Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots-their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings-two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian conventional bombing sorties would have been impossible. This book reveals who these men were and what they did down in the "Black Hole," a story told by one of their own.
© 2018 Tantor Media, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781541489936
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 6 mars 2018
Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the shadow of pilots-their contributions undervalued, misunderstood, or simply unknown to the general public. This was especially the case with the non-pilot officer aircrew in the Vietnam and Cold War-era B-52 Stratofortress. Of the six people who operated the bomber, three wore navigator wings-two of those men were also bombardiers, the other an electronic warfare officer. Without the navigator-bombardiers in particular, executing the nuclear war strike plan or flying Southeast Asian conventional bombing sorties would have been impossible. This book reveals who these men were and what they did down in the "Black Hole," a story told by one of their own.
© 2018 Tantor Media, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781541489936
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 6 mars 2018
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Thomas
13 mars 2024
Ingen page turner, men inte direkt dåligt
Adrian
3 sep. 2021
Mostly for those interested in the Vietnam war and/or military aviation, but well narrated. The author has a dry humour, so it's quite amusing in places, but also sad, since the book is about war. A look at an otherwise unexplored facet of the Vietnam war.
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