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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Fey, Peter, (Naval Commander) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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."