Republic F-105 Thunderchief - Theo Van Geffen

The F-105 Thunderchief was primarily designed for tactical nuclear operations. Forthis reason, it was on nuclear "Victor" alert in Europe (Bitburg and SpangdahlemAir Bases in Germany) and the Far East (Kadena on Okinawa and Osan in theRepublic of Korea). After President John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961,his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, shifted the USAF's focus more andmore to conventional warfare including, through modifications, the mission ofthe F-105\. When the air war against North Vietnam was initiated in earnest onMarch 2, 1965, the USAF needed an aircraft with a load-carrying ability, and theonly aircraft that could do that job was the Thunderchief. This book not onlygives in-depth accounts of various historical F-105 events, with inputs from thepilots involved, but is also lavishly illustrated with over 150 images, many ofwhich have never been published before.