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The Bloodiest Day: MiG-19 Dogfights Over Vietnam in DCS Combat
May 1972 was a day of the most intense air battles in the entire Vietnam War. US Navy and USAF launched large raids against ...
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Vietnam 1967: MiG-19 Scramble Against U.S. Intruders – DCS World
August 1967, four A-6 Intruders of USS Constellation's VA-196 launch on a mission against Duc Noi railway marshaling yard. It ...
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A Pilot's Life - Oh the memories of Kuwait
I remember performing a staff assistance visit (SAV) to Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait, during one tour. JR was my driver, trained ...
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The F-4 Phantom II Has History’s Only Supersonic Air-to-Air Gun Kill
The only confirmed supersonic air-to-air gun kill is credited to a hotshot U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom II pilot named Maj.
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RAAF Huey Pilot John Thynne Had a Hilarious Exit from Vietnam
The unit that then-Pilot Officer Thynne served with was RAAF No. 9 Squadron, which was created in 1939 and saw active service ...
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The pilot who flew above Saigon on Vietnam’s day of victory
Fifty years after the historic aerial parade, former pilot Nguyen Van Nghia returned to Bien Hoa Air Base and recalled the ...
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Downed in enemy territory, this American pilot refused to be captured
In March 1966 Lodge qualified as a pilot at Moody Air Force ... Upon his second tour in Vietnam in January 1971, he was chief of the Fighter Tactics Branch for the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance ...
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Local author, longtime fighter pilot talks new memoir ‘One of the Few’
He then spent the next 26 years as a fighter pilot. The book begins in 1961, years before the United States military became directly involved in Vietnam. But Graham was there in 1962 with the ...