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Going Downtown : The War Against Hanoi & Washington by J. Broughton *VERY GOOD*

Description: Review From Publishers WeeklyBroughton, a Korean War ace, flew 102 missions in Vietnam and was vice-commander of a fighter wing. His suspenseful descriptions here of air combat in both wars is unsurpassed. The emphasis is on the extraordinary restrictions imposed on American pilots in the latter conflict and how they responded. When two of his pilots inadvertently strafed a Soviet freighter in 1967, Broughton tried to shield them from official ire by destroying the gun-camera record of the event. All three pilots were charged by their commanding general with conspiracy against the U.S. government and kept in the isolation ward of the psychiatric facility at Clark airbase in the Philippines. "The whole thing was so absurd," writes Broughton, "that you had to laugh to avoid numbing bitterness." There are many laughs in this book, for its author, in common with other fighter pilots, has a guffaw-provoking way with words; but this account is foremost an indictment of civilian and military mismanagement of the air war in Vietnam by leaders who, as Wolfe puts it in the foreword, "wasted them shamefully by not letting them fight hard enough."

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Going Downtown : The War Against Hanoi & Washington by J. Broughton *VERY GOOD*

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Item must be returned within: 30 Days

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Book Title: Going Downtown: Hanoi and Washington DC

Original Language: English

Item Length: 9.25 in

Vintage: Yes

Personalize: No

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Personalized: No

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Topic: Hanoi, History, Vietnam War, Washington DC

Item Width: 6.25 in

Signed: No

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Orion Books

Intended Audience: Adults

Inscribed: No

Edition: First Edition

Publication Year: 1988

Type: Memoirs

Era: 1960s

Author: Jack Broughton

Genre: Aviation, History, Military, Politics & Society, War & Combat

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Number of Pages: 300 pgs

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