F-8 CRUSADER: Vietnam 1963-73

It entered combat as an escort for Alpha strike packages, braving AAA, SAMs and, from April 3, 1965, Vietnamese MiGs. The pilots employed secondary Sidewinder missiles in all but one of their MiG kills and still boasted the highest exchange ratio (kills divided by losses) at six to one of any U.S. fighter involved in the Vietnam War. Fully illustrated some in color.