Phantoms Over Vietnam: U.S. Navy F4 Phantoms 1965-1973

This 2001 OSPREY book is typical of their entire series, good value for not much money. The Phantom crews of the U.S. Navy and U.S.M.C. accounted for 43 Vietnamese aircraft shot down, plus the Navy Phantom IIs 'scored the first kills of the Vietnam War ... as well as scoring the last.". This book, typical to the entire OSPREY series of books, has a multitude of great photos (80 in color as well as many in black and white), including several abundant full color maps. This book gives a good, focused survey history of the Navy F-4 ops in Vietnam. A listing of the various chapters follows: PART ONE Incident At Hainan The Players Rolling Thunder Begins An Intense Year The End of the Beginning TopGun Proving the Point PART TWO Rising Tensions Frm Freedom Train to Lineback I Linebacker I Comes to an End Linebacker II Index Experts may turn up their noses at this book as being too pedestrian, however, for the average reader this book will turn out to be very useful in gaining knowledge of the Phantoms over Vietnam. Semper Fi.