Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall

[gofaster]

So all the discussions about LBJ and Vietnam and Communism got me to reading Bernard Fall's book "Street Without Joy".  Reading that got me to thinking about how the French used F6Fs, 190A8s, and salvaged Ki-43s as COIN aircraft in French Indonesia.  Thinking about that got me to thinking "what if the Viet Minh had access to Soviet aircraft like the Yak 9U and LA5FN?" which got me to thinking about the feasibility of such a set-up in the CT sometime, with the addition of A-20s and IL-2s as bombers for each respective side.


Hmmm.

Thoughts?

Great book by the way.  Worth the time.  It was read by most US commanders going to Vietnam during the Americanization period of the conflict.

[straffo]

As I know there was no 190 in Indochine , the Normandie-Niemen in operation in indochine was during some month (6 from memory) equiped with 190 but it was in France.

And their 190 were so rotten (sabotage) and dangerous they stopped using them quite fast.

They used some SpitIX too but they were so worn out that we should use Spit V in the CT instead

[gofaster]

Yeah I thought about the Spit IXs, but then I'd have to let the LA7s play, and then it'd just be a giant Spitfire/LA7 lovefest.

Hellcat and B-26 vs LA-5FN and Yak9U....hmmmm.