A Connecticut man came home from Vietnam with lasting physical and mental scars. Now, 50 years later, he's still dealing with ...

The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. Nguyen Thanh ...

John Callahan figured that if he died in Vietnam, it would at least be in heroic fashion while fighting for his country. Callahan, a Hartford native, enlisted two weeks before his 17th birthday ...

Bulky 'C-123 providers' spray chemical defoliant over Vietnam in 1968. (Right) Nguyen Ba Quy Phuoc, 14, attends a physio ...

- Flying a bare 100 feet above the jungle hills west of Hue, 5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals ...

5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals used burn off heavy foliage hiding enemy infiltrations routes and base camps. The aircraft are ...

But the Sea Dart was not the only hydro-ski aircraft of the 1950s. Russian-born designer Michael Stroukoff had created the Fairchild C-123 military transport and worked on the same blown-wing ...

A model originally developed as a land-based aircraft, the P-2 Neptune was never really designed to serve on aircraft carriers. The aircraft never made a landing on an aircraft ca ...