“We were blessed; we were Americans.” Stratton earned his pilot’s wings in 1957 and served in Vietnam. He was captured there after being forced to eject his aircraft and spent 2,251 days in ...

Large swaths of land in Southeast Asia are littered with unexploded bombs dropped by American forces during the Vietnam War. By Sui-Lee Wee and Anton L. Delgado The Vietnam War ended half a ...

Between them, Vietnam and VietJet employ thousands of pilots, locally and from overseas. Vietnam Airlines has a fleet of 93 aircraft, with a century not being too far away. They fly to 66 destinations ...

This will not stand.” The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black pilots in the U.S. military, who got their name from their training facility in Tuskegee, Alabama. The Airmen consisted of 15,000 ...

The US Air Force will continue to teach about its first black pilots, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, in its basic training, following a review about what to prohibit under President Donald Trump's ...

The move comes on the heels of the Air Force confirming Saturday that course instruction about the Tuskegee Airmen − the more than 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics and cooks in the segregated Arm ...

Lassen is one of only 3,526 Medal of Honor recipients, and one of just three Navy pilots to receive the decoration during the Vietnam War. He is the 32nd Medal of Honor recipient with a plaque on ...

The Mitchell Institute recommends retaining experienced fighter pilots from Air Force Reserve components like the Air National Guard, shown here at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, in 2024.

Following widespread concern, the U.S. Air Force has reversed its decision to remove a training video highlighting the achievements of the distinguished World War II combat pilots, the Tuskegee ...

Email: [email protected] The U.S. Air Force removed training courses with videos of its Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP ... and Vietnam, passed away in 2022 ...