The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

Over a single 12-month tour, Paden logged 1,800 flight hours as a door gunner, crew chief and flight engineer on one of Vietnam's most indispensable and vulnerable aircraft, the CH-47, also known as ...

Arguably the most distinctive feature of the A-6 was its side-by-side cockpit configuration, which of course was quite uncommon for military aircraft. The A-6 Intruder was not regarded for its ...

PORTAGE, Mich. — Residents of Portage may have noticed a distinctive sound overhead Saturday as a UH-1 Huey 'Greyhound' helicopter flew overhead. The helicopter is widely recognized as the iconic ...

As American aircraft losses mounted in the early years of the Vietnam War, the US Air Force urgently needed a lightweight counter-insurgency aircraft capable of close air support and night ...

Deployed in late 1966, the “Guns a Go-Go” unit quickly proved its worth in Vietnam’s unforgiving terrain. In the dense jungles of Vietnam, at a time when American and North Vietnamese forces were ...