Among other things, the Vietnam War served as the proving grounds for three famous U.S. Navy ”A-planes,” namely ... this article—as a reconnaissance aircraft, thusly redesignated the ...

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II Up there with the Huey as an icon of Vietnam, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was the most prolific aircraft of the war. Designed by the Navy as a state-of ...

Robert Lodge chose death over the prospect of giving up information to enemy forces. (U.S. Air Force) Maj. Robert Alfred ...

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton in Washington for a scheduled deployment to the Western ...

remains one of the most iconic jets to have flown during the Vietnam War. The F-8 Crusader was a supersonic carrier-based aircraft manufactured by Chance Vought. Developed in 1952 at the Navy's ...

Sinking the USS Enterprise Would be Easier Than Scrapping Her: The USS Enterprise, CVN-65, was the first nuclear-powered ...

With the arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan in Bremerton in 2024, the city now hosts two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The Navy plans to move the USS Nimitz to Norfolk, VA in 2026 and ...

Speaking as a former naval aviator (515 missions during the Vietnam War), the content of the Signal texts that the Atlantic ...

Naval Base Kitsap would swap the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier for ... commissioned in 1975 just days after the fall of Saigon ended the Vietnam War, is slated to move from the naval base ...

In the 60’s, in a small country in South-East Asia, a war for the hearts and minds of the people was going on; that country ...