The fastest man alive
On October 14, 1947, Air Force Captain Charles “Chuck” Yeager became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. In this May 1948 photo, Yeager sits in...
The flying ambulance
A Fairchild Aviation C-123 Provider approaches the airfield at Bien Hoa Air Force Base in Vietnam in 1966. This troop and cargo transport could also be used to...
The General concurs
U.S. Air Force General George S. Brown, commanding the U.S. 7th Air Force, sent this memorandum to the Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam on October...
U-2 cover story
President Eisenhower was told that the U-2 spy plane had a self-destruct mechanism that would prevent the Soviets from discovering its true purpose. This plan was...
U.S.S. Ticonderoga
The U.S.S. Ticonderoga carries a deck full of aircraft on May 14, 1964. The Ticonderoga was built during World War II and modified over the years to...
Valor second to none
Lieutenant Colonel Richard P. Schumann describes in detail the rescue of three Combat Controllers by the pilots of "a slow, un-armed, highly vulnerable transport...