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 ...
Air mobility revolutionized warfare during the Vietnam War, changing how troops were deployed, battles were fought, and ...
It was after midnight on June 19, 1968, when U.S. Navy Lt. Clyde Lassen and his helicopter crew flew into the jungle of North Vietnam to rescue two Navy aviators whose fighter jet had been shot down.
The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...
This year a typhoon and extreme heat dented the harvest, scrambling prices for kumquats and other ornamental plants associated with the holiday, known as Tet in Vietnam. Some people bought smaller ...
"All heck broke loose" on Jan. 5, 1968, when Algona native Greg Arrowood and his unit were flying helicopters in South ...
A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas killed all 67 people aboard the two ...
who fought for South Vietnam in the Vietnam War. Warning: This story contains some imagery that readers might find confronting. Half a century since the war ended, Mr Tran and others like him are ...
While the North Korean soldiers are “all young, trained, hardy fighters,”Pokémon said, they would have not previously faced a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) – which have transformed the war ...
During his campaign, Donald J. Trump vowed to end the Ukraine war by Day 1 of his new term as president. Jeanna Smialek, the Brussels bureau chief for The New York Times, looks at how he described ...