A sombre mood prevailed as a resolute group of elite US soldiers waited to board Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 on a secret mission in the early days of the Vietnam war. They would never reach ...

Since the last American soldier left South Vietnam in 1975, the history of Special Operations ... The unfortunate loss of comrades in combat, with the mission accomplished in almost every case.

In the last dark nights of the Vietnam War, however, a secret government organization did use a helicopter for a single, sneaky mission. But it was no ordinary aircraft. The helicopter ...

Air America helped deliver and extract U.S. officials to and from remote regions of Vietnam and Laos. But to enable these top-secret missions, the CIA-run airline had to appear inconspicuous to ...

America's Secret War: Minnesota Remembers Vietnam is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...