RF-8 Crusader Units over Cuba and Vietnam (Osprey Combat Aircraft 12)

Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced by Vought. The photo-bird's first operational test came in the autumn of 1962 when its overflights of Cuba alerted the world to the likely presence of medium-range ballistic missiles on the Caribbean island. The recce Crusader's next action came during the long years of the Vietnam War (1955-1975). This volume is the second of two in the Combat Aircraft series devoted to the Crusader, the first title (again by Peter Mersky) having covered the F-8 fighter variants, and their MiG-killing exploits, during the Vietnam War.

• RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat (Combat Aircraft)
• US Navy F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War 1969-73 (Combat Aircraft)
• F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War (Osprey Combat Aircraft 7)
• US Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War 1963–1973 (Combat Aircraft)
• US Navy A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War (Osprey Combat Aircraft 48)
• A-6 Intruder Units 1974-96 (Combat Aircraft)
• A-6 Intruder Units of the Vietnam War (Combat Aircraft)
• US Navy A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War (Combat Aircraft)
• US Navy F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War 1964-68 (Combat Aircraft)
• Blue Moon over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis (General Aviation)