Surrounding an SA-2 on its launcher, North ... s air defense force, shows little emotion when recalling those deadly days. “The Americans were disturbing our freedom,” he says in Vietnamese ...

Nguyen Cao Ky trained as a pilot in France and North Africa ... s fledgling air force. The following year the army installed Ky as prime minister. He was the senior South Vietnamese official ...

McConnell, was hopping mad. He had just heard that two U.S. F-105 Thunderchiefs had been shot down by MIGs of the tiny (36 jets) North Vietnamese air force. What McConnell wanted to know was how ...