Comments: softcover, 96 pages, 41 black-and-white and 36 color photos

ISBN: 978-1-4728-1451-7

Price: $23

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

From the publisher: Perhaps the most famous jet fighter in Vietnam, the F-4 Phantom II was primarily used as a land-based fighter-bomber and reconnaissance platform. But its naval origins and the immense contribution made by its original carrier-based versions founded its legend.

Davies’ book examines those aspects of the Phantom that made it so crucial to U.S. Navy pilots during the Vietnam War — massive engine power, long range, speed, the most powerful airborne search and fire-control radar installed in a fighter at the time, and, of course its versatility as a ground attack and air-to-air platform. Firsthand accounts, unique profile artwork, and rare photographs provide the history of one of the most important carrier-based aircraft in Southeast Asia during the war.

FSM says: Not a lot of detail in the photos, but five two-page spreads provide color plates with aircraft profile illustrations showing unit markings for U.S. carrier craft from: Midway, Independence, Kitty Hawk, Coral Sea, Ranger, Forrestal, Enterprise, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Constellation, and America.