Have not read this one, but this one is worth reading as well. "MIG MASTER:
The story of the F-8 Crusader" by Barrett Tillman. Naval Institute Press 2ed
1990.
It tells the good, bad, and odd about the F-8 from start to finish.
Interesting to note our "friends" the French Navy kept flying Crusaders till
they retired in 1999.


Mike Potter wrote:

Has anyone looked at Osprey Publishing's book _F-8 Crusader Units of the
Vietnam War_? Is it worth buying?

The marketing description from
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/titl...ser=COM&per=36
reads:

F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War

US Price: $19.95
UK Price: £12.99

About this book
Known to its pilots as the 'last of the gunfighters' due to its quartet
of Colt-Browning Mk 12 20 mm cannon, the F-8 Crusader was numerically
the most populous fighter in the US Navy at the start of America's
involvement in the Vietnam conflict in 1964 ? some 482 F-8C/D/Es
equipped 17 frontline units. It enjoyed great success against North
Vietnamese Mig-17s and Mig-21s during the Rolling Thunder campaign of
1965-68, officially downing 18 jets, which represented 53 per cent of
all Mig claims lodged by Navy squadrons during this period.

Contents
# First Engagement
# Setting Things Up
# Making a War
# Action in the Tonkin Gulf
# War Begins in Ernest
# MiG Killers
# Assessing the Enemy
# Beyond the MiGs
# 'Leatherneck' Crusaders, 1965-68
# Final Word