A Billings man who served on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany during the Vietnam War might have been the last American to see Navy aviator Lt. Cdr. John McCain before McCain ...

USS Oriskany suffered the highest loss rate of any US aircraft carriers in Vietnam War during its 1967-68 tour. It lost half of its airplanes and a third of its pilots. One of the pilots who was ...

Memorial Day became an official holiday in 1971, but it started in 1868 as Decoration Day. It began as an effort to remember ...

and Laura Annie (Dalton) Strom. Ron was a veteran of the Vietnam War serving with the US Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. Prior to his retirement, he was a lineman with Northeast ...

A youthful Oriskany softball squad has been figuring things out as they go. With no seniors and just three juniors, the Skyhawks are one of the youngest teams in Section III. Despite some tough ...

Buang-Ly knew his life and the lives of his wife, and their five young children, ages 1 through 6, were in danger as the North Vietnamese moved on Saigon, and South Vietnam − the United States ...

April 30, 2025 marked 50 years since the pivotal moment that ended the Vietnam War: the fall of Saigon. In a new documentary, WCCO reporter Pauleen Le and photojournalist Art Phillips share ...

The massively popular “USS Callister” episode of Netflix’s “Black Mirror” from 2017 was originally going to be made into a full series, but instead it became a sequel that was released ...

The threat of 46 percent levies, among the highest for any country, is rattling Vietnam’s factory managers and workers, as well as thousands of exporters. By Alexandra Stevenson and Tung Ngo ...

Vietnam has officially lodged diplomatic protests against both China and the Philippines over recent activities that violate its sovereignty in the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands, specifically concerning ...

“It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,” said Byron Jones, a former Army captain who led a platoon of OH-6 Cayuse scout helicopters in Vietnam. “I wish they’d let me fly it.