[PDF] Air War Over South Vietnam 1968 1975 eBook

Author : Bernard C. Nalty
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 9780160509148

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Deals with the role of the United States Air force in advising the South Vietnamese Air Force and waging war in South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos from 1968 through 1975.

Author : Bernard Nalty
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781478118640

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This volume covers the period from the Tet offensive and the opening of the road to Khe Sanh in 1968 through the final collapse of South Vietnam in 1975. It deals with the role of the Air Force in advising the South Vietnamese Air force and waging war in South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Lao. Until the Test offensive of 1968, the United States hoped to compel North Vietnam, through military operations and negotiation, to call off its war against South Vietnam thus ensuring the survival of an independent South Vietnam. However, the 1973 peace agreement accepted the presence of North Vietnamese forces on territory seized from South Vietnam, and the survival of the Saigon regime depended upon the forbearance of the communist leadership of the willingness of the United States to vigorously response to a new attack. This history includes the so-called Vietnamization of the war, the withdrawal of American force, American and South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia, the South Vietnamese attack in Laos toward Tchepone, the containment of the invading North Vietnamese forces in 1972, the provision of additional aid from the United States, the military impact of the peace settlement, and the successful communist offensive of 1975. Air Force History and Museums Program. United States Air Force.

Author : U. S. Military
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2017-09-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781549848377

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This is a major historical study from the U.S. Air Force (USAF), Air War over South Vietnam 1968 - 1975. It covers the period from the Tet offensive and the opening of the road to Khe Sanh in 1968 through the final collapse of South Vietnam in 1975. It deals with the role of the Air Force in advising the South Vietnamese Air Force and waging war in South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Until the Tet offensive of 1968, the United States hoped to compel North Vietnam, through military operations and negotiations, to call off its war against South Vietnam thus ensuring the survival of an independent South Vietnam. However, the 1973 peace agreement accepted the presence of North Vietnamese forces on territory seized from South Vietnam, and the survival of the Saigon regime depended on the forbearance of the communist leadership or the willingness of the United States to vigorously respond to a new attack. This history includes the so-called Vietnamization of the war, the withdrawal of American forces, American and South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia, the South Vietnamese attack in Laos toward Tchepone, the containment of the invading North Vietnamese forces in 1972, the provision of additional aid from the United States, the military impact of the peace settlement, and the successful communist offensive of 1975. These events took place against the background of deepening American disenchantment with the war, initially voiced by a clamorous antiwar movement but eventually shared by a sizeable segment of the general populace. The unpopularity of the war influenced the decision of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to minimize American casualties by increasing Vietnamese participation in the fighting and substituting air power, wielded largely by military professionals or volunteers, for American ground troops, who were mostly draftees. This, in short, is a story of frustration, disillusionment, changing goals, and eventual disengagement that can teach an important lesson to those who would impulsively commit American might without ensuring that the nation's vital interests are involved and that the populace, which supplies the troops and treasure needed for the effort, understands and supports the intervention. The author, Bernard C. Nalty, devoted some thirty years to the Air Force history program. Chapter 1 - The Tet Offensive Begins * Chapter 2 - The Enemy Repulsed * Chapter 3 - Facing Some Hard Decisions * Chapter 4 - The Air War from Tet to Mini-Tet * Chapter 5 - Above Highlands, Plain, and Delta * Chapter 6 - Testing the Single Manager Concept * Chapter 7 - Unified Management takes a Final Form * Chapter 8 - Secret Bombing and Troop Withdrawals * Chapter 9 - The Nature of the Air War, 1969 * Chapter 10 - Improving the South Vietnamese Air Force * Chapter 11 - Storming the Cambodian Bases * Chapter 12 - From Incursion to Interdiction * Chapter 13 - The Continued Growth of South Vietnam's Air Force * Chapter 14 - Further Disengagement * Chapter 15 - The South Vietnamese Invasion of Laos: Operation Lam Son 719 * Chapter 16 - Action in South Vietnam and Cambodia 1971 * Chapter 17 - Further Vietnamization and Accelerated Withdrawal * Chapter 18 - Discipline, Drug Abuse, and Racial Unrest * Chapter 19 - Invasion * Chapter 20 - Reinforcement, Continuing Withdrawal, and Further Vietnamization * Chapter 21 - Military Region I: Quang Tri City Lost and Regained * Chapter 22 - Kontum City, An Loc, and the Delta * Chapter 23 - After the Truce * Chapter 24 - Recapturing Mayaguez: An Epilogue

Author : John Schlight
Publisher : Department of the Air Force
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :

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United States Air Force in Southeast Asia. Documents the Air Force's support of the ground war in South Vietnam from 1965 to early 1968. Includes sections on the air campaign conducted during the Communists' siege of the Marine camp of Khe Sanh. Also contains several appendices, a glossary, and bibliographical notes.

Author : Elizabeth Hartsook
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2013-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0985973099

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During the middle and late 1970s, the United States Air Force Historical Research Center produced a series of 17 monographs that detailed the history of the Vietnam War. These remarkable documents contain a wealth of historical data that explain the background and reasoning behind many controversial decisions. Air War Vietnam is a compilation of these monographs that casts new light on why the Vietnam war was fought the way it was and why a war that could and should have been won was instead lost.

Author : Dr Donald J. Mrozek
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786250136

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Ultimately, this study is about a smaller Vietnam War than that which is commonly recalled. It focuses on expectations concerning the impact of air power on the ground war and on some of its actual effects, but it avoids major treatment of some of the most dramatic air actions of the war, such as the bombing of Hanoi. To many who fought the war and believe it ought to have been conducted on a still larger scale or with fewer restraints, this study may seem almost perverse, emphasizing as it does the utility of air power in conducting the conflict as a ground war and without total exploitation of our most awe-inspiring technology. Although the chapters in this study are intended to form a coherent and unified argument, each also offers discrete messages. The chapters are not meant to be definitive. They do not exhaust available documentary material, and they often rely heavily on published accounts. Nor do they provide a complete chronological picture of the uses of air power, even with respect to the ground war. Nor is coverage of areas in which air power was employed—South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam—evenly distributed nor necessarily proportionate to the effort expended in each place during the war. Lastly, some may find one or another form of air power either slightly or insufficiently treated. Such criticisms are beside the point, for the objectives of this study are to explore a comparatively neglected theme—the impact of air power on the ground—and to encourage further utilization of lessons drawn from the Vietnam experience.

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0160931223

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This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved essential to the conduct of Rolling Thunder. Exploiting the inherent flexibility and mobility of naval forces, the Seventh Fleet operated with impunity for three years off the coast of North Vietnam. The success with which the Navy executed the later Operation Linebacker campaign against North Vietnam in 1972 revealed how much the service had learned from and exploited the Rolling Thunder experience of 1965–1968. The book includes several photographs with backgrounds of key aircraft used as part of Operation Rolliing Thunder during the Vietnam War. Other products relating to the Vietnam War can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/vietnam-war Other products relating to U.S. Naval History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/armed-forces-military-branches-history/united-states-navy-usn-history Other products published by the U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/902

Author : John Morrocco
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :

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Photographs, maps, and eyewitness accounts of the War in Vietnam.