John nearly lost his life while serving in Vietnam when he was shot at by enemy fire. The bullet ricocheted off the top of ...

Larry Chambers' orders saved lives by pushing helicopters into the sea during the end of the Vietnam War. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In April 1975, as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon, Americans ...

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

Following his award-winning film "Black Hawk Down," Ridley Scott’s new Netflix docuseries revisits the Battle of Mogadishu with firsthand accounts from those who lived it. Here’s what happened.

Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film 'Black Hawk Down' told the story of 1993’s deadly Battle of Mogadishu. Here is a look back at ...

Those of us who are old enough to remember the space shuttle Challenger disaster can tell you exactly when and where we first ...

US peacekeepers were killed by Somalia militiamen in flip-flops. What went wrong – and did it set a ‘dangerous precedent’?

While the big news coming out of the Donald Trump-Narendra Modi meeting was that the US would sell India its vaunted F-35 ...

The Wings of the North, a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 to preserve and present aviation history, will be presenting the 11th AirExpo at Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie Saturday and ...

Disaster strikes a great many film productions, some worse than others. The forced casting of Bruce Willis in The Bonfire of ...

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