This series includes excerpts from rare military technical manuals. This volume features covers the Wild Weasel versions, A-F models and their variants.
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This series includes excerpts from rare military technical manuals. This volume features covers the Wild Weasel versions, A-F models and their variants.
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Fine. Filled cover-to-cover with vintage photos, drawings, exploded views, and excerpts from previously "secret" and "restricted" technical manuals. Emphasizes the unique, groundbreaking, and technical characteristics of the versatile F-105. Covers the Wild Weasel versions, and A-F models and variants. Includes missile and ECM installations, and Vietnam coverage.
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Very good. The format is approximately 8.375 inches by 10.875 inches. 100 pages. Illustrated covers. Illustrations (a few in color). Significant Date. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Filled cover-to-cover with vintage photos, drawings, exploded views, and excerpts from previously "secret" and "restricted" technical manuals. Emphasizes the unique, groundbreaking, and technical characteristics of the versatile F-105. Covers the Wild Weasel versions, and A-F models and variants. Includes missile and ECM installations, and Vietnam coverage. Menard joined the Air Force in 1955, serving as an aircraft maintainer in Africa and Greenland as well as four European and five Asian countries. He also was stationed at six bases in the United States. He rose to the rank of Master Sergeant before retiring in 1977. For the next 22 years, he worked at the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH, first working on aircraft restorations and then becoming the museum's historian. His knowledge of military aircraft was called "encyclopedic." Menard retired from the museum in 1999, The pilots of the F-105s who went "Downtown" did so knowing they were going to war with one hand tied behind their backs. The "rules of engagement" forbade them from attacking any target except the one assigned to them that day. During the early years of the war, the Thud pilots weren't even allowed to attack enemy MiG fighters, or surface-to-air missiles (SAM) sites, unless those adversaries attacked them first! If the first wave of strike aircraft completely destroyed the target on the first pass, the rest of the strike force had to bomb the rubble. More often than not, the Thuds attacked targets in the Hanoi region from the same direction and the same altitudes, day after day. The North Vietnamese weren't stupid, they place their anti-aircraft defenses along the route the Thuds always used. The mountain range just north of the Red River, which led right to Hanoi, soon became known as "Thud Ridge". Such were the 'rules of engagement' the Thud drivers had to live and die by.
