Phantom Sobre Laos

Waged parallel to the battles on Vietnamese territory, and classified until 1971 as top secret by the U.S. government, the air campaign over Laos to stop the North Vietnamese war supplies flowing through the country to South Vietnam took the form of a hidden war.

A phantom war. By chance, one of its main protagonists bore precisely that name - Phantom - in its designation: the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter.

The extraordinary narrative skill of Buff Honodel, who flew it during 137 combat missions over Laos, puts the reader in the front cockpit of the aircraft, from which he will participate in the most varied missions of day and night bombing, escort of artillery planes, rescue of downed pilots, and rescue of downed pilots, rescue of downed pilots, suppression of anti-aircraft defenses and experimental tests of new weaponry, flying over, among other scenarios, the tortuous Ho Chi Minh Trail, the disputed Paramo de las Tinajas, the deadly and devastated town of Xepon and the North Vietnamese coast of Vinh.

This title includes an exceptional selection of photographs, most of them never published until now, not even in their original American edition, mostly from the private archives of several veterans of the war.