Air Force Maj. Robert Lodge decided not to eject from his stricken plane over North Vietnam to make sure the enemy never ...

Craig Honour and Jack "Fingers" Ensch were naval aviators during the Vietnam War, and on a recent afternoon they spoke of how wonderful it is to be flying — as long as no one is shooting at you. "I ...

F-4E, the Phantom version equipped with an internal gun entered service just too late to participate in the early phase of ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Three months before the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger huddled together in the Oval Office to discuss when and how to get out of Vietnam. Despite a ...

Key Point: Had it not been for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the Vietnam War might have ended in the spring of 1972 with North Vietnamese tanks in the streets of Saigon. It was forty-five years ago, on ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Airpower had always been a key factor—actually the key factor—factor in America’s favor during the war in Indochina. But in 1972, it was the only politically feasible ...

Phantoms and MiGs clashing in a furious dogfight that pushed pilots to their limits in speed, skill, and survival.

An extraordinary account of the impact space weather had on military operations in Vietnam in 1972 was found buried in the US Navy archives, according to a newly published article in Space Weather. On ...

Four U.S. Army veterans who rescued seven people from a burning transport plane during the Vietnam War each received a Silver Star on Tuesday for their heroic actions. Robert Monette, Robert Frank, ...

A summer-long effort coined "The People's Blockade" to stop ammunition ships from transiting out of Hood Canal, which also included residents blocking train tracks to and from the Bangor base in ...

Early Sunday morning, George McGovern — the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee and former U.S. senator from South Dakota — died at age 90. On Wednesday, his family had announced that McGovern was ...