Downing, 33, was piloting one of two aircraft in a nighttime armed reconnaissance mission over what was then known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on Sept. 5, 1967. While the two planes were ...

the number of U.S. aces in Vietnam is higher than the actual number of planes that they downed, a statistical oddity that some may find confusing at first. Contrast this with, say, World War II ...

During World War II, the Luftwaffe's BF 110 aircraft and ME-110 fighter planes ... when it was featured on the F-51D Mustang. The Vietnam War even included several examples of the shark mouth ...

The aircraft U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing, 33, of Columbus, Wisconsin, was in went down in September 1967. A U.S. Air Force pilot from Wisconsin, who was killed in 1967 during the ...