However, during the Vietnam War, the last conflict to produce U. S. fighter aces, the one USAF pilot, the two USAF navigators / weapon systems officers ( who were later retrained as USAF pilots ), the one USN Naval Aviator and the one USN Naval Flight Officer / radar intercept officer to achieve this distinction were eventually awarded the Air Force Cross and Navy Cross, respectively, in addition to Silver Stars previously awarded for earlier aerial kills.

The last of the purpose-designed day fighters were the original F-16 and the YF-17 that competed for the Lightweight Fighter contract which had the goal of providing the USAF with an inexpensive day fighter that could be purchased in great numbers to establish air superiority.

This was the last operational use of the F-4 Phantom by the USAF.

The 6110th USAF Hospital remained open until 30 June 1958 when the last Americans left Nagoya Airfield and it was returned to Japanese control.

), last Enlisted Pilot in the USAF.

The 58th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron was the last squadron in the USAF to use the WB-57F ; in the spring of 1972, the decision was made to transfer 12 F-Troop aircraft, WB-57Fs and WB-57Cs, to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona for storage at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center.

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On the day of the last launch to begin the mission, with the shuttle Endeavour ready to carry the crew to space, an insane USAF general driven by shallow militarism and hatred for space exploration tries to shoot down the shuttle during lift off.

That was the last USAF aircraft to depart France.

The last USAF aircraft left South Vietnam at the end of January 1973, and the final group of Americans was released from North Vietnam on 29 March 1973.

On 17 April, the USAF flew its last mission over Laos, working a handful of targets requested by the Laotian government.

In an unsuccessful effort to measure lunar X-ray emission, the USAF launched the last Nike-Asp on Sep 27 1960 at 22: 10 GMT to an apogee of 233 km.

This would be the last USAF fixed-wing aircraft to leave Tan Son Nhut.

Republic F-105F-1-RE Thunderchief 63-8299 heading to the boneyard, the last F-105 in USAF service.

Purvis and Silas Pettigrew were the last to leave.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

These were the last words he ever uttered.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

They were, in effect his last testament to non-objective art.

The last two were a red and a black chow.

The bills were principally for hospitalization and doctors' fees during the last years of his life, and when he died he owed in the main only current doctor's bills.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.

It should be easier to plug two spots than it was to fill the wholesale lots that were open last year, but so far it hasn't worked that way.

Feelers were put out last year to the City of Warwick, as reported in your newspapers, suggesting investigation of a common rubbish disposal area to service the Potowomut and Cowessett areas of Warwick along with East Greenwich.

In the last war Russia lost more than ten million killed and its lands and factories were devastated.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

A weekly newspaper reported a local romance: `` and the couple were married last Saturday, thus ending a friendship which began in their schooldays ''.

This program culminated in the proofs of the Weil conjectures, the last of which was settled by Grothendieck's student Pierre Deligne in the early 1970s after Grothendieck had largely withdrawn from mathematics.

The last Guinean troops were withdrawn in 1974.

* September 26 – Vietnam announces that it has withdrawn the last of its troops from the State of Cambodia, ending an 11-year occupation.

Conventional forces were being withdrawn ; the last SEAL advisor left Vietnam in March 1973 and Vietnam fell to the communists in 1975.

The last Regular Army units were not withdrawn until the Dockyard itself closed in the 1950s.

By agreement, that last Israel element was withdrawn by 1600 GMT on 8 March and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Sharm al Shaikh area was effected at the same time.

The last Regular Army units were not withdrawn until the Dockyard itself closed in the 1950s.

A public ' last A stock rail tour ' is planned on 29 September 2012 and all trains are expected to be withdrawn by 14 October 2012.

What is clear is that at some point in the mid-7th century, probably in the late 630s and 640s, the Empire's field armies were withdrawn to Anatolia, the last major contiguous territory remaining to the Empire, and assigned to the districts that became known as the themes.

The last of the airline's long-serving Boeing 767s were withdrawn from service on 27 September.

The last of the craft was withdrawn from service in October 2000 and Hoverspeed itself ceased operations in November 2005.

Autocar remained a part of Volvo until 2000, when the trademark was withdrawn from the market, and was subsequently sold to Grand Vehicle Works together with the Xpeditor low cab forward heavy duty product, which remains in production to this day under the Autocar badge, the last vestige of what was once America's leading commercial vehicle producer.

The first subway route to be withdrawn was route 31, on 1 October 1950, with the remaining two routes, 33 and 35, being withdrawn after service on Saturday, 5 April 1952, the last public services being ' specials ' on the Sunday, shortly after midnight.

The Class 460s were gradually withdrawn from service from 2010 with the last being withdrawn in September 2012.

1976 saw the withdrawal of the Paris – Athens direct service, and in 1977, the Direct Orient Express was withdrawn completely, with the last Paris – Istanbul service running on May 19 of that year.

Osho had withdrawn from public speaking and lecturing during the upheaval, having entered a period of " silence " that would last until November 1984, and at the commune videos of his discourses were played to audiences instead.

SASR Squadrons rotated through Vietnam on one year long deployments until the last Squadron was withdrawn in October 1971.

With the earlier withdrawal of the 5p and shilling coins, the 10p was the last of the " historical " coin sizes to be withdrawn.

In 1870 the last British troops were withdrawn from New Zealand ; this was in line with both the " self-reliance " policy of Premier Frederick Weld and the Cardwell reforms of the Army in Britain.

The 196th Brigade was reconstituted as a separate brigade and remained in Vietnam until 29 June 1972, the last major combat unit to be withdrawn.

The last steam locomotive was withdrawn in 1975, in 1986 the maximum speed on the railways was raised to 160 km / h, and in 1992 the Madrid-Seville high speed line opened, beginning the process of building a nationwide high speed network.

NIR's last steam locomotives were withdrawn in 1970.

Although the Brooklyn Horsemen disbanded after its last NFL game, the team's franchise was never withdrawn or cancelled by the league.