with the USS Ranger (CVA-61) in early December 1967, the first Corsair II squadron became operational immediately and sustained its first combat loss three weeks later.This book tells how the A-7 soon proved its worth supporting ground operations in South Vietnam. As it continued to serve in the ground support role, the navy swiftly introduced the A-7E which soon ran into ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    de Peter B. Mersky; Ted W. Lawson ...
    Ted W. Lawsons classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. One of the worst feelings about that time, Ted W. Lawson writes, was that there was no tangible enemy. It was like being slugged with a single punch in a dark room, and having no way of knowing where to slug back. He added, And, too, there was a ... Leer más

    $16.95 USD

  • Corsairs To Panthers: U.S. Marine Aviation In Korea [Illustrated Edition]

    de Major-General John P. Condon USMC, Commander Peter B. Mersky USN ...
    Series series Marines In The Korean War Commemorative Series
    Includes over 30 photos, maps and plans.The first major surprise of the post-World War II years came into play when in late June 1950, the United States found itself responding in crisis fashion to the North Korean invasion of the new republic of South Korea, just four years and nine months after VJ-Day. The nation became involved in Korea as a result of the Cairo and Yalta conferences in which ... Leer más

    $2.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 321

    de Peter B. Mersky ...
    During World War II, Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 321 enjoyed a brief, but successful, career as one of the many such units which contributed to the Allied victory in the Pacific. However, where many of its sister squadrons eventually disappeared during the postwar demobilization, VMF-321 was reborn at Naval Station Anacostia on the outskirts of the nation's capital as the first Marine Air ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • "Wildcats" Over Casablanca

    de Peter B. Mersky; M. T. Wordell; E.N. Seiler; Keith Ayling ...
    This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.S. Navy fighter squadron during the invasion of French North Africa in World War II. Lieutenants Wordell and Seiler, with the help of journalist Keith Ayling, vividly recount the exploits of their fellow aviators, who flew the sturdy Grumman F4F Wildcat from the deck of the USS Ranger (censors would ... Leer más

    $19.95 USD

  • Whitey

    The Story of Rear Admiral E. L. Feightner, A Navy Fighter Ace

    de Peter B Mersky ...
    Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy’s most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American, mid-western boyhood, Whitey Feightner was in the vanguard of the huge group of young men thrust into World War II. Upon receiving his commission and his gold wings, he was assigned to a fighter squadron in the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • A-6 Intruder Units of the Vietnam War

    de Rick Morgan ...
    Series Libro 93 - Combat Aircraft
    The complete story of A-6 combat operations during the Vietnam War, illustrated throughout.Designed in the years following the Korean War and then manufactured for over 30 years starting in 1960, the A-6 quickly became the most capable attack aircraft in the US Navy's stable. The first squadron, VA-75, made its initial deployment directly into combat in south-east Asia in 1965, and, over the next ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD