Wings Over Vietnam: The Missions (2002)

The FACs
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October 20, 2002 • 45m

High technology did not play the major part in Southeast Asia that may have been expected. Rather, it was back to basics, the guer...Read more

Dust Off
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October 21, 2002 • 45m

Drawing on its first experiments with helicopters in Korea, the Army in Vietnam came to rely almost entirely on the helicopter for...Read more

Rolling Thunder
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October 22, 2002 • 45m

Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and thus represented a major e...Read more

The Jolly Greens
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October 23, 2002 • 45m

One of the most unsung heroes of the Southeast Asian War were Winch Men. Lowered from large camouflage helicopters into the tropic...Read more

Spookies, Spectres, and Shadows
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April 6, 2004 • 45m

Benign aircraft has always proved useful for modification to the military. During the Southeast Asian War, such benign cargo plane...Read more

MiG Killers
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April 13, 2004 • 45m

In March 1965, U.S. air strikes into North Vietnam began. In April, the first dogfights took place. As the fighting grew into a ma...Read more

Wild Weasels
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May 4, 2004 • 45m

The constant threat to all American aircraft missions was the Russian built missile known as SAM, which employed various levels of...Read more

Linebacker II
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May 11, 2004 • 45m

Not since World War II had bombers been employed in an operation of this scope. All previous air campaigns, including the initial ...Read more