When most people think of America's 20th-century fighters, they likely picture something like the F-14 Tomcat featured in "Top Gun," the F-15 Eagle, or something similar. What people likely don't ...

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Rod Kjersten has returned to Vietnam for the first time since he was a nurse in the U.S. Air Force hospital in Cam Ranh Bay.

Then I told our Air Force to begin those mercy flights as ... 8 Mar: An estimated 100,000 refugees began moving from northern regions of South Vietnam toward Hue.10 Mar: Massive North Vietnamese ...

He even wrote a book about his parents fleeing from South Vietnam on the ... the legacy that they left in Vietnam, to this day.” Warner retired from the Air Force after 25 years of service ...

This story has been corrected. Vietnam this week received the first of 12 military training aircraft scheduled for delivery through a U.S. program to strengthen partner nation militaries facing China.

TEMPLE— When he was shot down over North Vietnam during a search-and-rescue mission on September 20, 1965, retired U.S. Air Force Col. Jerry Curtis headed for cover to wait for ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Some of the most vivid images of the Vietnam War included ... unfolded multiple times in South Dakota during the course of the war. Air Force Colonel Leo Thorsness ...