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50 years later, Air Force pilot recalls Operation Babylift flight that killed 138
As the Vietnam War continued into the 1970s, pressure to get U.S. troops out of the fray was mounting. By 1973, troops ...
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The Only Pilot Who Downed an American Combat Aircraft After the Vietnam War
Vietnam War was the ... only one single American pilot is officially listed as downed by an enemy fighter. And even that took more than a decade to recognize as his downing was initially credited to a ...
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RAAF Huey Pilot John Thynne Had a Hilarious Exit from Vietnam
Thynne ended up flying seventy-one strike missions with No. 9 Squadron as a Huey helicopter pilot ... U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel) wasn’t the last Australian servicemember to leave Vietnam ...
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RAAF Huey Pilot John Thynne Had a Hilarious Exit from Vietnam
Thynne ended up flying seventy-one strike missions with No. 9 Squadron as a Huey helicopter pilot and ... the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). So then, a certain Aussie Vietnam War story caught ...