But it was his Vietnam service—more specifically during Operation Bolo on January 2, 1967—that would cement his status as a brilliant and unstoppable aerial warrior across two wars that took place two ...
The U.S. military and its command over the skies of Vietnam by late 1966 was strong, yet not complete. This was evidenced on Dec. 2, 1966, a day referred to as Black Friday. On this day, the Air Force ...
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Operation Bolo: Vietnam War’s Cleverest Air Ambush
Operation Bolo was a brilliantly conceived deception designed to counter the North Vietnamese MiG-21 threat during Operation Rolling Thunder. U.S. F-4 Phantom IIs disguised themselves as slower, less ...
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The Deceptive Air Ambush That Destroyed 7 MiG-21s
The year is 1967, the Vietnam war is in full swing and an aggressive aerial bombing campaign known as Rolling Thunder is underway. Rolling Thunder is meant to bring the communist North Vietnamese ...
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