<p>The author brings forth the air war in Vietnam in all its complexity--from the hellish battles over Hanoi, to the war in Washington over the political and military realities of the conflict</p>

Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington

History

Jack Broughton

Military

Pocket

<p>This is the story of a special breed of warrior, the fighter-bomber pilot; the story of valiant men who flew the F-105 Thunderchief Thud Fighter-Bomber over the hostile skies of North Vietnam.</p>

Thud Ridge

Asia

Baxter Press

"Going Downtown" was the pilot's term for air raids against Hanoi, and Col Jack Boughton, a veteran of the Thunderbirds, found himself leading young American pilots from bases in Thailand into North Vietnam. They flew F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers against targets more dangerous than any experienced even during World War II. This is Broughton's story of those missions. of encounters with Mig fighters, of split-second maneuvering to dodge Sam missiles, of struggling to avoid anti-aircraft fire, and of trying to cope with the worst flying weather in the world. It is a also a bitter and disturbing story of young fighter pilots sacrificed in a war controlled by politicians ten thousand miles away.... Broughton's involvement in the war came to an end with the Turkestan incident, in which two of his pilots, in the heat of battle, were accused of firing on a Soviet ship docked in Cam Pha harbor. The ritual court martial that followed, detailed here with savage irony, convinced Broughton that his men were being asked to do the impossible in a world not of military necessity but of political gamesmanship, and a true American hero ended his career on a sour note. Going Downtown is a thrilling account of air combat and a fierce indictment of our Vietnam-era political leadership. --- excerpts from book's back cover

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Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington

Thud Ridge

Going Dowwntown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington