Peter Mersky

RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Tullis, Tom

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world to the likely presence of medium-range ballistic missiles on the Caribbean island. The recce Crusader's next action came during the long years of the Vietnam War. This volume is the second of two in the Combat Aircraft series devoted to the Crusader, the first title (again by Peter Mersky) having covered the F-8 fighter variants, and their MiG-killing exploits, during the Vietnam War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782007173
• Artikelnr.: 38351127

Autorenporträt

Peter Mersky is a retired Navy Commander with 23 years service on active duty and in the reserves. He has flown in many of the aircraft he has written about, including the A-7, and was a writer then the editor of Approach, the Navy and Marine Corps aviation safety magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Cuban Crisis
Early Operations in South-East Asia
1965-68 - Missions and Losses Mount
Getting the Coverage
1972-75 - The Last Campaigns
Appendices