That’s because the Pentagon needed a plane that could fly low and hover for protracted periods over a battlefield—a niche that jets couldn’t fill. In other words, the A-1 was America’s original Close ...

The bill would name the bridge off of Highway 5 in honor of LCDR Carl J. Woods, whose plane went down in Vietnam.

To bolster its beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam ally, the U.S. military sent airpower assets in force. As I’ve ...

U.S. military aircraft were spotted landing at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday ahead of a funeral for a “true ...

The airframe resulted from a Bureau of Aeronautics request for an all-weather attack aircraft that could one ... prop-driven A-1 Skyraider, the A-6 actually coexisted with the A-1 in service ...

A subgroup of 729 still living veterans deployed to Vietnam, drawn from a broader sample of 12,400 men who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam War, were surveyed over three data ...

Captain Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War Navy veteran from Quincy, died in mid-January. He was 93. Before his funeral on Saturday, military aircraft were arriving at Boston Logan, and Gov.

BOSTON — U.S. military aircraft were spotted landing at Boston ... who spent more than six years in captivity during the Vietnam War. Captain Richard Stratton, a Vietnam War Navy veteran from ...

Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission over the then-Democratic Republic of Vietnam in September 1967 when his plane disappeared.

Type: Multirole transport helicopter Year introduced: 1981 Active aircraft: 26 Top speed: 196 mph Armament: 7.62mm M134 miniguns, 12.7mm Browning M2 heavy machine guns The MH-53E Pave Low ...