Air Combat Bibliography

To support some of the game ideas and developments as well as providing me with some new scenario ideas, I thought it would be useful to provide my current library details. Not so much as showing off but so you can understand my reasoning and references later on.

Operations over Vietnam

• Dorr, Robert F. Air War Hanoi (Chichester: Guild Publishing, 1988).
• Michel III, Marshall L. Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam 1965 - 1972 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997).
• Hobson, Chris. Vietnam Air Losses: United States Airforce, Navy and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in SEA 1961-1973 (Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2001).
• Nicols, John B. and Tillman, Barrett. On Yankee Station: Naval Air War Over Vietnam (Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1997).
• Ethell, Jeffrey. and Price, Alfred. One Day in A Long War - May 10, 1972 Air War, North Vietnam (New York: Random House, 1989).

Specific Aircraft Histories over Vietnam

• Elward, B and Davies P. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965-70 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2001).
• Elward, B and Davies P. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972-73 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002).
• Powell, Robert R. RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2004).
• Burgess, Richard R. and Rausa, Rosario M. US Navy A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009).
• Toperczer, Istvan. MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2001).
• Mersky, Peter. F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1998).
• Birzer, Norman and Mersky, Peter. US Navy A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2004).
• Mersky, Peter. US Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007).

Iran-Iraq Conflict

• Cooper, Tom and Bishop, Farzad. Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980 - 1988 (Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2000).

General Air Combat

• Spick, Mike. Modern Fighter Combat (London: Salamander Books Ltd, 1987).