The runway display of 53 Air Force and Navy planes — plus Army missiles — ranged from rescue helicopters to fighters and ...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues unabated.

On one mission, enemy fire shredded the left wing of John Postgate's plane and left his face bloodied with shrapnel.

Once the Sabre planes were detected, the North Vietnamese would either attack or direct other aircraft ... in the air war over Vietnam, with massive casualty rates due to intense enemy fire ...

Pentagon leaders promoted the idea of a high-tech battlefield, with aircraft ... an American plane fired down on Vietnam during a night mission in 1966. For Vietnam, the war felt endless, as ...

Ground attack aircraft don't always get the same level of fame that fighter jets do, but they have long served a critical ...

From Vietcong diplomats to American anti-war activists, these women made their mark on one of the 20th century’s most ...

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, decades of progress in addressing its legacies are coming undone.

His country had fallen. The enemy was approaching. South Vietnamese Air Force Maj. Buang-Ly knew his life and the lives of his wife, and their five young children, ages 1 through 6, were in danger as ...

It was built to dominate the skies — but its greatest threat wasn’t the enemy. This infamous aircraft was so unstable, so unforgiving, it proved deadly to the very pilots who flew it. Discover the ...

No matter the variant, the AC-130 is jam-packed with the sort of weaponry one would expect to find on a “gunship.” ...

Fifty years is a long time (a half-century), but Rene Fougeray remembers the events of April 30, 1975, like they happened ...