Historical Center Historian Writes Book On Vietnam Air War

Historical Center Historian Writes Book On Vietnam Air War

(EXCERPT) Story Number: NNS040506-07 Release Date: 5/7/2004 1:14:00
AM, by Audrey Leble', Naval Historical Center Public Affairs

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A Naval Historical Center (NHC) historian's new
book on the Vietnam War, released in May, gives an "in the cockpit
view" of the conflict which ended 29 years ago.

“Afterburner: Naval Aviators and the Vietnam War,” by Naval Historical
Center historian Dr. John D. Sherwood, takes a new look at one of the
most expensive and controversial aspects of America’s long involvement
in Vietnam, the naval air war.

The book's focus is on the critical end game, especially the most
intense year of the air war - 1972. During that year, North Vietnam
launched the first, large-scale conventional attack on South Vietnam
of the war, and the United States fought back with some the most
innovative air campaigns of the war, including President Richard
Nixon’s Linebacker bombings of North Vietnam and th...

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