AIRMEN VERSUS GUERRILLAS War Vietnam (Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1978), 224; Schemmer, “Vietnam Casualty Rates,” table 351; Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Jason Study, “The Bombing <strong>of</strong> North Vietnam,” December 1967, 2:49, LBJ; and Wayne Thompson, To Hanoi and Back: The U.S. <strong>Air</strong> Force and North Vietnam, 1966–1973 (Washing<strong>to</strong>n, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2000), 40, 242. 13. Report <strong>of</strong> the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), “The Effectiveness <strong>of</strong> the Rolling Thunder Program in North Vietnam: 1 January–30 September 1966,” November 1966, A-2, A-16, LBJ; CIA, “Report on Rolling Thunder,” 1966, 6, LBJ; IDA, Jason Study, “The Bombing <strong>of</strong> North Vietnam,” 3:49–50; and Raphael Littauer and Norman Uph<strong>of</strong>f, eds., The <strong>Air</strong> War in Indochina, rev. ed. (Bos<strong>to</strong>n, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1971), 283. 14. Rene Francillon, Vietnam: The War in the <strong>Air</strong> (New York: Arch Cape Press, 1987), 208; and McCrea, “Fixed-Wing <strong>Air</strong>craft Losses and Damages,” 6- 2, 6-11, 6-20. 15. McCrea, “Fixed-Wing <strong>Air</strong>craft Losses and Damages,” 2–3; Futrell, Aces and Aerial Vic<strong>to</strong>ries, 4; and Thompson, To Hanoi and Back, 49. 16. Cable <strong>to</strong> White House Situation Room, 12/16437 May, 1; Intelligence memorandum, subject: Status Report on <strong>SAM</strong>s in North Vietnam, 29 June 1965, 1–2; and memorandum, subject: CIA Appreciation <strong>of</strong> SA-2 Activity in North Vietnam during Late July, 1 August 1965, 1, in CIA Research Reports: Vietnam and Southeast Asia, 1946–1976, ed. Paul Kesaris (Frederick, Md.: University Publications, 1983); Futrell, Aces and Aerial Vic<strong>to</strong>ries, 5; Notes <strong>of</strong> Lyndon B. Johnson, White House meeting, 16 May 1965, 3, LBJ; and Thomas D. Boettcher, Vietnam: The Valor and the Sorrow (Bos<strong>to</strong>n, Mass.: Little, Brown and Co., 1985), 232. 17. McCrea, “Fixed-Wing <strong>Air</strong>craft Losses and Damages,” 2–10; Granville, “Summary <strong>of</strong> USAF <strong>Air</strong>craft Losses,” 10–11; and US Pacific Fleet, “An Analysis <strong>of</strong> SA-2 Missile Activity in North Vietnam from July 1965 through March 1968,” staff study 8–68, Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 1968, 2, NHC. 18. Momyer, <strong>Air</strong> Power in Three Wars, 136. 19. Nordeen, <strong>Air</strong> Warfare, 16; Peter Mersky and Norman Polmar, The Naval <strong>Air</strong> War in Vietnam (Annapolis, Md.: Nautical and Aviation, 1981), 61; Bryce Walker, Fighting Jets (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1983), 112; and M. J. Armitage and R. A. Mason, <strong>Air</strong> Power in the Nuclear Age, 2d ed. (Urbana, Ill.: University <strong>of</strong> Illinois, 1985), 108. 20. Marshall Michel, Clashes: <strong>Air</strong> Combat over North Vietnam, 1965–1972 (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 1997), 32; Nordeen, <strong>Air</strong> Warfare, 18; CIA, “Effectiveness <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> Campaign,” B-22; and Paul Burbage et al., “<strong>Air</strong> Superiority Tactics over North Vietnam” (thesis, <strong>Air</strong> Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., 1975), 13, AUL. 21. Giles Van Nederveen, “Sparks over Vietnam: The EB-66 and the Early Struggle <strong>of</strong> Tactical Electronic Warfare,” CADRE paper, 2000, 11, 14, 19, 38–44, 62, 70, 74, 76, 99; Futrell, Aces and Aerial Vic<strong>to</strong>ries, 4–5; Nordeen, <strong>Air</strong> Warfare, 13; Gordon Swanborough and Peter Bowers, United States Navy <strong>Air</strong>craft since 1911 (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1968), 177–78; Gordon Swanborough and Peter Bowers, United States Military <strong>Air</strong>- 141
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