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He brought a burning C-130 home so his wounded crew could live. April 15, 1972. An Loc was surrounded and starving for ammo. Capt. William R. Caldwell and the crew of C-130E Spare 617 went in low with 27,000 pounds...
In 1967, while leading his Marine team to scout an enemy position, Capers was ambushed by superior forces. Claymore mines and machine-gun fire cut down his men. Wounded by shrapnel and bullets, he refused evacuation, dosed himself with morphine, and...
Rebel, ace, and inspirational pilot who shaped the F-15’s future. In 1963 Baharav joined the IAF academy and flew the Dassault Mirage IIIC, the top fighter of its day, scoring most of his MiG-21 kills in it. He saw that...
Dassault: The Birth of the Mirage Marcel Bloch, born to Jewish parents in France in 1892, rose to become a world leader in aviation, especially in France. He attended the same school as Mikhail Gurevich and began his career in...
America’s Russian MiG Squadron The Vietnam War revealed serious gaps in U.S. pilots’ dogfighting skills, leading to hundreds of aircraft lost to Soviet jets. To close that gap, a program was created to acquire Soviet MiGs for realistic training....
The MiG-21 falls into U.S. hands In 1966, at the height of the Cold War, Capt. Munir Redfa—an Assyrian Christian in the Iraqi Air Force—defected to the West with one of the most sought-after aircraft of the era: a brand-new,...
