Scream of Eagles by Robert K. Wilcox
In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the US Navy’s kill ratio had fallen to 2:1, meaning that for every enemy plane destroyed, two of their own were lost. Something drastic had to be done, and so the Fighter Weapons School, better known as Top Gun, was formed.
Using genuine enemy planes in brutally realistic dogfights, the Top Gun instructors drilled their students to a whole new level of fighting expertise. This training paid off, and their eventual total air dominance was the one victory the US could take from the Vietnam War.
Through interviews with many of the pilots involved, Robert K. Wilcox is able to give the reader a vivid cockpit-view of the varied dog-fights that took place. Originally published in 1990, Scream of Eagles is a readable and well researched history of the air war in Vietnam.
