On 27 April 1972, two USN F-4B Phantoms from USS Coral Sea were tasked with attacking targets over North Vietnam. Heavy cloud ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

Pardo’s Push” was a remarkable act of heroism during the Vietnam War when Captain John R. Pardo and Lieutenant Steve Wayne ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A historic F-4 Phantom fighter jet used in the Vietnam War arrived in Orlando Tuesday. The fighter jet will be restored and used as a centerpiece in Joe Kittinger Park. U.S. Air Force ...

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 ...

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 their 100 mile route is dotted with North Vietnam's ...

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II — the successor to the late-1940s vintage McDonnell FH-1 Phantom — made her maiden flight in 1958. The F-4 ended up becoming the mainstay fighter-bomber of the U.S ...

If you thought modern combat planes use only a handful of Laser Guided Bombs you were wrong. On Oct. 2, several assets belonging to the Hellenic Armed Forces attended the final phase of the national ...

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 ...

Bruce Parsons, born April 1, 1942, a U.S. Air Force veteran who bravely flew two tours of duty in Vietnam as a Phantom F-4 pilot before ending his military career as a Captain, passed away surrounded ...