BOOK REVIEW: 'Topgun: An American Story' by Dan Pedersen

TOPGUN: AN AMERICAN STORY

By Dan Pedersen

Hachette Books, $36.50 305 pages

Navy aviation officials were stunned in the late 1960s at the heavy losses sustained in Operation Rolling Thunder, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's attempt to win the Vietnam War with a sustained aerial blitz.

This, despite confidence that ...