Volume 9, Number 12 · January 4, 1968
Our Air War
By Robert Crichton
Air War: Vietnam
by Frank Harvey
Bantam, 192 pp., $.75 (paper)
In the spring of 1966 a freelance writer named Frank Harvey was invited by Maj. George Weiss, PIO officer for the 7th Air Force in Saigon, to Vietnam to do a 'definitive' study of the conduct of the air war. Harvey was reluctant to go; he is fifty-three and the assignment would be arduous and hazardous. But because of his record as a military specialist (Harvey has written some eighty articles on military subjects in the past eighteen years, all of them laudatory, some of them adulatory), Weiss argued that Harvey was 'obligated' to go.
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