that a USAF pilot took his girlfriend on a joyride in the backseat of an
aircraft (unknown as to type: either F-4, F-100F, F-105F, or B-57) on a mission
over NVN-and they were shot down

Well, the last bit is surely an urban legend.

There was a novel about the VN air war--actually not too bad--in which
a fighter (that is, ground attack) pilot takes his girlfriend on a
tour. I found it wholly improbable, but that actually made me wonder
if there wasn't some basis for it: it's not the sort of story one
would put in a novel if it were made up out of whole cloth.

Possibly the novel had "Blue" in the title. It was not the sort of
thing I kept for future reference

all the best -- Dan Ford
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