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02644aam a22003258i 4500 001 F7D426EAFCF011ECA1EDA78634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220706010037 008 220308s2022 enka r 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1472848764 020 $a 9781472848765 035 $a (OCoLC)1308488905 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d NLMVD $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey. $4 aut 245 10 $a Going downtown : $b the US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961-75 / $c Thomas McKelvey Cleaver. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Osprey Publishing, $c 2022. 300 $a 352 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-341) and index. 520 $a This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi, though there were Air Force pilots unofficially flying combat in Laos up to the end in 1975. The missions flown by USAF aircrews during those years in Southeast Asia differed widely, from attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail at night with modified T-28 trainers, to missions Downtown, the name aircrew gave Hanoi, the central target of the war. This aerial war was dominated by the major air operations against the north: Rolling Thunder from 1965 to 1968, and then Linebacker I and II in 1972, with the latter seeing the deployment of America's fearsome B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi. These operations were carried out in the face of a formidable Soviet-inspired air defence system bristling with anti-aircraft guns and SAM missile sites. Beyond this, the US Air Force was intimately involved in secret air wars against Laos and Cambodia - one cannot speak of a war only in Vietnam regarding US Air Force operations. 610 10 $a United States. $b Air Force $z Southeast Asia $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Campaigns $z Vietnam. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Campaigns $z Laos. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Campaigns $z Cambodia. 651 0 $a United States $x History, Military $y 20th century. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781472848789 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220706010646.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F7D426EAFCF011ECA1EDA78634ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search