BOOK REVIEW: 'Topgun: An American Story' by Dan Pedersen
TOPGUN: AN AMERICAN STORY
By Dan Pedersen
Hachette Books, $36.50 305 pages
Navy aviation officials were stunned in the late 1960s at the heavy losses sustained in Operation Rolling Thunder, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's attempt to win the Vietnam War with a sustained aerial blitz.
This, despite confidence that ...