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Fly By Knights
Author | : Roger D. Graham |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476646831 |
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By the time of the Vietnam War, the U.S. military had transitioned to jet aircraft. Yet leaders soon learned prop-driven planes could still play a role in counterinsurgency warfare. World War II-era Douglas B-26 light bombers proved effective in close air support and interdiction, beginning with Operation Farm Gate in 1961. Forty B-26s were remanufactured as improved A-26 attack aircraft, which destroyed hundreds of North Vietnamese supply vehicles on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1966-1969. The personal recollections of 37 pilots, navigators, maintenance and armament personnel, and family members, tell the harrowing story of B-26 and A-26 Air Commando Wing combat operations in Vietnam and Laos.
Air Commando One
Author | : Warren A. Trest |
Publsiher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781588344229 |
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Air-dropping agents deep behind enemy lines in clandestine night missions during the Korean War, commanding secret flights into Tibet in 1960 to support the anticommunist guerilla uprising, participating in plans for the 1962 Bay of Pigs invasion—even before the escalation of the Vietnam War, Brigadier General Harry C. “Heinie” Aderholt worked at the heart of both the U.S. Air Force and CIA special operations worldwide. In 1964 he became commander of the famed First Air Commando Wing, fighting to build up special operations capabilities among the American and South Vietnamese airmen. In 1966 and 1967 he and his men set the record for interdicting the flow of enemy trucks over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and North Vietnam. Drawing on official records, personal papers, and interviews with Aderholt and many who worked with him, Air Force historian Warren A. Trest details the life and career of this charismatic, unconventional military leader who has become a legend of the Cold War Air Force. He tells how Aderholt’s vigorous support of low-flying, propeller-driven aircraft and nonnuclear munitions pitted him against his superiors, who were steeped in doctrines of massive retaliation and “higher and faster” tactical air power. In the mid-1960s Aderholt’s clash with Seventh Air Force Commander General William W. Momyer reflected a schism that still exists between the traditional Air Force and its unconventional special operations wings. The book also integrates U.S. Air Force and CIA accounts of some of the most pivotal events of the past fifty years.
Air Force Commando
Author | : Madonna Yancey |
Publsiher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2000-12 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9781563116001 |
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"A special acknowledgment goes to Madonna Yancey for writing the manuscript for the front of this publication"--P.4.
Usaf Air Commando Secret Wars from Laos to Latin America
Author | : Eugene D. Rossel |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781514480052 |
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The Air Commando secret wars happened mostly during the Vietnam War time frame and was a global effort involving USAF volunteer personnel who were given official military orders that did not necessarily specify the country they served in, and civilian clothes were many times authorized. Later they had great difficulty proving that they served in many of these countries, which affected their future VA care. These operations were used to strengthen normally a poor country with little military resources and training with secret warriors frequently being there doing some of their legwork behind the scenes. All the operations were tight-lipped, frequently forbidden to tell families where you were and what you were doing. As an example; Capt. Bob Simpsons death, the first fighter pilot KIA in Vietnam in August 1962, became a total fabrication of where, why, and how and took a number of years before the government came clean because of my efforts. Secret wars have a long history, and they will continue because of the interest of more-powerful nations with their less fortunate brethren.
Operation Thursday Birth Of The Air Commandos Illustrated Edition
Author | : Herbert A. Mason Jr.,SSgt. Randy G. Bergeron |
Publsiher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781786252494 |
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Includes 20 Illustrations OPERATION THURSDAY — A bold, unconventional use of American air power to support British ground troops in Burma, Operation THURSDAY marked a critical development in the history of modern warfare. On March 5-6, 1944, the Allies conducted an air invasion of Burma, in an attempt to push back the Japanese in the China-Burma-India Theater and re-establish the land route between India and China. U.S. airmen formed a special operations unit—the 1st Air Commando Group—to transport troops to jungle locations and resupply them, often in the line of fire. The remarkable success of this operation lives on, fifty years later, among the elite 1st Air Commando Group—a force committed to meeting the challenge of unconventional warfare any time, any place, anywhere.
1st Air Commando Group
Author | : R. D. Van Wagner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4241608 |
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Air Commando
Author | : Philip D. Chinnery |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1997-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312958811 |
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From the glider pilots who landed deep behind Jpanese lines, to the gunship crews who hunted over the dark jungle of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, to Desert Storm's Special Operations choppers, al the daring rescues and last-minute landings are here, straight from the Air Commandos' own stories. Includes eight-page photo insert.
Air Commandos Against Japan
Author | : Carolyn C Y'Blood |
Publsiher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612515793 |
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In 1943 the U.S. Army Air Forces created what would become the Air Commandos, a unit that marked a milestone in tactical operations in support of British ground forces invading Burma. William T. Y’Blood tells the story of how these daring American aviators trained and went into combat using unconventional hit-and-run tactics to confuse the enemy and destroy their lines of communication and supply. The force comprised light planes to evacuate wounded, transports to move heavy cargo, fighters, gliders, helicopters, and more than five hundred men. The book describes how this top-secret force successfully attacked the enemy from the air, resupplied British commandos on the ground, and airlifted the wounded out of the battle area—eventually driving the Japanese out of Burma.