Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

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Over the course of World War II, combat aircraft flown by the United States, either with the United States Army Air Corps or U.S. Navy, accomplished tens of thousands of air combat victories or kills ...

Every day, how grateful I am that my father was one of the lucky ones and returned home. That was really a gift.” ...

In December 1971, Gene Hamner, Raven 12, was flying a T-28 aircraft along the Nam Ou River in Laos. Armed with .50-caliber machine guns and high-explosive rockets, Hamner and the CIA officer in his ...

Former U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Stirm, a POW during the Vietnam War known for the iconic "Burst of Joy" photo reuniting him ...

There was a time when one could probably have been forgiven for wondering if Mark Berent had a death wish. Why else would someone spend four years and a day (four tours) flying air combat missions ...

Bong Son, Vietnam, Feb. 2, 1966: Ground crewmen prepare to refuel a Scout H-13 helicopter during the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s participation in Operation White Wing. Flying “low and slow,” the pilots ...

The Vietnam War changed us as a nation. And it continues to shape us. More than half a century later, we have a better understanding of the balance between love of country and disagreeing with it.

As I noted in my recent story on the passing of Col. Perry Dahl (USAF, ret.) at the ripe old age of 101, American fighter aces—i.e., combat aviators who destroyed five or more enemy aircraft in aerial ...

A half-century ago, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. James “Russ” McCarthy was a part of the nation’s last big military action of the Vietnam War — Operation Linebacker II. Dubbed the “Christmas Bombings, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The remains of an Air Force colonel missing since 1969 are finally back home. The aircraft containing the remains of Ernest De Soto arrived at San Francisco International ...