The Republic F-105 Thunderchief, known to its crews as the Thud, was a cornerstone of US Air Force strike capability dur ...

To bolster their beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) ally, the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps sent airpower assets in what turned out to be the first sustained bombing ...

More U.S. Air Force. Vietnam's combat aircraft fleet was supplied by the Soviet Union and later Russia. Vietnam has also purchased a dozen Yak-130 training aircraft from Moscow in 2019, ...

With more than 90,000 combat sorties flown, 266 A-1s were lost, 201 from the Air Force and 65 from the Navy. Those losses resulted in the deaths of 102 pilots from combat action.

Some flew into the combat zone as many as 200 times. No other women – and few men – can say they saw the Vietnam War for as long as these stewardesses did. Advertisement ...

That was just one of many commendations earned over two combat tours in Vietnam. In addition to the Purple Heart, Postgate received five Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Bronze Star, 33 Air ...

More than 30 Vietnam air cavalry veterans visited a contemporary air cavalry unit at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga. That unit – the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, known as the ...

America’s Airpower Response. To bolster their beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) ally, the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps sent airpower assets in what turned out to be ...