Lt Jerry Tucker kill was disallowed on the grounds that it had been achieved without the use of any weapons,… Read More
Dotan squeezed the trigger and fired long burst into the jet's right wing root. The wing was quickly ripped… Read More
The story of a confused dogfight during the Vietnam War. After having shot down a North Vietnamese MiG-17 on May… Read More
The OV-1 Mohawk achieved the only US Army air-to-air victory during the Vietnam War. In 1957, the US Army identified… Read More
“The flight lasted only about 25 minutes, and we landed back at base with only 800 lbs of fuel. Both… Read More
'The MiG pilot had three choices', Brig Gen Robin Olds explained. 'He could bale out, hit that ridge of hills… Read More
The Tupolev Tu-4 was the Soviet copy of the four-engined B-29. In 1952, ten of them were transferred to China… Read More
This victory was claimed three-and-a-heft years after 'Sundowner' Lt Tony Nargi had bagged MiG-21 in an F-8C on Sep.… Read More
The incredible photo in this post features a MiG-17 fighter aircraft having a tail strike after his pilot completed a… Read More
The possibility of an enemy aerial attack on US Navy ships off the coast of North Vietnam became a reality… Read More
The Navy's F-4 and F-8 squadrons were the main `distributors of MiG parts' during the Vietnam War, but Lt Cdr… Read More
Suddenly, the MiG's canopy flew off, followed by the pilot. F-8 pilot Lt. Jerry Tucker watched incredulously as his 'kill'… Read More
Pilots flying the F-86H in the role of the MiG-17 found that the F-104 was the most challenging of all… Read More
On the night of Mar. 13, 1958, one Mig-17PF flown by Wang Guo Shan of the 18th Division was the… Read More
None of the Fiat G.91R fighter bombers were deployed in Angola until the Carnation Revolution - coup by leftist… Read More
Seldom emphasized about the second Skyraider-MiG encounter of the Vietnam War is the probability that three MiGs were destroyed by… Read More
Aboard Midway, the Spad's radio report was misunderstood as one of the Spads having been downed. Greathouse finally convinced the… Read More
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