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Product: Operation Linebacker I 1972: The first high-tech air war (Air Campaign Book 8) At Easter 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South, and there were almost no US ground troops left to stop it. But air power reinforcements could be rushed to the theater. Operation Linebacker's objective was to destroy the invading forces from the air and cut North Vietnam's supply routes – and luckily in 1972, American air power was beginning a revolution in both technology and tactics.
Most crucial was the introduction of the first effective laser-guided bombs, but the campaign also involved the fearsome AC-130 gunship and saw the debut of helicopter-mounted TOW missiles. Thanks to the new Top Gun fighter school, US naval aviators now also had a real advantage over the MiGs.

This is the fascinating story of arguably the world's first “modern” air campaign. It explains how this complex operation – involving tactical aircraft, strategic bombers, close air support and airlift – defeated the invasion. It also explains the shortcomings of the campaign, the contrasting approaches of the USAF and Navy, and the impact that Linebacker had on modern air warfare.

Product: Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 22) Reference Book
Osprey Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45 Aircraft of the Aces #22 by Henry Sakaida Osprey Publishing (UK)

Product: Schweinfurt–Regensburg 1943: Eighth Air Force’s costly early daylight battles (Air Campaign) Osprey Publishing (UK)

Product: Battle of Berlin 1943–44: Bomber Harris' gamble to end the war (Air Campaign) Throughout late-1943 into early-1944, an epic struggle raged over the skies of Germany between RAF Bomber Command and the Luftwaffe. This campaign had been undertaken by the Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, and was baptized ‘The Battle of Berlin'.
Illustrated throughout with full-colour artwork depicting the enormous scale of the campaign, this is the story of the RAF's much debated attempt to win the war through bombing alone. Osprey Publishing

Product: Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway Osprey Publishing

Product: Rabaul 1943-44: Reducing Japan's great island fortress (Air Campaign) Osprey Publishing

Product: Malta 1940–42: The Axis' air battle for Mediterranean supremacy (Air Campaign) Osprey Publishing

Product: Battle of Britain 1940: The Luftwaffe’s ‘Eagle Attack’ (Air Campaign) Osprey

Product: Iraq 1941: The battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad (Campaign) Osprey Publishing