{"product_id":"9781493026838","title":"Midair","description":"Midair is a true account of one of the most remarkable tales of survival in the history of aviation – a midair collision at 30,000 feet by two bomb-laden B-52s over a category 5 super typhoon above the South China Sea during the outset of the Vietnam War. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthored by Craig K. Collins, the nephew of B-52 pilot Maj. Don Harten, Midair is an historically \u003cbr\u003eimportant work that is about more than survival. Interwoven through Harten’s dramatic story of his \u003cbr\u003emillion-to-one struggle against near-certain death is a previously unexamined look at how America \u003cbr\u003ehad developed an aerial battle plan that would likely have ended the Vietnam conflict in under a \u003cbr\u003emonth during the late winter of 1965. Instead, the country’s war planners and politicians veered \u003cbr\u003eoff course and into a bloody eight-year quagmire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarten was on the February 1965 top-secret mission – a massive B-52 bombing raid of railways, supply depots, and airfields in and around Hanoi – that was called off in mid-flight. That mission and battle plan was mothballed until Dec. 18, 1972, when it was dusted off and dubbed Linebacker II, effectively ending the war within a week. Over 120 B-52s bombed Hanoi-area military installations for eight consecutive days. As a result of the heavy bombing, the North Vietnamese declared a truce, attended peace talks in Paris in early January and signed the Paris Peace Accords, ending hostilities in Vietnam on Jan. 27, 1973.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the gripping tale of a young Air Force officer’s first combat mission that instantly pulls the reader in and never lets up.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130631864560,"sku":"9781493026838","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781493026838_p0.jpg?v=1769895405","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781493026838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}