The U.S. Air Force was heavily deployed during the Vietnam War. The first bombing raids against North Vietnam occurred in…
During the Korean War, which began in June 1950, the Far East Air Forces were among the first units to…
In practice, the Army Air Forces became virtually independent of the Army during World War II, but its leaders wanted…
President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the lead, calling for a vastly enlarged air force based on long-range strategic bombing. Organizationally…
With the stroke of a pen, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 on Sept. 18,…
Robert Hite was born in March 1920 in Odell, Texas. His family were farmers hit hard by the Great Depression…
Anthony Clement McAuliffe was born in Washington, D.C. in July 1898. He attended West Virginia University in 1916, but when…
Born in Monroe, La., in 1924, John W. Collens III eagerly awaited his 18th birthday when he could finally enlist in the Army….
William Morris Hoge was born in Boonville, Mo., in January 1894 on the campus of the Kemper Military School, where…
Marine Corps Maj. Douglas Thomas Jacobson was one of more than two-dozen men whose valor earned him the Medal of…
David Haskell Hackworth was born in November 1930 in Santa Monica, Calif. He joined the U.S. Merchant Marines in 1945 and then…
In his early years, hardship followed William B. Colgan. The onset of the Great Depression was followed by the death…
Thomas Redgate was born in 1926 in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton, Mass. At age 17, he left high school…