View the Table of Contents.
Read the Prologue.
"An exceptionally well written, well documented, fast-moving
account."--"Washington Times"
"This is a book written on multiple levels, and well worth
reading."--"M.S. Naval Institute Proceedings"
"This book is a welcome addition to the history of naval
aviation and fills a much-needed void by detailing the later years
of the Vietnam naval air campaign."--"Sea Power"
"Makes for lively, vivid, and informative reading. I would
include it...on my list of the top ten books on the air war in
Vietnam."
--"Air Power History"
"John Sherwood has done a fine job in giving us a first-rate
account of a confusing but critically important period in Naval
Aviation history."--"The Hook"
"As a collection of individual studies and 'war stories, '
"Afterburner" should find an interested readership." --"Military
History"
"With a 45-degree dive angle set, 450 knots of airspeed
building, and my altimeter unwinding like crazy, my scan went
rapidly between the bombsight and flight instruments. . . . When I
looked over my shoulder at the target, I could see where the bombs
had hit and exploded."
Through stories like this diary entry of a fighter pilot, John
Darrell Sherwood brings forth the personal accounts of 21 naval and
marine aviators in this chronicle of the second half of the Navy's
air war over Vietnam.
Despite spending over 200 billion dollars and dropping almost 8
million tons of bombs on Southeast Asia, the U.S. was unable to
score a definitive victory in the air war. Afterburner takes us
inside the day-to-day operations of the air war, particularly
during the most intense year of the campaign: 1972. During that
year, North Vietnam launched the first large-scale conventional
attacks on strongholds in South Vietnam. Sherwood shows how the
U.S. fought back with some of the most innovative air campaigns in
its history, including Nixon's Linebacker bombings and the Navy's
mining operation in Haiphong Harbor. From duels with enemy MiGs to
the experiences of Commander C. Ronald Polfer, who became the voice
of reason among American POWs in the Hanoi Hilton's Room 5, the
detailed stories in Afterburner make these historical events come
to life.
Sherwood compiles and analyzes an incredible breadth of
information about the details of each of the Navy's operations
during the air war and then relates the key parts of the narrative
through the eyes of an pilot or flight officer involved in each
action. Through tales of courage and fear, triumph and horror,
Sherwood reveals the lives of common aircrews who performed
extraordinary service. Their experiences illustrate the personal
nature of war--even from the air--and show that the air war in
Vietnam may have begun as a slow burn, but by 1972, it was more
intense than an F-4 afterburner.
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