Thud ridge by colonel Jack Broughton, USAF

This is a book about the fighting in the air over North Vietnam, and it is written in the language of the fighter pilots of the Air Force. There was no other way. Some of these words are not going to make much sense if you haven't had the experience, and where that seemed to be the case I have tried to explain; others will, I hope, be clear enough from the context, from the people and places and events that I have described. I have attempted to combine a definition of some of the words we used and a general description of how we worked into an appendix "A Bit About Words." Take a look at it if you're puzzled about some of the aspects of fighter pilot chatter. That's what it's for