Dreadful Lady Over the Mekong Delta : An Analysis of RAAF Canberra Operations in the Vietnam War

Howe, Wing Commander Bob, RAAF (retd)

Published by Air Power Development Centre, Department of Defence, Australia, 2016. ISBN 9781925062199.

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"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers, xvi/268pp, colour and b&w photos. Light wear to card edges/corners; a near fine copy. Looks at the men of No 2 Squadron and the operations they flew in the Vietnam War in their Canberra bombers. From April 1967, the squadron spent four years attacking enemy targets, many of them in the Mekong Delta region, and contending with the politics, weather and 'fog' of war. The riverine operations supported by No 2 Squadron were but a small part of an Allied effort to disrupt the enemys movement of troops and supplies to locations in South Vietnam. It was, according to one commentator, 'a kind of guerrilla warfare conducted in a navy environment'. Bob Howe arrived in Vietnam in 1969 as a youthful Canberra navigator/bomb-aimer, but much of his time there was spent as a specialist in bombing techniques. This book fills a gap in the recording of the RAAFs operations in Vietnam, and also describes how crews overcame the difficulties of operating in an intense Asian war in an aircraft that was designed for a completely different environment.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dreadful Lady Over the Mekong Delta : An Analysis of RAAF Canberra Operations in the Vietnam War
• Publisher: Air Power Development Centre, Department of Defence, Australia, 2016. ISBN 9781925062199.