However, Vietnam, another piece on the Cold ... the B-52 would be a critical component of Cold War nuclear brinksmanship. The B-52 is an enormous aircraft. Measuring 159 feet (49 meters) with ...

Airman 1st Class Albert Moore, the last U.S. airman to down an enemy fighter as a B-52 tail gunner, was honored this month at ...

As an Amazon Associate, Military.com earns from qualifying purchases. It's no surprise that the Vietnam War and the veterans who served during it have been immortalized in some of the most iconic ...

One of the most moving war memorials, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial – or "the Wall," as it's commonly referred to – is a long black granite wall with the names of more than 58,000 Americans ...

The follies of violence and rhetoric in the Vietnam War and World War II have a lot of lessons for the leaders of Israel, Iran and the next American president. By Thomas E. Ricks Thomas E.

“I was in the very first raids into North Vietnam,” Alvarez said in an oral history recorded for the Library of Congress. He was the first captured American during the war who was sent to the ...

The B-52J Stratofortress, an upgraded version of the iconic B-52, represents a major modernization for the aging bomber. Key ...

The Chinese invasion occurred after Vietnam had secured a mutual defense treaty with the Soviet Union, a nuclear-armed great power. As Beijing explained it, the war was to “teach Vietnam a ...

— A B-52 tail gunner from the Vietnam War will be honored on Friday, Oct. 11 at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), where the very plane he achieved the last confirmed wartime kill by a tail ...

A complete listing of Veterans Day programs and other tributes follows: ...

The newly built Camp Billy Machen Memorial Park will be dedicated, and an air show featuring a B-52 bomber will take place ... when vintage military vehicles, Vietnam War-era helicopters and ...