The National Interest now takes a look at those “Fab Final Five” (to speak) fighter jocks of the Vietnam War. Before we delve into the American air aces’ individual bios, a note about the ...

Operation Linebacker I was the venue by which both the USN and USAF produced their first aces (five or more enemy aircraft destroyed in air-to-air combat) of the Vietnam War: ...

Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the F4F-3 Wildcat pilot whose five aerial victories in defense of the carrier Lexington on Feb. 20, 1942, made him both the Navy’s first World War II fighter ace and ...