Robin Olds entered the world on July 14, 1922, in Honolulu, Hawaii, destined for the skies. His father, Major General Robert Olds, was a pioneering aviator and close associate of General Billy ...
But it was his Vietnam service—more specifically during Operation Bolo on January 2, 1967—that would cement his status as a brilliant and unstoppable aerial warrior across two wars that took place two ...
In the skies of World War II, the P-38 Lightning was a revolutionary predator, but it hid a terrifying secret known as "compressibility." As Captain Robin Olds dove to save a fellow pilot, his ...