To bolster its beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam ally, the U.S. military sent airpower assets in force. As I’ve argued passionately in multiple articles, Operation Linebacker II, the ...

Former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Stirm, a POW during the Vietnam War known for the iconic "Burst of Joy" photo reuniting him with his family, has died in California.

One Kansas veteran was an Air Force asset on the ground in Vietnam, and later served the country in the Army National Guard ...

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 ...

"Thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, for completion of graduation requirements, Academic Year 2001-2." "May 2004." Lt Col Haun ...

Shortly before his final flight over North Vietnam, Air Force Maj. Robert Lodge told his fellow airmen that if his plane ever went down, he would rather die than risk being captured and possibly ...

GLAD NOBODY WAS HURT IN THAT. A VIETNAM WAR VETERAN IS IN CENTRAL IOWA SHARING HIS EXPERIENCES THIS WEEK, INCLUDING HIS TIME AS A PRISONER OF WAR. AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT COLONEL TONY MARSHALL WAS ONCE ...

No matter the variant, the AC-130 is jam-packed with the sort of weaponry one would expect to find on a “gunship.” The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is somewhat pedestrian as far as military aircraft goes—a ...

Air Force Special Operations Command’s newest airplane has been named the Skyraider II, a tribute to the legendary A-1 Skyraider, which saw service in Korea and Vietnam and was made famous by movies ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A U.S. Air Force Staff sergeant returned home to Kentucky decades after he was killed in the Vietnam War. Kentucky State Police led a procession escorting the remains of U.S.

Vietnam was a war where technology clashed with terrain, and the weapons carried into the jungle typically determined the ...

The impetus for Linebacker I was somewhat reactive in nature as opposed to the more proactive spirit of Linebacker II, as the first Linebacker was devised to counter the Communist North Vietnamese ...