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Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War.(Book Review)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War. By John D. Sherwood. New York: New York University Press, 2004. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp x, 353. $32.95 ISBN: 0-81479842-x

John Sherwood has penned another outstanding, well-written, and valuable study of It his...

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...military aviation. joins well-received and excellent Officers in Flight Suits (1996) that told of USAF fighter pilots in the Korean War and Fast Movers (1999) that focused on jet pilots in Vietnam. Afterburner concentrates on twenty-one naval aviators (to include Marines) who flew and fought in the Vietnam War after the 1968 bombing halt into the operations...

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