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Media Digest | Vietnam War Officer’s Ideas Changed Postwar Army

Former U.S. Army armor officer Mike Guardia has made the most of his second career as an insightful military biographer. The talented author of a 2013 book about Vietnam War...
Vietnam’s Wild Weasels

A band of daring fliers team up in a classified program to take out the radars guiding their biggest threat—Soviet SA-2 Guideline missiles. Like many American boys who had grown...
VIDEO: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Discuss New Vietnam Documentary

The Vietnam War, a documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premieres Sunday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. on PBS. In an interview with Vietnam magazine, Burns and Novick...
Valor | John Lee Levitow

Air Force AC-47 gunships, called “Spooky” and “Puff the Magic Dragon,” prowled the skies over South Vietnam during the dangerous hours of darkness when grunts on the...

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A Farewell Salute

More than 50 years after being shot down, a Navy pilot is honored for his sacrifice The inscription on the white marble headstone of Lt. Cmdr. Frederick Peter Crosby, whose remains were buried in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San...
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America’s ‘Last Battle’ of the Vietnam War was a Fiasco

The humiliating April 29, 1975, image of U.S. helicopters evacuating Americans and Vietnamese from Saigon rooftops as North Vietnamese troops overran South Vietnam to win the Vietnam War was a political-military disaster damaging...
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How North Vietnam Claimed More Aces Than It Really Had

North Vietnam racked up fewer aerial victories than it claimed...
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Joining Forces

Nations that sent troops to support the U.S and South Vietnam...
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The South Vietnam Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His...

As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ship’s quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster...
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Life as an Air America CIA Pilot in Vietnam

In September 1964, Neil Hansen began his adventure as a pilot with Air America—the CIA’s secret airline—working clandestine operations in Southeast Asia....
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Valor | Sgt. Richard Loy Etchberger

He died saving fellow airmen on a secret mission. And fellow airmen campaigned to get him an MOH delayed for decades....
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Arsenal | F-100D Super Sabre (Hun)

On April 16, 1961, six F-100D Super Sabres deployed to Thailand’s Don Muang Air Field, initiating the fighter-bomber’s 10-year deployment to Indochina. The plane was North American Aviation’s successor to its F-86 Sabre, famous for...


	
	
		
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