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Why Vietnam Wants to Buy the F-16 Fighting Falcon from America
America’s relations with Vietnam have been astounding, considering the violent history between the two countries in the 1960s ...
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It was longer than any bombing campaign during World War II or any other war that came before; it remains the longest bombing ...
Operation Babylift crash survivor still searching for answers 50 years later
On April 4, 1975, the first plane transport of Operation Babylift — the Vietnam War-era evacuation effort to bring Vietnamese ...
The untold story of the last Australian plane out of Saigon
On the 50th anniversary of an Anzac Day like no other, the last Australian air force pilot to leave Vietnam speaks for the ...
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Possums on patrol: 161 Independent Reconnaissance Flight during the Vietnam War
The Possums in front of one of their planes used for reconnaissance missions, Vung Tau Special Zone, Vietnam, c 1965-75. Photograph by Denis Stanley Gibbons. P04669.186 In 1965, an army aviation unit, ...
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'Operation Babylift' Fall of Saigon plane crash survivors reunite 50 years later
WASHINGTON (7News) — It is the 50th anniversary of the deadly Operation Babylift plane crash that happened during the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975. President Gerald Ford ordered the ...
China’s Leader Courts Vietnam as Trade War With the U.S. Mounts
Xi Jinping is in Southeast Asia to build bonds with countries that also face U.S. tariffs and have come under pressure from ...
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9 Key Moments From the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, drawn-out conflict ... North Vietnam’s sizable arsenal of anti-aircraft artillery made Operation Rolling Thunder one of the most dangerous American aerial military ...