Air War-Vietnam

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1967. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original Paperback. For the first time in book form! The eye-witness, on-the-spot, in-the-air story of the planes, the men, an d the new kind of war they fight. Yankee Station - where A-4 Skyhawks catapult off the carriers and wing toward North Vietnam. Operation "Ranch Hand" - where planes make war against the land itself. T he Central Highlands - where giant helicopters transport the troops, and napalming jets at times must swoop down to save them. The Delta - where Americans in tiny spotter planes are forced to play G od to the lives of the Vietnamese below. Can Tho Civilian Hospital - where the inevitable mistakes turn up.To report it in all its awesome size and might, its heroism and its tragedy, novelists, mili t a ry writer and aviation expert Frank Harvey lived and flew with the men who are doing the job - over the South and over the North, from carriers, from giant air bases, from jungle strips. Here is t he w ay it is, as it has never been told before. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Spine is creased. A 2" light crease on rear bottom outside corner and a 1 /2" light crease on top outside rear corner. Some light browning of page borders. 185 pages..