Over the Beach: The Air War in Vietnam

By Zalin Grant

Categories: History

Zalin Grant follows the Navy pilots who flew F-8 Crusaders and other aircraft from the carrier Oriskany over North Vietnam, telling their story through combat, carrier life, fear, ambition and the families they left at home. He covers the restrictions that hampered the air war, the October 1966 fire on the Oriskany's hangar deck that killed 44 men, and the pilots shot down and held at Hanoi's Hoa Lo prison, among them the air wing commander James Stockdale.

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