Roy Knight waved goodbye to his father as he headed off to war. On Thursday ... plane is carrying the remains of an American pilot shot down over Vietnam in 1967. His remains were only recently ...
Among the speakers in Detroit was 27-year-old Capt. Ernest Sachs of the First Marine Division, who had flown 725 combat missions as a helicopter pilot in northern South Vietnam between August 1966 ...
MiG-17: The Soviet Fighter That Surprised U.S. Pilots in Vietnam The MiG-17 ... it redeemed itself nearly a decade later during the Vietnam War. By contrast, guns were a feature conspicuous ...