Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.Publishers, Date: 1998. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4. 263 Pages Indexed. Maroon Boards with white spine and front lettering. Interior text and illustration pages bright, tight, and white. Illustrated with 77 Photographs, Maps, and Diagrams. There are 21 Tables. The U.S. Air Force operated from seven primary bases in Thailand and nearly 300,000 servicemen were stationed in the country. Through extensive research, including previously classified government documents, and interviews with airmen who flew the missions, a detailed history of Air Force operations in Thailand emerges. The primary focus is on the units, their missions and the aircraft involved. The plight of POWs who flew from the Thai bases is also thoroughly examined, with a discussion of the current status of the POW/MIA issue. Here is a history of those men in Thailand - what they did, how they flew, how they suffered, how they died - during unknown air war in Vietnam Glasser has done an outstanding job of taking the reader into uncharted territory and showing what it must have been like for those guys. Contents in Nine Chapters: Vietnam and the Roots of American Involvement, The Buildup to a Limited War, The War Goes Public, The Entwining of Man Machine and War, Foreign Battlefields All, The Meridian, New Decade New Directions, Hanoi's Costly Mistakes, and The War That Followed the Peace. ...