Over a single 12-month tour, Paden logged 1,800 flight hours as a door gunner, crew chief and flight engineer on one of Vietnam's most indispensable and vulnerable aircraft, the CH-47, also known as ...
Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of ...
In early 1964, deep inside Convair’s San Diego facilities, a small group of engineers began work in near-total secrecy on a new kind of aircraft tailored for the growing conflict in Vietnam. The ...
Out of 7,013 Hueys deployed to Vietnam, 3,305 were destroyed—a staggering 48% loss rate. The iconic "sound of our war"[...] ...