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 ...

A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran makes full use of recently declassified U.S. documents in this first comprehensive study of fighter combat over North Vietnam. His balanced, ...

Diane Evans, a Northfield woman, took part in a 1,200-mile bicycle journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon. Evans, an Army combat nurse, was the primary catalyst in establishing the ...

Almost two decades before a Tom Cruise movie helped make the phrase “Top Gun” famous, a Berks County man was among the first Navy pilots schooled in that elite fighter weapons program. Tom Kopel of ...

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 ...

Mark Moyar, a scholar of U.S. foreign and military policy, years back had the opportunity to update an older argument on the viability of the Vietnam War. Moyar argues that the historical consensus on ...