007 F-8 CRUSADER: Vietnam 1963-73

Recaps the successful career of the F-8 Crusader over Vietnam, freom initial development to final deployment. Provides first-hand accounts, highly detailed battlescene artwork, combat ribbon diagrams and armament views. The Crusader was nicknamed 'last of the gunfighters,' its pilots employed 'secondary' AIM-9D Sidewinder missiles in all but one of their MiG kills, with its unreliable 20 mm guns (they often jammed during strenuous maneuvers), responsible for damaging a number of MiGs. However, in combat the F-8 had the highest 'exchange ratio' (kills divided by losses) at six-to-one of any US combat aircraft involved in the Vietnam War.