Bloody Sixteen : The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War /

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Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Viet...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fey, Peter, (Naval Commander) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Navy. > Attack Carrier Air Wing 19.
Oriskany (Aircraft carrier : CVA 34)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Campaigns.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Naval operations, American.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Aerial operations, American.
Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965-1968.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part 1. Setting the stage
  • 1. Rolling Thunder and the numbers game
  • 2. The environment
  • 3. The naval air war
  • part 2. 1965
  • 4. Gradual Beginnings
  • 5. The war heats up
  • 6. The bridge campaign
  • part 3. 1966
  • 7. The POL campaign
  • 8. The battle increases
  • 9. Fire!
  • part 4. 1967
  • 10. Long, hot summer
  • 11. The Stennis hearings and the climax of Rolling Thunder
  • 12. Black October
  • 13. In the end
  • part 5. In retrospect
  • 14. 1968, the summer of violence
  • 15. The POWs
  • 16. "Because our fathers lied."

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