Vietnam War

From OnAirpower.org

Vietnam War

Remarks: The Vietnam War was the largest use of US airpower since World War II, and would mark the US Air Force's first experience fighting against an integrated, Soviet-style air defense network.

[edit] Timeline

• August 2, 1964 The destroyer USS Maddox, operating off the North Vietnamese coast on an ELINT collection mission, is attacked by three North Vietnamese torpedo patrol boats in what would later be referred to as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident^[1].

[edit] Sources

• Wikipedia entry for Vietnam War

• Vietnam War Resources  at Georgia Tech an excellent set of links on all aspects of the Vietnam War, including the air war
• The Virtual Vietnam Archive  at The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University an online repository of over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials on all aspects of the Vietnam war

• Battlefield: Vietnam  at PBS.org

[edit] References

1. ↑ wikipedia:Gulf of Tonkin Incident