“The first time here, you see flak bursting around your aircraft and uh not like that you’re gonna think, this is for real.” Navy Captain John Ensch’s words, spoken across the jungles of Vietnam, ...

The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...

A look at what made the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II so special.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. It's December 1966, and a U.S. pilot is leading a squadron of six F-4 Phantoms on a dangerous bombing mission over North Vietnam. Every mile of ...