In May 1968, 1st/Lt. Robin Bartlett, originally ordered to the 101st Airborne, was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), a helicopter combat assault unit.

From Shiny Fighter to Swamp Warrior Initially designed as a supersonic fighter-bomber capable of nuclear delivery, the F ...

On Nov. 7, 1968, Bud Gardner, who had spent months focused on how to stay alive in Vietnam, was “blown up,” as he describes ...

The thing looked like a classic trap often used by MiGs earlier in the Vietnam War. With their older Phantoms lacking look-down capability, with low overcast and low fuel state, Phantoms would indeed ...

Looking back in history, here were some of the happenings in the Cookeville area for the week of July 19-25, as recorded in the pages of the Herald-Citizen: ...