TAC RECON: US Air Force Tactical Reconnaissance Combat Operations from WWI to the Gulf War

Examines the American Air Force aircrews who flew tactical reconnaissance combat missions from WWI to the Gulf War. In the first half of the 20th-century, they flew armed and defended themselves against enemy aircraft. In the later half of the 20th-century, they flew "unarmed and unafraid" against MiG fighters and some of the most intense antiaircraft defenses in history. Well illus.