As Rebecca Grant elaborated in a June 2012 article for Air & Space Forces Magazine: “[T]he nation relied on airpower to halt ...

On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.

Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing disappeared during a nighttime armed reconnaissance mission over the then-Democratic Republic of Vietnam, officials said ...

Contrast this with, say, World War II, where two fighter pilots ... or “GIB [Guy In Back”]) in the U.S. Air Force. So then, America’s Vietnam ace roster consists of one USAF pilot, one ...

Now, as the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon approaches, Apple TV+ has delivered a six-part series that offers up a ...

A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W.

(WLUK) -- The remains of a Wisconsin pilot who was killed during the Vietnam War have been identified. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, 33, of Columbus, was accounted for Dec. 20 ...

As noted by the Air Force Historical Support Division ... more enemy aircraft destroyed in air-to-air combat) of the Vietnam War: ...