The National Interest now takes a look at those “Fab Final Five” (to speak) fighter jocks of the Vietnam War. Before we delve into the American air aces’ individual bios, a note about the ...

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.” ...

When Joe Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart AFL -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle, in December ...

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 ...