Wings Over Vietnam: The Missions

High technology did not play the major part in Southeast Asia that may have been expected. Rather, it was back to basics, the guerrilla activity of th...

Drawing on its first experiments with helicopters in Korea, the Army in Vietnam came to rely almost entirely on the helicopter for medical evacuation....

Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and thus represented a major expansion of U.S. inv...

One of the most unsung heroes of the Southeast Asian War were Winch Men. Lowered from large camouflage helicopters into the tropical foliage, these "G...

Benign aircraft has always proved useful for modification to the military. During the Southeast Asian War, such benign cargo planes were modified into...

In March 1965, U.S. air strikes into North Vietnam began. In April, the first dogfights took place. As the fighting grew into a major conflict, the ai...

The constant threat to all American aircraft missions was the Russian built missile known as SAM, which employed various levels of sophistication. One...

Not since World War II had bombers been employed in an operation of this scope. All previous air campaigns, including the initial Linebacker carried o...