James Mattis

Nightwatch: The Air Force’s Doomsday Jet

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s midsummer 1964 and the unthinkable has just happened. Radar picket stations frantically clog up the airwaves with congruently dire messages. The USSR has launched [read more...]

A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer Was Responsible for One of the Craziest Carrier Landings of All Time

by Ian D'Costa in In History

The early weeks of April, 1975 found the USS Midway steaming towards the coast of South Vietnam to link up with a number of other warships including the USS Coral Sea and the USS Enterprise of Task Force 76, standing by to support Operation Frequent Wind, a mass evacuation of all American nationals and as many South Vietnamese military personnel [read more...]