FLYING DRAGONS: The South Vietnamese Air Force by Robert C. Mikesh

FLYING DRAGONS: The South Vietnamese Air Force

by Robert C. Mikesh
foreword by AVM Nguyen-cao-Ky

DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 0850458196
Format: medium hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Osprey Publishing Ltd 1988, 1st edition
Size (mm): 205 w x 275 h x 25 d
Pages: 223
SKU: A4/2510/0675/B931

ABOUT
A complete history of the South Vietnamese Air Force that surviving records and accounts can convey.

In many ways, this is an American story; since VAF 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 VAF 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.

Illustrated throughout with monochrome and colour images and drawings.

CONDITION
Near new with only light shelf wear/spine fading on dust jacket.

REMARKS
Scarce
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