Alpha Strike Vietnam Author:Jeffrey L. Levinson Alpha Strike Vietnam: The Navy's Air War 1964 to 1973 -- This book draws together accounts of 22 US naval aviators who flew strike operations from aircraft carriers on Yankee and Dixie Stations during the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1973. — An Alpha Strike was the ultimate and most fierce of the operations and are described in the book as &q... more »uot;Really unbelievable, indescribable SAMS going up and smoke pillars climbing all over the sky; Shrikes and rockets coming down; flak bursting all over and streams of tracers threaded throughout; planes scream down 30 aircraft in and off the target in one minute." Based on two years of extensive interviewing, the author provides a compelling and historical documentary of the naval air war in South-East Asia.« less