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Combat Tree | The system that made the F 4 the deadliest fighter
In the early 1960s, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom arrived on the scene. Revolutionary for its time, the Phantom was fast, ...
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Cameramen in Vietnam
For U.S. Air Force combat cameramen who served in Vietnam, memories of the war never fade ... while photographing defoliation missions on “Patches,” a C-123K Provider transport famous for ...
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Operation Linebacker Featured Epic Vietnam War Air-to-Air Combat
As Rebecca Grant elaborated in a June 2012 article for Air & Space Forces Magazine: “[T]he nation relied on airpower to halt North Vietnam’s biggest conventional invasion of the Vietnam War ...
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The Value of History in the Air Force
Pinatubo erupted in 1991, and Sierra Hotel, which discusses the cultural changes in the U.S. fighter force after the Vietnam war. Air & Space Senior editor Patricia Trenner talked in February with ...
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50 years later, Vietnam’s battlefields draw retrospective veterans and other tourists
(AP Photo/Hau Dinh) A tourist looks at a U.S Air Force attack jet used during the Vietnam war on display at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) ...