A member of the USS Kitty Hawk’s ordnance crew moves bombs to planeside off the coast of Vietnam in April, 1966.

Samuel Grimes was born in Newport, Arkansas, to James Samuel and Ethel Fay Grimes on Dec. 11, 1947. The year was 1965 and Sam ...

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...

England’s ‘wingless wonders’ were almost impregnable on their way to the final. It took until the 82nd minute of their semi-final against Portugal before they conceded a goal – and even that was from ...

On 21 June 1966, a rescue mission over Vietnam turned into a fierce aerial showdown between the nimble MiG-17 and the powerful F-8 Crusader. What began as an attempt to save a downed pilot exploded ...