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Stocks struggled in Asia on Thursday as investors gave a lukewarm reception to the US-Vietnam trade deal, while the dollar ...
Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.
I know the words to "Softly and Tenderly" by heart, but this time I didn't understand any of them. That's because we were ...
The U.S. Air Force is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its B-52 Stratofortress fleet, transforming the venerable ...
Retired U.S. Air Force Major Don Harten, known as a River Rat, shared his story of surviving a secret B-52 raid and over 300 ...
It's November 1971. and American air raids against North Vietnam are suspended. But, the war is still far from being over.
Tinker Air Force Base was receiving GAM-77 supersonic missiles, nicknamed Hound Dogs, that would need to be modified.
When John Geoffrey Fairley thinks of the Vietnam War he recalls trudging through the humid countryside as a 24-year-old, being careful not to tread on buried land mines. Unlike most of the young ...
A U.S. Air Force B-52 delivers a bomb load of more than 38,000 pounds in South Vietnam in March 1966 during the Vietnam War. (AP) ...
“The Fog of War” (2003) Not long after the turn of the century, former U.S. defense secretary and Vietnam War architect Robert S. McNamara sat for interviews with documentarian Errol Morris.
The U.S. aircraft deployed during the war ranged from helicopters like the Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) to heavy bombers like Boeing's B-52 Stratofortress.
Sjolund, a 26-year-veteran of the U.S. Air Force, served as a B-52 instructor, evaluator pilot, war planner, college professor, vice wing commander, aircraft crash investigator and inspector general.