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Setup : what the Air Force did in Vietnam and why / by Earl H. Tilford, Jr.; 01/01/1991
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Journal of Third World Studies, 1993 Apr 01. 10(1), 439-441.
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Setup : what the Air Force did in Vietnam and why / by Earl H. Tilford, Jr.
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Crosswinds : the Air Force's setup in Vietnam
Tilford, Earl H.;Tilford, Earl H.
Who lost the war in Vietnam? Popular mythology has blamed politicians, the press, or J...
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Crosswinds : the Air Force's setup in Vietnam
1993; Vol. 00030
Who lost the war in Vietnam ? Popular mythology has blamed politicians, the press, or Jane Fonda and the antiwar movement. Crosswinds, a riveting and incisive analysis by a former Air Force officer who served as an intelligence specialist during the war, demonstrates convincingly that the U.S. Air Force was indeed'set up'for defeat, but not by an America that tied its hands. Rather, the Air Force was a victim of its own history, its institutional values, and an intellectually ossified leadership which could not devise a strategy appropriate to the war at hand. These factors within the Air Force itself created heavy flying.
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The Air Force Way of War : U.S. Tactics and Training After Vietnam
Brian D. Laslie;Brian D. Laslie
On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam ...
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The Air Force Way of War : U.S. Tactics and Training After Vietnam
2015
On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon proved so devastating that Strategic Air Command was ordered to halt the bombing. The U.S. Air Force's poor performance in this and other operations during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, when strategic bombers attacking targets were expected to take heavy losses. Warfare had changed by the 1960s, but the USAF had not adapted. Between 1972 and 1991, however, the Air Force dramatically changed its doctrines and began to overhaul the way it trained pilots through the introduction of a groundbreaking new training program called'Red Flag.'In The Air Force Way of War, Brian D. Laslie examines the revolution in pilot instruction that Red Flag brought about after Vietnam . The program's new instruction methods were dubbed'realistic'because they prepared pilots for real-life situations better than the simple cockpit simulations of the past, and students gained proficiency on primary and secondary missions instead of superficially training for numerous possible scenarios. In addition to discussing the program's methods, Laslie analyzes the way its graduates actually functioned in combat during the 1980s and'90s in places such as Grenada, Panama, Libya, and Iraq. Military historians have traditionally emphasized the primacy of technological developments during this period and have overlooked the vital importance of advances in training, but Laslie's unprecedented study of Red Flag addresses this oversight through its examination of the seminal program.
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Flight training--United States--History - War games--United States - Air warfare--History - Air pilots, Military--Training of--United States--History - Air power--United States--Case studies - War gamesContent provider:
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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin : A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind
Eileen A. Bjorkman;Eileen A. Bjorkman
On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his F-8 fighter after ...
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Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin : A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind
2020
On November 18, 1965, U.S. Navy pilot Willie Sharp ejected from his F-8 fighter after being hit while positioned over a target in North Vietnam . With a cloud layer beneath him, he did not know if he was over land—where he would most certainly be captured or killed by the North Vietnamese—or over the Gulf of Tonkin. As he ejected, both navy and air force aircraft were already heading toward him to help. What followed was a dramatic rescue made by pilots and other airmen with little or no training or experience in combat search-and-rescue. Told by former military flight test engineer Eileen A. Bjorkman, this story includes nail-biting descriptions of air combat, flight, and rescue. Bjorkman places Sharp's story in the larger context of the U.S. military's bedrock credo—No Man Left Behind—and calls attention to the more than eighty thousand Americans still missing from conflicts since World War I. She also explores the devastating aftershocks of the Vietnam War as Sharp struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. Woven into this gripping tale is the fascinating history of combat search-and-rescue missions that officially began in World War II. Combining the cockiness and camaraderie of Top Gun with the heroics of Sully, Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin is a riveting tale of combat rescue and an unforgettable story about the U.S. military's commitment to leave no man behind.
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Fighter pilots--United States--Biography - Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Aerial operations, American - Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Search and rescue operations--Vietnam - Crusader (Jet fighter plane)Content provider:
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Armed Forces Spring91, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p327-342, 16p
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The article discusses the failure of the U.S. Airforce in the Vietnam war. American ai...
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Armed Forces Spring91, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p327-342, 16p
The article discusses the failure of the U.S. Airforce in the Vietnam war. American airmen in the Air Force believed in air power and were certain that their conventional air power could destroy the enemy in two weeks. The military resources of the U.S. dwarfed the capabilities of the Indochinese Communists. The author also discusses various books and articles on the Vietnam war. The air power was used mainly to pursue limited objectives and the officers were not able to devise a strategy suitable to the war at hand under the conditions laid down by political leaders. Air Force generals were incapable of combining the cultural, social and political aspects of the conflict with its military aspects. This resulted in the defeat of the U.S.
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VIETNAM - UNITED States - UNITED States. Air Force - VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 - STRATEGIC planning - MILITARY aeronautics - GOAL (Psychology) - INDOCHINESE - AIR force personnelContent provider:
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Tiger Check : Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air -to-Air Combat, 1950–1980
Steven A. Fino;Steven A. Fino
How did American fighter pilots respond to the challenges posed by increasing automati...
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Tiger Check : Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air -to-Air Combat, 1950–1980
2017
How did American fighter pilots respond to the challenges posed by increasing automation?Spurred by their commanders during the Korean War to be “tigers,” aggressive and tenacious American fighter pilots charged headlong into packs of fireball-spewing enemy MiGs, relying on their keen eyesight, piloting finesse, and steady trigger fingers to achieve victory. But by the 1980s, American fighter pilots vanquished their foes by focusing on a four-inch-square cockpit display, manipulating electromagnetic waves, and launching rocket-propelled guided missiles from miles away. In this new era of automated, long-range air combat, can fighter pilots still be considered tigers? Aimed at scholars of technology and airpower aficionados alike, Steven A. Fino's Tiger Check offers a detailed study of air -to-air combat focusing on three of the US Air Force's most famed aircraft: the F-86E Sabre, the F-4C Phantom II, and the F-15A Eagle. Fino argues that increasing fire control automation altered what fighter pilots actually did during air -to-air combat. Drawing on an array of sources, as well as his own decade of experience as an F-15C fighter pilot, Fino unpacks not just the technological black box of fighter fire control equipment, but also fighter pilots'attitudes toward their profession and their evolving aircraft. He describes how pilots grappled with the new technologies, acutely aware that the very systems that promised to simplify their jobs while increasing their lethality in the air also threatened to rob them of the quintessential—albeit mythic—fighter pilot experience. Finally, Fino explains that these new systems often required new, unique skills that took time for the pilots to identify and then develop. Eschewing the typical “great machine” or “great pilot” perspectives that dominate aviation historiography, Tiger Check provides a richer perspective on humans and machines working and evolving together in the air . The book illuminates the complex interactions between human and machine that accompany advancing automation in the workplace.
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Airplanes, Military--United States--Armament--History - Fighter planes--United States--History--20th century - Fighter pilots--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Turning the Tide : The University of Alabama in the 1960s
Earl H. Tilford;Earl H. Tilford
This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activis...
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Turning the Tide : The University of Alabama in the 1960s
2014
This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activists formed an alliance with President Frank A. Rose, his staff, and a small group of progressive-minded professors in order to transform the university during a time of social and political turmoil. Together they engaged in a struggle against Governor George Wallace and a state legislature that reflected the worst aspects of racism in a state where the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and 1965 did little to reduce segregation and much to inflame the fears and passions of many white Alabamians. Earl H . Tilford details the origins of the student movement from within the Student Government Association, whose leaders included Ralph Knowles and future governor Don Siegelman, among others; the participation of key members of “The Machine,” the political faction made up of the powerful fraternities and sororities on campus; and the efforts of more radical non-Greek students like Jack Drake, Ed Still, and Sondra Nesmith. Tilford also details the political maneuverings that drove the cause of social change through multiple administrations at the university. Turning the Tide highlights the contributions of university presidents Frank A. Rose and David Mathews, as well as administrators like the dean of men John L. Blackburn, who supported the student leaders but also encouraged them to work within the system rather than against it. Based on archival research, interviews with many of the principal participants, and the author's personal experiences, Tilford's Turning the Tide is a compelling portrait of a university in transition during the turbulence surrounding the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
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College integration--Alabama--History--20th century - Civil rights movements--Alabama--History--20th century - African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Archipelago of Resettlement : Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi;Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
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Archipelago of Resettlement : Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine
2022
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust dispossession of an Indigenous population. This groundbreaking book explores two forms of critical geography: first, archipelagos of empire, examining how the Vietnam War is linked to the US military buildup in Guam and unwavering support of Israel, and second, corresponding archipelagos of trans-Indigenous resistance, tracing how Chamorro decolonization efforts and Palestinian liberation struggles are connected through the Vietnamese refugee figure. Considering distinct yet overlapping modalities of refugee and Indigenous displacement, Gandhi offers tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.
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Refugees--Israel--20th century - Vietnamese--Guam--20th century - Refugees--Guam--20th century - Vietnamese--Israel--20th century - Settler colonialism--Political aspectsContent provider:
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Flying Camelot : The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
Michael W. Hankins;Michael W. Hankins
Flying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched ...
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Flying Camelot : The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
2021
Flying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debates about aircraft superiority went public—and these were not uncontested discussions. Michael W. Hankins delves deep into the fighter pilot culture that gave rise to both designs, showing how a small but vocal group of pilots, engineers, and analysts in the Department of Defense weaponized their own culture to affect technological development and larger political change.The design and advancement of the F-15 and F-16 reflected this group's nostalgic desire to recapture the best of World War I air combat. Known as the'Fighter Mafia,'and later growing into the media savvy political powerhouse'Reform Movement,'it believed that American weapons systems were too complicated and expensive, and thus vulnerable. The group's leader was Colonel John Boyd, a contentious former fighter pilot heralded as a messianic figure by many in its ranks. He and his group advocated for a shift in focus from the multi-role interceptors the Air Force had designed in the early Cold War towards specialized air -to-air combat dogfighters. Their influence stretched beyond design and into larger politicized debates about US national security, debates that still resonate today. A biography of fighter pilot culture and the nostalgia that drove decision-making, Flying Camelot deftly engages both popular culture and archives to animate the movement that shook the foundations of the Pentagon and Congress.
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Fighter pilots--United States--History--20th century - Fighter planes--United States--History--20th century - F-16 (Jet fighter plane)--History - Eagle (Jet fighter plane)--HistoryContent provider:
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The Rescue of Bat 21
Darrell D Whitcomb;Darrell D Whitcomb
When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fi...
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The Rescue of Bat 21
2014
When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after twenty-five years of official secrecy, the story of that dangerous and costly rescue is revealed for the first time by a decorated Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran. Involving personnel from all services, including the Coast Guard, the unorthodox rescue operation claimed the lives of eleven soldiers and airmen, destroyed or damaged several aircraft, and put hundreds of airmen, a secret commando unit, and a South Vietnamese infantry division at risk. The book also examines the thorny debates arising from an operation that balanced one man's life against mounting U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties and material losses, the operation's impact on one of the most critical battles of the war, and the role played by search and rescue as America disengaged from that war.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Search and rescue operationsContent provider:
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The Son Tay Raid : American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten, Revised Edition
John Gargus;John Gargus
In May 1970, aerial photographs revealed what U.S. military intelligence believed was ...
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The Son Tay Raid : American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten, Revised Edition
2010; Vol. 00112
In May 1970, aerial photographs revealed what U.S. military intelligence believed was a POW camp near the town of Son Tay, twenty-three miles west of North Vietnam's capital city. When American officials decided the prisoners were attempting to send signals, they set in motion a daring plan to rescue the more than sixty airmen thought to be held captive.On November 20, a joint group of volunteers from U.S. Army Green Berets and U.S. Air Force Special Operations Forces perfectly executed the raid, only to find the prisoners'quarters empty; the POWs had been moved to a different location. Initially, the Son Tay raid was a devastating disappointment to the men who risked their lives to carry it out. Many vocal critics labeled it as a spectacular failure of our nation's intelligence network. However, subsequent events proved that the audacity of the rescue attempt stunned the North Vietnamese, who implemented immediate changes in the treatment of their captives. The operation also restored the prisoners'faith that their nation had not forgotten them.John Gargus not only participated in the planning phase of the Son Tay rescue, but also flew as a lead navigator for the strike force . This revised edition incorporates the most recent information from raid participants and also includes recent translations of North Vietnamese perspectives. No previous account of this top-secret action has given such a full account or such insight into both the execution and the aftermath of Son Tay.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese - Sontay Raid, 1970Content provider:
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The American Experience in Vietnam : Reflections on an Era
The Editors of Boston Publishing Company;The Editors of Boston Publishing C...
A must-have commemorative volume that presents material from the classic illustrated h...
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The American Experience in Vietnam : Reflections on an Era
2014
A must-have commemorative volume that presents material from the classic illustrated history The Vietnam Experience, now anthologized for the 50th anniversary of the war. When it was originally published, the twenty-five-volume Vietnam Experience offered the definitive historical perspectives of the Vietnam War from some of the best rising authors on the conflict. This new and reimagined edition updates the war on the fifty years that have passed since the war's initiation. The official successor to the Pulitzer Prize–nominated set, The American Experience in Vietnam combines the best serious historical writing about the Vietnam War with new, never-before-published photos and perspectives. New content includes social, cultural, and military analysis; a view of post 1980s Vietnam ; and contextualizing discussion of U.S involvement in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Even if you own the original, The American Experience in Vietnam is a necessary addition for any modern Vietnam War enthusiast.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States - Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Pictorial worksContent provider:
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Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II
Call, Steve;Call, Steve
In Selling Air Power, Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts...
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Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II
2009; Vol. 00124
In Selling Air Power, Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro–air power article appearing in general interest magazines. Public fascination with flight helped create and sustain exaggerated expectations for air power in the minds of both its official proponents and the American public. Articles in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, and Life trumpeted the secure future assured by American air superiority. Military figures like Henry H .'Hap'Arnold and Curtis E. LeMay, radio-television personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, cartoon figures like Steve Canyon, and actors like Jimmy Stewart played key roles in the unfolding campaign. Movies like Twelve O'Clock High!, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, and A Gathering of Eagles projected onto the public imagination vivid images confirming what was coming to be the accepted wisdom: that America's safety against the Soviet threat could best be guaranteed by air power, coupled with nuclear capability. But as the Cold War continued and the specter of the mushroom cloud grew more prominent in American minds, another, more sinister interpretation began to take hold. Call chronicles the shift away from the heroic, patriotic posture of the years just after World War II, toward the threatening, even bizarre imagery of books and movies like Catch-22, On the Beach, and Dr. Strangelove. Call's careful analysis goes beyond the public relations campaigns to probe the intellectual climate that shaped them and gave them power. Selling Air Power adds a critical layer of understanding to studies in military and aviation history, as well as American popular culture.
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Air warfare--Public opinion - Air warfare in mass media - Air warfare--History--20th century - Propaganda, American--History--20th century - Air power in mass media - Air power in popular culture--United States - Air power--United States--Public opinion - Air warfare in popular culture--United States - Air power--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War
John Day Tully;Matthew Masur;Brad Austin;John Day Tully;Matthew Masur;Brad ...
Just as the Vietnam War presented the United States with a series of challenges, it pr...
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Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War
2013
Just as the Vietnam War presented the United States with a series of challenges, it presents a unique challenge to teachers at all levels. The war had a deep and lasting impact on American culture, politics, and foreign policy. Still fraught with controversy, this crucial chapter of the American experience is as rich in teachable moments as it is riddled with potential pitfalls—especially for students a generation or more removed from the events themselves. Addressing this challenge, Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War offers a wealth of resources for teachers at the secondary and university levels. An introductory section features essays by eminent Vietnam War scholars George Herring and Marilyn Young, who reflect on teaching developments since their first pioneering classes on the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. A methods section includes essays that address specific methods and materials and discuss the use of music and film, the White House tapes, oral histories, the Internet, and other multimedia to infuse fresh and innovative dimensions to teaching the war. A topical section offers essays that highlight creative and effective ways to teach important topics, drawing on recently available primary sources and exploring the war's most critical aspects—the Cold War, decolonization, Vietnamese perspectives, the French in Vietnam , the role of the Hmong, and the Tet Offensive. Every essay in the volume offers classroom-tested pedagogical strategies and detailed practical advice. Taken as a whole, Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War will help teachers at all levels navigate through cultural touchstones, myths, political debates, and the myriad trouble spots enmeshed within the national memory of one of the most significant moments in American history. Honorable Mention, Franklin Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials, Association for Asian Studies and the Committee for Teaching about Asia
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Study and teaching--United StatesContent provider:
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Dirty little Secret in the land of a Million Elephants: Barrel Roll and Lost War.
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Air Power History. 2017, Vol. 64, Issue 4, pages. 22
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Head, William P.
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Air Power History. 2017, Vol. 64, Issue 4, pages. 22
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They called defeat 'Victory' Lam Son 719 and the case for airpower
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Air Power History. Summer, 2016, Vol. 63 Issue 2, p7, 20 p.
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Air Power History. Summer, 2016, Vol. 63 Issue 2, p7, 20 p.
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Careers & Employment Canada, 2021
Grey House Publishing Canada;Grey House Publishing Canada
Careers & Employment Canada is a valuable reference tool that gives job seekers and ca...
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Careers & Employment Canada, 2021
2020
Careers & Employment Canada is a valuable reference tool that gives job seekers and career explorers an edge in today's job market. Users will be able to access leads they may not have heard about if it weren't for this great new resource, in print and online. In addition, self-assessment tests assist people in exploring what career is the right fit, while relevant websites provide further information to help them determine a career path.
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United States Air Force
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The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. 2011, v. 3, p1184-1186.
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The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. 2011, v. 3, p1184-1186.
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United States Air Force When the United States entered the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) dominated the defense establishment. The USAF had won its separate service status in [...]
