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South Vietnamese assumption of responsibility for tactical air control, a process in which FACs, trained in South Vietnam and flying newly acquired O–1s, played a key part—moved ahead during 1970.
3 sie 2016 · The following listing covers port visits for carriers (CV, CVA, CVAN, CVS) deployed to Vietnam during the conflict. Sources for the information are listed in the text. Compiled in August 2003...
At 1050 on 29 July, the Forrestal was steaming through the placid waters of the South China Sea preparing to send her second strike of the day toward North Vietnam. More than 20 aircraft crowded the ship’s aft flight deck with barely walking room between them.
Escape to U Taphao. In the final days of the Vietnam war, chaos and heroism converged in the effort to evacuate U.S.-supplied aircraft. Ralph Wetterhahn. January 1997. The A-37 Dragonfly was a...
4 cze 2014 · For their strikes in North Vietnam, Laos, and South Vietnam, attack aircraft dropped 250-, 500-, 1,000-, and 2,000-pound general purpose bombs, napalm bombs, and magnetic mines, and fired...
On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk.
These men had seen buddies cut in half by shrapnel from an incoming round, or watched a friend’s head explode from a bullet between the eyes that earned him a one-way ticket home in a body bag.
