When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot Over North Vietnam
Editorial Reviews
Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2003
"One of the finest combat memoirs I have ever read, from any air force in any war."
Book Description
Riveting stories of aerial combat over Vietnam and candid commentary on the doomed Rolling Thunder campaign Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber, hurtling through the MiG-filled skies over North Vietnam, and then fast and low into the teeth of the enemy's ferocious air defenses-with less than a 50-50 chance of surviving. The most engaging writing ever published about the Rolling Thunder campaign and the war in the North, When Thunder Rolled balances fist-gnawing action with the horror and sorrow of modern aerial combat.
More than 300 F-105s were lost in the campaign because the Air Force brought the wrong strategy, disastrous tactics, and an ill-suited aircraft. A Cold War nuke sled, the Thunderchief was as much the pilots' enemy as the North Vietnamese and LBJ's war planners. Rasimus spares none of the outrage he experienced 35 years ago in this astute, surgical strike on Washington's deadly arrogance and inflexibility.
The first account by a junior officer serving at the height of the campaign, the book breaks the unspoken vow of secrecy surrounding a new pilot's psychological gauntlet of fear. It's a moving testament to those who survived and those who paid the price of honor.
When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot Over North Vietnam
When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot Over North Vietnam,Ed Rasimus,Smithsonian Books,1588341038,Aerial operations, American,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Military,Military - Aviation,Military - Vietnam War,Personal narratives, American,Rasimus, Ed,Vietnam War, 1961-1975,Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,American history: Vietnam War,USA,Vietnam
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