To compensate for the considerable advantages the F-4 Phantoms had over MiG-21s, the North Vietnamese developed innovative hit-and-run tactics.

The Vietnam War ... Vietnamese New Year, Tet, the North Vietnamese launched a large offensive against the South. The fighting was fierce, but the American-backed South scored a crushing military ...

while helping to strengthen the South Vietnamese army with the aim of getting it to take over the war against communism. At the same time, Nixon escalated the bombing campaign in North Vietnam ...

In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam ... the South Vietnamese army with the aim ...

12 and April 4, 1973, U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifters flew 54 missions into Hanoi, North Vietnam, to pick up 591 American prisoners of war captured by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during ...