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Flying Dragons : The South Vietnamese Air Force by Robert C. Mikesh (2005, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSchiffer Publishing, The Limited

ISBN-100764321587

ISBN-139780764321580

eBay Product ID (ePID)44188213

Product Key Features

Book TitleFlying Dragons : the South Vietnamese Air Force

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicAsia / Southeast Asia, Military / Aviation

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorRobert C. Mikesh

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height8.6 in

Item Weight52.9 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-117804

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal959.704/332

SynopsisThis book contains the most complete history of the South Vietnamese Air Force that surviving records and accounts can convey. In many ways, this is an American story; since VNAF was organized, trained, equipped, and attained its maximum strength under the tutelage of the US military. In view of numbers of aircraft, the South Vietnamese Air Force emerged as the fourth largest Air Force in the world-behind Communist China, the United States, and the Soviet Union. This is not a political history of the Vietnam War; rather it is the story of the transition of the VNAF from an under-trained and ill-equipped French Air Force auxiliary unit to a size during its 20-year life span, so large that it was almost incapable of sustaining itself with sufficient numbers of trained personnel and support materials. This is an up-dated version of the book by this same name and author published in 1988, which now features an abundance of color photographs and new incites of the air force's role in that war that have settled with time.

LC Classification NumberDS558.8.M54 2005