Vietnam

Wreaths Across America is paying tribute 63 years after the aircraft carrying 107 people went missing en route to Saigon on a secret reconnaissance mission.

Many will recall the tractor-pusher light twin from the film ‘Bat*21’.

In 1972, Navy A-4 combat aviator Chuck Sweeney was awarded three separate Distinguished Flying Cross medals for strikes against the North Vietnamese, all conducted in the span of a week.