When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam

About this book

Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber in his engaging account of the Rolling Thunder campaign in the skies over North Vietnam. Between 1965 and 1968 more than 330 F-105s were lostthe highest loss rate in Southeast Asiaand many pilots were killed captured and wounded because of the Air Forces disastrous tactics. The descriptions of Rasimuss one hundred missions some of the most dangerous of the conflict will satisfy anyone addicted to vivid heart-stopping aerial combat as will the details of his transformation from a young man paralyzed with self-doubt into a battle-hardened veteran. His unique perspective candid analysis and the sheer power of his narrative rank his memoir with the finest most entertaining of the war.