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The U-2 that took off from USS Ranger carrier and spied over French Polynesian nuclear test site at Mururoa atoll
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1+ day, 7+ hour ago (744+ words) One shot, one kill!...
Bat 21 Bravo: The Golf-Course Code That Saved Iceal Hambleton
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (680+ words) by Connor Kerr | Oct 10, 2026 | Histoire et légendes, Aviation militaire | 0 comments Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton was 53 years old, a navigator with a lifetime in the Air Force behind him and a love of golf. On Easter Sunday, 2 April 1972, he was also…...
Navy aces Randy Cunningham and Willie Driscoll scored their first aerial kill in first US air engagement against North Vietnamese fighter in almost 2 years
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (274+ words) Moments later, Cunningham spotted what he initially identified as two A-7s three miles away, heading north through a canyon at 500 feet. “It dawned on me that those two birds were in afterburner, and the A-7 doesn’t have a ‘burner!’” The “A…...
56 years ago, 3 guys gave tired Vietnam veteran a ride home [I Know a Story column]
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Who Is Tim Kennedy? Former UFC Fighter and Green Beret Wounded in Deadly Congo Ambush
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (585+ words) Former UFC fighter and U.S. Army Green Beret Tim Kennedy was shot three times in the leg during a Sept. 17 ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo involving security personnel linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to three sources…...
Agent Orange was quiet but deadly
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NTF-ELCAC credits government development programs for decline in insurgency
3+ day, 47+ min ago (369+ words) The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has attributed the declining influence of communist insurgents in rural communities to the government’s continued implementation of development and peace-building programs in formerly conflict-affected areas. In a statement Friday,…...
Attack Squadron 153: The Cold War To Vietnam Journey Of The Blue Tail Flies
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