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Amos Eslieb, left, and Frank Kattner show off the dollar bill they ripped in half on Dec. 18, 1968, while serving in Da Nang, Vietnam. The two Nesquehoning-area natives served in the Air Force during ...
A Communist offensive 70 miles south of the U.S. Da Nang Air Base killed or wounded 600 to 700 government troops, military authorities estimated Monday.
Nguyen Thi Hoai An, Deputy Director of the Da Nang Department of Tourism, stated that following the success of the recent direct route from Kazakhstan's Almaty to Da Nang, the new connection to ...
SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam.
The Air Force provided statistics on how many of each kind of aircraft it had in 2024, as well as the percentage of time each aircraft was ready to carry out its mission. Those stats were first ...
Central Asia carrier Air Astana will launch a new direct route from Almaty to Da Nang in Vietnam starting on 4 June 2025. Da Nang flights will run twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, on ...
Navy’s helmet for the Army-Navy Game won the 2023 helmet of the year award, while Air Force’s uniform won the military appreciation uniform of the year award.
Curtailing the Air Force’s F-35A buy or T-7 Red Hawk trainer program would also be a mistake, Penney argued, but the service could delay its efforts to develop a next-generation refueling tanker.
In late December 1965, Bill flew to Saigon and then to Da Nang Air Force Base (AFB). He lived on base, but was transported to a marine base, about 5 miles outside Da Nang, to work as a radar ...
Hawk’s heroics continued when he dragged several people from a fiery C121 aircraft crash in Da Nang before it exploded. These efforts earned him the Air Force Commendation Medal for “outstanding ...