The aircraft’s flexibility will allow the U.S. Air Force to counter adversaries across the spectrum of armed conflict. The ...

The best of these was the A-1 Skyraider, a star in the Korean and Vietnam Wars ... When the U.S. entered the Korean War, the A-1 was the primary attack aircraft for the Navy and Marine Corps.

The war in Vietnam served as the piston aircraft's last great campaign. The Douglas A-1 Skyraider may not have the name recognition of the P-47 Thunderbolt, but it saw plenty of action as a ground ...

The Skyraider pilots returned safely ... for the U.S. military during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Designed late in World War II by Douglas Aircraft Company, it first flew in 1945, just missing ...

Designed for all-weather, night attacks, the two-seat YA-10B was meant to counter Soviet Cold War armor tactics, but only one was built. Project A-X The ...

Florida — Air Force Special Operations Command has dubbed its newest aircraft Skyraider II, a nod to the Cold War-era propeller plane that delivered close air support during the Vietnam War.

Although the U.S. became actively involved in the war in 1961, it wasn't until 1964 that it launched its Air Force against North Vietnam. A number of iconic aircraft participated in the war ...

And that's exactly an aircraft ... Vietnam wars. This plane will forever be remembered for helping Maj. Bernard Fisher become the first airman ever to win the Medal of Honor. Back to the Skyraider ...

For two months, Hackman wandered around the war zone, hitching rides on combat aircraft and shooting ... Ken Hackman with a Douglas A1E Skyraider in Vietnam, 1966 A 1st Air Commando Squadron ...