The US Navy's Seventh Fleet was at the forefront of America's campaign in Vietnam for a decade, from the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that began it all to the final evacuation of South Vietnam. Its mission was highly strategic, and while its primary role was to provide carrier-based airpower, the fleet's operations were complex, sensitive, and varied. This book is the first overall examination of how the US Navy's most powerful fleet fought and operated in Vietnam. Distilled from thousands of declassified secret documents by renowned US Navy specialist Dr Edward J. Marolda, it offers a unique portrait of the Seventh Fleet's war, from Rolling Thunder to the Navy's intelligence-gathering and interdiction operations, and from search-and-rescue to fleet logistics. Illustrated with archive photos, 3D diagrams and spectacular new artwork, and informed by never-before-translated documents, publications, and personal accounts from North Vietnamese, Soviet, and Chinese sources, this is the real story behind the US Navy's Vietnam War.