The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries.

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

It's November 1971. and American air raids against North Vietnam are suspended. But, the war is still far from being over. Communist North keeps sending large quantities of men and materiel south by ...

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 “Fishbed,” one of the Cold War’s most iconic and widely produced supersonic fighter jets (appx 11 ...

Most of China's military equipment - estimated to have cost Pakistan more than $20 billion - underperformed, missed their ...

Bernard Francis Rupinski was named to the Edwardsville Little League All-Star team that won the district championship in August 1955.

But last month’s fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War was not for most Americans a normal anniversary, worthy of normal celebration. It received scant attention in the U.S. media ...

One of the most striking images taken during the Vietnam War may have been attributed to the wrong photographer. Back in 1973, World Press Photo selected the Associated Press’ Nick Ut’s “The ...

Now, ten years later, that eagerness to forget what one psychologist calls “as trau­matic a wrenching of this country as the Civil War” keeps thousands of Vietnam veterans trapped in a war for their ...

American prisoners of war will finally come home – to a bitterly divided country. THE VIETNAM WAR, a 10-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, returns to ...

The two articles were reported 10 years after the end of the Vietnam War for San Francisco’s Tenderloin Times, the community newspaper that I edited during the 1980s. The neighborhood was then (as it ...