In the 1950s, in the coldest days of the Cold War, the United States Navy put out calls to its defense-industrial base to design a light attack aircraft that could operate from smaller, post-World War ...

The US Navy commissioned a new warship earlier this month, a massive floating sea base named after a Vietnam war hero.

Lt. Col. Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission when his plane disappeared in a ...

Cmdr. Clyde Lassen piloted a dangerous rescue mission in 1968 to save two Naval aviators shot down in the jungle ...

Dr. Frank Butler was honored at the White House this month for his contributions to combat casualty care including broader ...

Major Thuy consoles a tearful Steve Hassett [Screen capture from the documentary Fragment of Memory] By 1966, Vietnam’s civil war had been raging for more than a decade, and US involvement had ...

South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl, who’d never seen the ocean before joining the Navy in the midst of the ... better known as the Hanoi Hilton – where US prisoners including future ...

Robert Kerrey led Navy SEAL teams in Vietnam and was later elected governor of Nebraska and then to the U.S. senate for a dozen years.

A plaque will be dedicated Sunday at Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial to honor the heroism of Vietnam veteran retired ...

MANILA: Coast guard and fishery officials from the Philippines, United States, Vietnam and Indonesia practised vessel ...