The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

‘11 pax on board, including the commander. All the Americans are out. That is it.’ Those words, spoken by the pilot of the CH-46 helicopter who carried the last eleven Marines out of Vietnam, mark the ...