American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller ...
Pardo’s Push” was a remarkable act of heroism during the Vietnam War when Captain John R. Pardo and Lieutenant Steve Wayne ...
For twelve brutal minutes in the skies over Vietnam, every desperate maneuver Duke Cunningham performed in his F-4J Phantom ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though the F-4 was eventually replaced by more capable F-15s and F-16s, these frames drew on lessons learned from the F-4s service history. Phantoms held their own up ...
The sister of Major San D. Francisco has new hope 57 years after a telegram was delivered to her family’s home in Burbank ...
From the skies of Vietnam to the streets of Marshalltown, the rare jet holds a coincidence with a lot of meaning to two ...
Since it arrived in Marshalltown and was placed at its current location along South 6th Street at the American Legion property over three decades ago, the F-4 Phantom Fighter Jet has served as a ...
From 1965 to 1970, local realtor Jim Bishop served as a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force flying the F-4C Phantom ...
Thorsen, who joined the Marine Corps in 1966 to avoid being drafted into the Army “and possibly end up in the infantry,” offers a straightforward, detailed Vietnam War memoir. He takes the reader ...
The F-4 Phantom II lives. But the life it leads today is an odd one. It still flies in other countries; in northern Iraq, for example, the Turks use it in combat with the Kurds. But in the United ...