U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War.

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...

Colonel Tomb was supposedly a double ace of the VPAF who scored anywhere from twelve to fourteen air-to-air kills against American warplanes. As the saying goes, “The first casualty of war is truth.” ...

The Vietnam war remains one of the most wrenching of U.S. conflicts, as seen in a new Apple TV+ docuseries, 'Vietnam: The War ...

Things were said that African Americans weren’t smart enough to be pilots, but we prevailed," said George Hamilton. The ...

Downing, 33, of Columbus, Wisconsin, was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron ... A U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin, who was killed in 1967 during the Vietnam War, has been ...

After more than a half-century, a southern Wisconsin Air Force veteran killed in the Vietnam War finally was reunited ... was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 12th Tactical Fighter ...

Captain Richard Stratton did more than serve his country in the Vietnam War — the prisoner of war was known as The Beak, a heroic member of the World-Famous Golden Dragons, Strike Fighter 192.

A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted ... Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 12th ...

(WFRV) – After decades of investigation, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has announced that a Wisconsin pilot killed during the Vietnam War has been identified ... Downing was assigned to ...