When Thunder Rolled

'Ed Rasimus straps the reader into the cockpit of an F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber, hurtling through the MiG-filled skies over North Vietnam, and then fast and low into the teeth of the enemy's ferocious air defenses with less than a 50-50 chance of surviving. When Thunder Rolled balances fist-gnawing action with the horror and sorrow of modern aerial combat.' Between 1965 and 1968 more than 330 F-105s were lost - the highest loss rate in Southeast Asia - and many pilots killed, captured, and wounded because the Air Force brought the wrong strategy and disastrous tactics. Rasimus spares none of the outrage he experienced thirty-five years ago in this astute, surgical strike on Washington's deadly arrogance and inflexibility.