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 ...

Peering out the hangar doors at the Chico Air Museum is a bright yellow 1943 Fairchild PT-26, the kind of plane that gave ...

Donald Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft during a night mission ... ones who died while serving their country in World War II. Downing was piloting an F-4C Phantom II aircraft ...

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 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 ...