Mig-17/19 Aces Of The Vietnam War

At the start of the Vietnam War, the Vietnam People`s Air Force were equipped with slow, old Korean War generation fighters - MiG-17s and MiG-19s - types that should have offered little opposition to the cutting-edge fighter-bombers such as the F-4 Phantom II and the F-8 Crusader. Yet, when the USAF and US Navy unleashed their aircraft on North Vietnam in 1965, the inexperienced pilots of the VPAF were able to shatter the illusion of US air superiority. Featuring information previously unavailable in the west and only recently released from archives in Vietnam, this is the first major analysis of the exploits of Vietnamese pilots in the David and Goliath contest with the US over the skies of Vietnam.