As I noted in my recent story on the passing of Col. Perry Dahl (USAF, ret.) at the ripe old age of 101, American fighter ...
Combat aviation aces—defined as those who have destroyed five or more enemy aircraft in aerial combat—are literally a dying breed. Regarding U.S. fighter pilots in particular, as of December 2022, ...
Colonel Tomb was supposedly a double ace of the VPAF who scored anywhere from twelve to fourteen air-to-air kills against American warplanes. As the saying goes, “The first casualty of war is truth.” ...
Perry Dahl, one of the last living WWII fighter aces, died Dec. 2, 2024 ... he served on the Air Force staff at the Pentagon, then went to Vietnam as commander of the 19th Tactical Air Support ...
Therefore, the number of U.S. aces in Vietnam is higher than the actual ... Contrast this with, say, World War II, where two fighter pilots would converge with their gunfire upon a single enemy ...