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This Medal of Honor recipient jumped on a live flare to save his crew
On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...
MILITARY MATTERS: Judge John Allen Remembered for Breaking Barriers In Muscogee County Courts and as a Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam War
Judge the Honorable John Allen was known by many for his leadership in the courtroom - but he served his country long before ...
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52 Years After a US Spy Plane Was Shot Down over Laos, a Family Still Fights for Answers: Did the Crew All Perish or Were Half of Them Left Behind?
The peace treaty was signed. Prisoners of war were coming home. The last thing America needed was an international incident.
Read an Exclusive Behind-the-Curtain Look at Military Leadership In New Memoir From Decorated Career of Air Force Officer “Mr. Targets”
Charleston, SC, Feb. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- merica’s involvement in the Vietnam War has been controversial since even before America’s ...
Subject of iconic photo from Vietnam War will speak at veteran dinner in Ashland.
Kim Phuc Phan Thi, known as “The Napalm Girl” in the famous 1972 Associated Press Vietnam photograph, will be the featured ...
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Remains of dozens of WWII, Vietnam War troops brought to Hawaii for forensic identification
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s forensic lab in Hawaii has begun analyzing dozens of human remains retrieved from Laos and the Philippines in recent weeks in hopes of identifying U.S. service ...
'Crucible 1972': JU prof's book features two Vietnam War Navy aviators from Jacksonville
Vietnam experiences of Navy vets from Florida helped Keith Saliba tell his "Crucible" story of America at war in the pivotal ...
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Congress Asks Trump to Award Medal of Honor to Trailblazing Marine Vietnam War Veteran
Nearly 50 lawmakers wrote a letter to President Trump last week urging him to award the Medal of Honor to a Marine veteran ...
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How Tuskegee Airman helped save Air Force ROTC in Capitol Region
by Carl Willis TOPICS: WASHINGTON (7News) — With a controversial war raging in Vietnam in the ... at the university in 1972 and joined the Air Force ROTC in 1974; both men had dreams of becoming ...
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War veterans honored at this year's San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo
For another official guest for the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, Jesus Perez, he spent nearly three years in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. In 1958, Perez joined the U.S. Army for 22 ...