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 ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- The U.S. has delivered five trainer aircraft to Vietnam in the biggest arms shipment to its former enemy since the end of the Vietnam War five decades ago. The delivery of T-6C ...

Vietnam’s Unsung Hero Takes to the Sky By the early 1960s, American concern about communist expansion in Southeast Asia ...

The Vietnam War was the first war that was truly televised to the shock and awe of the world. The world saw firsthand the destructive capabilities of American aircraft over the course of this ...

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Willis R. Hall was assigned to a tactical air navigation radio site on a mountain in Laos during ...

To identify the American combat aircraft of the Vietnam War, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a catalog of American aircraft from Military Factory, an online database of arms, vehicles, and aircraft used in ...

The A-1 Skyraider was used heavily during the Vietnam War, and its success can be seen in the number of aircraft losses vs. how many sorties were flown. With more than 90,000 combat sorties flown ...

But aerial weapons research started during World War II did greatly affect U.S. military strategy in Vietnam. By the mid-1960s, the U.S. had built an impressive fleet of aircraft.

The USS Carl Vinson, part of the U.S. Navy’s Third Fleet, will visit Vietnam in early March. US Navy aircraft carriers were a frequent sight off the coast of Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s ...