Air America lost 280 employees–pilots, freight specialists and others–in Southeast Asia. “The first U.S. casualty of the Vietnam War was an Air America pilot,” said Smith.

U.S. troops in Vietnam typically served one-year tours of duty. Air America, though, was a civilian employer, so many of its workers stayed for years.

UT-Dallas was chosen by the Air America alumni group as the site of a Vietnam Wall-style plaque listing the names of the roughly 240 fallen employees. "Most people don't even know it occurred. It ...

For 10 years, Air America supplied a secret army in Laos that pinned down tens of thousands of communist guerrillas who otherwise would have joined the fighting in Vietnam. And by the time Air ...

Of his 14,000 total helicopter flight hours, 4,500 of them were for Air America. "The best pilots I ever worked with were in that Air America group," he said. "I was at the top of my game." ...

Inspiring America NBC News' Tom Brokaw sits down with two Vietnam veterans who are flying again thanks to the Air Force's Freedom Flyer program. May 1, 2017, 7:06 PM EDT / Updated May 1, 2017, 7: ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen Marco Rubio, R-Florida, has reintroduced legislation that would recognize employees of Air America — a supposedly private air transport company that, in reality ...

The CIA has released about 10,000 previously classified documents about Air America — an ostensibly private airline essentially owned and operated by the government body.

Newly Released CIA Documents Shine Light On Secretive Air America And Its 'airman' s Code&#039 ... These untold stories of the Vietnam Wa, he said, could help change Air America's image.