U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War. Jan 21 U.S. strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after American warships attacked The targets struck by U.S. forces had been used to attack American warships and commerc...
During the Vietnam War, Korat RTAFB was the largest front-line facility of the United States Air Force (USAF) in Thailand from 1962 through 1975. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the airfield was jointly operated as a civil airport for Nakhon Ratchasima. This was ended with the opening ...
- Air Force strength: Currently unavailable TheAir Force brought on a new chief of staff, Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, in August 2020. Brown quickly set about outlining ambitious goals in the fall with the first steps to be enacted in 2021. Goals range from updating methods for training airm...
Her first Vietnam combat tour completed, New Jersey departed Subic Bay 3 April 1969 for Japan. She arrived at Yokosuka for a two-day visit, sailing for the United States 9 April. Her homecoming, however, was to be delayed. On the 15th, while ...
In 2017, we sampled blood from 120 male Vietnamese military workers in the three dioxin-contaminated airbases (Bien Hoa, Da Nang, and Phu Cat) and from 20 workers at an uncontaminated airbase. 2,3,7,8-tetraCDD concentrations were highest in samples from Bien Hoa (18.2 pg/g lipid), ...
also there is a "Black 35" which equates to a Lecherous Man - - - - partial History unedited information from the USAF Site "In April 1962 a unique group of 30 USAF pilots were detailed to serve with the South Vietnamese Air Force in its C-47 squadrons. This permitted ...
Sometime later, the name 'Haley Army Airfield' was added below the emblem in honor of Captain Patrick Haley, an Army aviator killed in action in Vietnam in 1967. There was an open-frame control tower sited at the northeast corner of the hangar. Based on the size of the hangar, I woul...
Danang Air Base, South Vietnam (1966–1972) Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand (1966–1968) Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand Aircraft HU-16 (1966–1967) HC-130 (1966–1967) HH-3 (1966–1969) HH-53B & C (1967–1972)39th...
the great majority of Air Force aircraft on bombing runs took off from bases in Thailand and approached their targets in North Vietnam from the landward side. Enemy radar picked them up while they were still in Thai airspace, and MiGs could maneuver into advantageous positions up to 100 mile...
Famed Air Force fighter pilot and military strategist John Boyd enlisted in the Air Corps while still a junior in high school, to fight in Korea and to serve as a commander in the Vietnam War. His military strategies and the tactical maneuvers he proposed forever changed United States air co...