Trying to make sense of Vietnam air war

Trying to make sense of Vietnam air war

` By Brian Richard Boylan, Special to The Denver Post

Between 1965 and 1968, 330 F-105s were lost in Southeast Asia, the
majority of them over North Vietnam. Many of the young pilots were
killed, shot down, wounded or captured. Ed Rasimus, who today teaches
political science in Colorado, was such a pilot who achieved the
status of flying 100 missions over Vietnam, and he is a harsh critic
of the U.S. Air Force and its inflexible pigheadedness in strategy and
tactics.

Written in the first person almost like a diary, Rasimus' account is
also a spirited defense of the fighter pilots (as opposed to pilots
who flew fighters) who risked their lives day in and day out to
achieve the surgically precise bombing missions that Washington
demanded. (On the way to his 100-plus...

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