Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Airpower And The Airlift Evacuation Of Kham DucISBN13:9781508701880ISBN10:1508701881Author:U. S. Air Force (Author), Office of Air Force History (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - This Slender Volume Has Value For Both The General Reader And The Aviation Specialist For The Latter There Are Lessons Regarding Command And Control And Combined-Unit Operations That Need To Be Learned To Achieve Battlefield Success For The Former There Is A Straightforward Narrative About American Aviators Of All Four Services Struggling In The Most Difficult Of Conditions To Try To Rescue More Than 1,500 American And Vietnamese Military And Civilians Not All The Americans Moving Through The Events Recounted In This Monograph Acted Heroically, But Most Did, And It Was Their Heroism That Gave The Evacuation The Success It Had Airpower And The Airlift Evacuation Of Kham Duc Is Fully Documented So That Readers Wishing To Look Deeper Into This Incident May Do So Those Who Study The Battle Will See That It Was Something Of A Microcosm Of The Entire Vietnam War In The Relationship Of Airpower To Tactical Ground Efforts Kham Duc Sat At The Bottom Of A Small Green Mountain Bowl, And During Most Of 12 May 1968 The Sky Was Full Of Helicopters, Forward Air Controller Aircraft, Transports, And Fighters, All Striving To Succeed And To Avoid Running Into Each Other In What Were Most Tryingcircumstances In The End They Carried The Day, Though By The Narrowest Of Margins And With Heavy Losses Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2015-03-03Weight:0.41 lbsDimensions:0.2'' H x 10'' L x 7.01'' WNumber of Pages:98Language:English
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Book Title: Airpower and the Airlift Evacuation of Kham Duc
Number of Pages: 98 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.2 in
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Military / Vietnam War
Genre: History
Item Weight: 8.6 Oz
Author: U. S. Air U.S. Air Force, Office of Office of Air Force History
Item Length: 10 in
Book Series: Usaf Southeast Asia Monograph Series: Monograph 7 Ser.
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
