Despite its ‘F-for-fighter' designation, the F-105 was designed to provide an aircraft capable of the delivery of nuclear weapons at high speed, long range and below-the-radar. However, when the Vietnam War began it also emerged as USAF's best available tactical bomber for a limited conventional war. Extensively targeted by MiG-17s and MiG-21s 'Thud' pilots developed innovative tactics that allowed them to compete in air-to-air duels with their smaller, more manoeuvrable enemies. Illustrated throughout with extensive photographs detailing weapon loads, internal features and action shots, this volume examines the Rolling Thunder strike missions and the tactics used for attack and defence.

2014, Osprey Publishing, , 9781782008040,< L-13>,96pp, 10 colour plates, 32 colour + numerous b/w photos, new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 38039-01..............................£13.99 

The USAF introduced the F-4 Phantom II into Vietnam in April 1965 from Ubon RTAB, Thailand. It replaced the previously unsuccsessful F-100 Super Sabre in the MiGCAP role. The F-4C/D soon became the Air Force's principal fighter over the North, destroying 85 MiGs by the close of 1968. This book describes how the USAF turned a gunless naval interceptor into an opponent to the more nimble VPAF MiGs. It explains how the Air Force gradually followed US Navy initiatives in the use of the F-4's missile armament but employed very different tactics and aircrew training. The roles of key personalities such as Col. Robin Olds are discussed, together with armament and markings, crews and engagements.

2004, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841766560,< L-13>,A4 format, 96pp, 9 colour plates, 16 colour photos, b/w photos , new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 38026-01..............................£14.99 

The F-4 Phantom II was the USAF workhorse fighter-bomber for the Linebacker campaign, which eventually saw US forces withdraw from Vietnam in 1973. This book covers the attacks on numerous targets in North Vietnamese cities such as Hanoi and Haiphong, as well as its engagements with Vietnamese MiG-19s and MiG-21s. The USAF's only ace crew, Steve Ritchie and Chuck DeBellvue, who scored their five kills during 1972, is also covered in the book which contains many detailed photographs, a large proportion of which haven't been published before.

2005, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841766577,< L-13>,A4 format, 96pp, 9 colour plates, 17 colour photos, b/w photos , new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 38027-01..............................£14.99 

For every American fighter pilot involved in the Vietnam War, the ultimate goal was to 'kill a MiG'. In eight years of conflict 43 Vietnamese Peoples Air Force aircraft were claimed by US Navy and US Marine Corps Phantom II crews, and one single ace crew produced. Navy Phantom IIs scored the first kills of the Vietnam War, in April 1965, as well as scoring the last in January 1973. This volume charts the successes of the navy fighter crews as they encountered 'MiGs, Missiles and AAA' over North Vietnam.

2001, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841761633,< L-13>,A4 format, 96pp, 6 colour plates, 12 colour photos, 4 colour maps, b/w photos , new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 37999-01..............................£14.99 

The second volume on the US Navy's Phantom II MiG killers of the Vietnam War, this book covers the numerous actions fought out over North Vietnam during the Linebacker I and II operations of 1972-73. No fewer than 17 MiGs were downed during this period, five of them by the Navy's sole aces of the conflict, Lts Randy Cunningham and Willie Driscoll of VF-96. Drawing on primary sources such as surviving Phantom II aircrew and official navy documentation, the author has assembled the most precise appraisal of fighter operations involving Navy Phantom II units and the elusive MiGs of the VPAF.

2002, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841762647,< L-13>,A4 format, 96pp, 7 colour plates, 18 colour photos, 1 colour map, b/w photos , new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 38000-01..............................£14.99 

Undoubtedly the most famous fighter type to see service during World War 1, the Fokker Dr I Triplane was a revelation when it entered service on the Western Front in 1917. Manfred von Richthofen’s JG 1 ‘Flying Circus’ was the first Jasta to re-equip with the new fighter, and in the skilled hands of its numerous aces the Dr I proved a formidable opponent. It remained in service on the Western Front until replaced by the superior Fokker D VII in May 1918. Just weeks prior to that, however, Germany’s leading ace, the great ‘Red Baron’, had been killed.

2001, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841762234,< L-13>,96pp, numerous b/w illustrations, 12 colour plates, New in card cover, ,
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 36668-01..............................£12.99 

Hurriedly designed at the end of 1917 just in time to take part in the German standard fighter competition in January/February 1918, the D VII easily won first prize. As Germanys premier fighter unit, von Richthofen's JG I (led by Hermann Göring in the wake of the 'Red Baron's' death) received the first examples of the D VII to reach the frontline in late April. Built to oppose the new generation of French SPAD XIIIs and British SE 5a and Camel fighters, the D VII was arguably the best all-round fighter of the Great War.

2003, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841765334,< L-13>,96pp, 14 colour plates, numerous b/w photos, New in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 36796-01..............................£12.99 

The first volume this series covered Fokker D VII aces from the four elite Jagdgeschwadern of the German army. This volume charts the story of the many aces who flew the famed fighter in other units in combat during the final months of World War 1. The D VII easily proved the equal of the many Allied aircraft it met in combat, and it served in such roles as bomber interceptor, 'balloon buster' and nightfighter. D VII aces such as Sachsenberg, Degelow and Rumey racked up impressive scores against consistently superior odds.

2004, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841767291,< L-13>,96pp, 14 colour plates, numerous b/w photos, New in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 36861-01..............................£12.99 

One of the first US Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt groups to see action in the European Theatre of Operations, the 56th Fighter Group was also the only fighter unit within the Eighth Air Force to remain equipped with the mighty P-47 until war's end. Led by the inspirational ‘Hub' Zemke, this group was responsible for devising many of the bomber escort tactics employed by VIII Fighter Command between 1943 and 1945. By VE-Day the 56th FG had shot down 100 more enemy aircraft than any other group in the Eighth Air Force, its pilots being credited with 677 kills during 447 missions. The exploits of this elite fighter unit are detailed in this volume with photographs plus colour aircraft profiles and insignia.

2000, Osprey Publishing, , 9781841760476,< L-13>,A4 format, 128pp, numerous b/w photo, 16 colour plates, new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 37972-01..............................£14.99 

Pilots of the Polish Air Force saw action from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe. Flying hopelessly outmoded P.11 fighters in defence of their country in September 1939, a handful of aviators inflicted serious losses on the Luftwaffe before being overwhelmed. The survivors escaped to then neutral Hungary and Romania, before being ordered to France by the new C-in-C of exiled Polish Armed Forces, General Sikorski. With the invasion of Western Europe in May 1940, the surviving pilots were once more thrust into desperate action in newly-formed Polish units

1998, Osprey Publishing, , 9781855327269,< L-13>,A4 format, 100pp, numerous b/w photo, 16 colour plates, new in card cover, , CARD
Subject...Osprey Aviation
Web No. 38013-01..............................£14.99