Speaking of the Vietnam War, one particular story from that conflict goes to show that American fighter pilots not only spun those tall tales about their own combat exploits, but even some of the ...

And the last war in which American combat aviators scored any ... by recognizing the last of the five U.S. aerial warriors to become an ace during the Vietnam War, and to date, he is still the ...

3.4 million combat sorties were launched by the U.S. and South Vietnam between 1965 and 1972. The amount of ammunition fired per soldier was 26 times higher than in World War II. In the ...

I was nine years old in 1964 when the Gulf of Tonkin incident spurred the United States to expand combat operations in Vietnam. Little did I know that the war would persist throughout my high ...

Lexi Krock Years before the first manned airplane flight on December 17, 1903, primitive UAV technology was used for combat and surveillance ... role during the Vietnam War: stealth surveillance.

The Huey by Liberty War Bird Association, a group of Vietnam-era veterans and others ... "She had about 900 combat hours before being returned to the states for maintenance," Caimi said.