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A wedding ring in a muddy pond
More than 50 years after being shot down, a Navy pilot is honored for his sacrifice.
By Thomas R. Messick, Vietnam Magazine
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‘Speed forward, fight close and hit hard’ — How China won the Battle of the Paracel Islands
With U.S. troops gone from South Vietnam, China made a move at sea in 1974. The ripple effects are still being felt.
By Carl O. Shuster, Vietnam Magazine
Remember that time we forgot a navy and had to go back and get it?
“We forgot ’em.”
By Don North, Vietnam Magazine
This is what happened when an Air Force pilot got assigned to a Navy carrier
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying Douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
By Chester Peterson Jr., Aviation History Magazine
McCain on his time as POW: ‘I fell in love with my country’
On Oct. 26, 1967, a missile the size of a telephone pole blew the wing off of John McCain’s Skyhawk dive bomber.
Air Force honors 12 airmen who died defending top-secret outpost in Laos during Vietnam War
A monument was unveiled at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, to mark the 50th anniversary of 12 airmen who died defending Lima Site 85, a classified outpost in Laos that was overrun by North Vietnamese fighters in 1968.
By Kyle Rempfer