Explore the heroic aerial missions over Vietnam. Pilots share their experiences, challenges, and triumphs in intense air combat during the war.

It's no secret that the Vietnam War was a rough time in U.S. history. Between the military's lack of preparedness for guerrilla warfare, waning support on both sides of the ocean, and North Vietnam's ...

A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran makes full use of recently declassified U.S. documents in this first comprehensive study of fighter combat over North Vietnam. His balanced, ...

The Vietnam War forced militaries to rethink doctrine around guerrilla warfare and jungle operations. Air mobility through helicopters like the UH-1 Huey created modern air assault doctrine and ...

Vietnam was a war where technology clashed with terrain, and the weapons carried into the jungle typically determined the outcome of an entire fight American units relied on rifles, helicopters, tanks ...

Introduction: The Forgotten Warriors -- 1. Patrol -- 2. Life in the Rear -- 3. Endurance -- 4. The Soldiers -- 5. Contact: The Effects of Combat -- 6. Shattered Bodies, Shattered Minds -- 7. Hueys, ...

This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War — a period the country commemorates through poignant museums and memorials. Today, the people of this fast-growing Southeast Asian ...